Hacker discloses vulnerabilities in dozens of Military and Pentagon websites

A hacker with handle name !White! today disclose SQL injection vulnerabilities in dozens of Military, United Nation and Pentagon domains. SQL Injection is one of the many web attack mechanisms used by hackers to steal data from organizations. Through a Pastebin note hacker announce more details...

Android MDK Trojan Found Lurking in 11K Apps, Using AES Encryption

Android.Troj.mdk, the Trojan botnet that last week was reported to have infected one million devices, mainly Chinese Android phones, is a new variant of a separate strain of malware, Backscript, researchers say. Both variants of malware use the same certificate to sign APKs, yet Troj.mdk MDK uses...

'Terrific Employee' Fired After Losing USB Drive Containing Medical Records

A Maine-based company announced Thursday it fired an otherwise exemplary employee who dowloaded medical data onto a jump drive and then lost the device while traveling between Salt Lake City, Denver and Washington, D.C. The unidentified woman’s termination follows yesterday’s disclosure of a data...

New Version of Shylock Malware Spreading Through Skype

There is a new version of the Shylock malware that is now capable of spreading through Skype. The new version is spreading mainly in the U.K., Europe and the U.S. and is playing off the fact that Microsoft is about to kill its Messenger application in favor of Skype. The new version of Shylock ha...

Operation Red October : Cyber Espionage campaign against many Governments

A new sensational discovered has been announced by Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research & Analysis Team result of an investigation after several attacks hit computer networks of various international diplomatic service agencies. A new large scale cyber-espionage operation has been discovered, named Re...

Rocra Espionage Malware Campaign Uncovered After Five Years of Activity

For five years, it hid in the weeds of networks used by Eastern European diplomats, government employees and scientific research organizations, stealing data and infecting more machines in an espionage campaign rivaling Flame and others of its ilk. The campaign, called Rocra or Red October by...

Facebook for Android information leakage

Malicious app can steal private files...

Malware Spies on, Cheats at Korean Card Games

Three pieces of spyware are deploying as many methods to infect and monitor players of Korean card game applications in order to cheat, steal, and siphon off sensitive personal and financial data. According to the Microsoft Malware Protection Center MMPC, whoever is responsible for these pieces o...

Stabuniq Trojan rapidly stealing data from US banks

--- Trojan.Stabuniq geographic distribution by unique IP address Security researchers from Symantec have identified a new Trojan that appears to be targeting financial institutions. Dubbed Trojan.Stabuniq, the malware has been collecting information from infected systems potentially for the...

Korean Cyber espionage attack Targets Russia

Ask an expert on cyber espionage and he for sure he will speak of China, the most active and advanced country in this sector, this time a clamorous campaign apparently originated from Korea has been discovered. Security company FireEye collected evidences of a cyber espionage campaign, named...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1665-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu 12.10 : unity-firefox-extension vulnerability (USN-1665-1)

It was discovered that unity-firefox-extension bypassed the same origin policy checks in certain circumstances. If a user were tricked into opening a malicious page, an attacker could exploit this to steal confidential data or perform other security-sensitive operations. Note that Tenable Network...

Samsung smart TV vulnerability allow attacker to read storage remotely

ReVuln Ltd. , a small security company headed by Donato Ferrante and Luigi Auriemma, post a video that demonstrates that how attacks can gain root on the appliances. Samsung Smart TV contain a vulnerability which allows remote attackers to swipe data from attached storage devices. In this...

Dockster Mac Malware Targets Dalai Lama Website Through Flashback Vulnerability

Mac malware targeting Tibetan supporters is being served on a website connected to the Dalai Lama. The Dockster Trojan, discovered by researchers at F-Secure, exploits the same Java vulnerability as the virulent Flashback Trojan that hit more than 600,000 OS X users earlier this year. F-Secure...

Hardware based malware steals contacts from all mobile platforms using only the Audio Jack!

Indian Security Research Atul Alex presented his surprise paper at the International Malware Conference, MalCon on what can be termed as the onset of next generation of hardware based malware that can target mobile devices irrespective of Platforms. Typically, one of the largest challenges for...

IAEA Server Breached, Scientists' Email Addresses Spilled

The International Atomic Energy Agency has confirmed to Reuters that one of its decommissioned servers had been accessed and had data stolen from it. The admission from the United Nations’ nuclear regulatory arm came in response to the publication of some 170 email addresses, apparently belonging...

France Accuses US of Using Flame Malware to Hack President's Network

The French government has accused the United States of using Flame malware to break into the computer networks inside France’s presidential palace, the Elysee. Newsmagazine l’Express reported the intrusion occurred days before the presidential elections in May when Nicolas Sarkozy was ousted by...

Man Convicted of Illegally Accessing AT&T Servers by 'Impersonating' an iPad

A 27-year-old New York man known online as “Weev” was convicted Tuesday of “impersonating” an iPad in order to gain access to AT&T’s servers and swiping 114,000 email addresses, including some belonging to celebrities. Andrew Auernheimer faces up to 10 years in prison after being found guilty of...

Variant of Mac Malware Targets Tibetan Activists

A new variant of the Mac-based OS X Imuler Trojan has emerged and is targeting Tibetan rights activists, according to a report written by Lisa Myers of Web security firm Intego. This latest variant, detected by Intego as OSX/Imuler.E, is a Trojan dropper that attempts to lure victims with promise...

Report Details Coca-Cola Cyber Attack That Never was Disclosed

In an exclusive report, Bloomberg News outlines a month-long, systematic attack on Cola-Cola’s computer systems that may have influenced the failed $2.4 billion acquisition of a Chinese juice company. The FBI knew about it. Coca-Cola knew about it. But shareholders were kept in the dark. The Coke...