APEC Host Committee Spear-Phished by China

An Analysis published earlier this month by Kahu Security raises the possibility that the hack of systems used by the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation host committee was the result of a spear phishing attack with links back to the Chinese mainland. As Threatpost reported yesterday, computers...

Possible Data Breach Involving APEC Host Committee

Dozens of members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit’s host committee who submitted to background checks ahead of a meeting with President Obama may have been the victims of a data breach, according to an Associated Press report. An unknown individual gained unauthorized access to...

Maharashtra Highway Police website hacked

Maharashtra Highway Police website hacked Not only International Law Enforcement and Police Under Hacker's attack, Even our Local Police websites and Database also become of Victim of breaches mostly once a day. A hacker With name "powerin10 " take responsibility to hack Maharashtra Highway Polic...

International Association of Chiefs of Police Investigators Owned by Anonymous Hackers

International Association of Chiefs of Police Investigators Owned by Anonymous Hackers The Antisec wing of Anonymous has come out with another document release in its ongoing assault on law enforcement. A Special Agent Supervisor of the CA Department of Justice is the latest victim of Anonymous w...

Possible Credit Card Theft in Steam Website Hacking

Possible Credit Card Theft in Steam Website Hacking Valve CEO Gabe Newell has contacted all users of the Steam game distribution platform to let them know that the company has suffered a security breach. Right before going offline, users saw a new category in the forum that directed them to open ...

Computershare Says No Customer Data Exposed In Breach

The investor services company told Threatpost that an investigation has determined that data stolen by a rogue employee didn’t contain shareholder data. However, the company still hasn’t retrieved two USB drives containing company email and documents that outline some of Computershare’s closely...

Insider Threats vs Hackers - by Emmett Jorgensen

Insider Threats vs Hackers - by Emmett Jorgensen Emmett Jorgensen has worked in IT and Infosec for over 10 years. He works for Kanguru Solutions www.kanguru.com, a manufacturer of secure portable storage solutions. Article taken from 'The Hacker News' Magazine - October Edition. You can Download...

Mobile Security and Lack thereof

Mobile Security and Lack thereof Nidhi Rastogi ,A Security Consultant with Logic Technology Inc, New York share her Views about the Mobile Security and Lack thereof . The Article is taken from our September Month Magazine Edition .Here we go.. Mobile technology, particularly smartphones, has come...

Mobile Security and Lack thereof

Mobile Security and Lack thereof Nidhi Rastogi ,A Security Consultant with Logic Technology Inc, New York share her Views about the Mobile Security and Lack thereof . The Article is taken from our September Month Magazine Edition .Here we go.. Mobile technology, particularly smartphones, has come...

TeaMp0isoN releases list of vulnerable police web sites

TeaMp0isoN releases list of vulnerable police web sites TeaMp0isoN group of hackers published a list of vulnerable law enforcement authorities websites that can be hacked using MSAccess SQL injection attacks. Member from TeaMp0isoN with codename "f0rsaken" create a pastebin note with following...

Biggest Hack in Swedish History Affects Politicians, Journalists Among Others

Login credentials for nearly 200,000 individuals, most Swedish citizens, have been exposed in what experts are calling the largest data breach in that country’s history. According to a report from The Local, a Sweden-based, English language news publication, a popular Swedish blogging platform,...

Hackers Hit Japanese Parliament, Nab Log-ins and E-mails

Hackers believed to be working for the Peoples Republic of China hit computers in Japan’s Parliament with a virus according to reports from The New York Times and Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. Government computers and a server used by three members of the lower house were targeted by a sustaine...

Japan under Heavy Cyber Attack !

Japan under Heavy Cyber Attack ! In last two days several Cyber attacks breach corporate and National Security of Japan. First, Japanese parliament hit by cyber attack from China according to Report. A server located in China was used for the attack on the Japanese Lower House. This led to an...

760+ Organizations, Including Google, Facebook, Targeted by RSA Attack

More than 760 organizations, 20 percent of them Fortune 100 companies, may have been compromised by RSA’s now infamous data breach in March, 2011, according to a report on Krebsonsecurity. Facebook, Google and Cisco Systems are just a few of the many organizations who were targets of malware usin...

Ted Julian on Data Breach Response and Incident Analysis

Dennis Fisher talks with Ted Julian of CO3 about why even the more enlightened organizations still find themselves unprepared when hit with a data breach, the need for more public data to help analyze the nature and effects of breaches and how third-party breaches affect organizations. Podcast...

Hackers leak Citigroup CEO's personal data after Occupy Wall Street arrests

Hackers leak Citigroup CEO's personal data after Occupy Wall Street arrests The mobile phone number and home address of Vikram Pandit, the chief executive of Citigroup, have been placed on the web by hacking group CabinCr3w in retaliation for the cuffing of protesters at an Occupy Wall Street dem...

File Management System 1.2.1a File Download

Exploit Title: fims - File Management System execute"select from fimsuser where email='$email' and password=md5'$password'"; if $db-numrows$rs0 return true; else return false; Line 51 of index.php: if isset$REQUESTf assertisnumeric$REQUESTf; $file = getfiledata$gdb, $REQUESTf; header"Accept-Range...

Defense Department Sued Over Data Breach

A group of people affected by the TRICARE data breach in September has filed a class-action lawsuit against the Department of Defense, alleging that the department and its health care organization didn’t properly safeguard personal information that was stored on backup tapes stolen last month. Th...

Thousands of Patients at Risk of ID Theft Following Genentech Breach

Thousands of patients seeking medical treatment may be at risk of identity theft following a breach of systems belonging to the biotech firm Genentech, according to a letter sent to New Hampshire’s Attorney General on behalf of the company late last month. As many as 3,500 patients may have had...

Sony Detects Suspicious Behavior, Locks 93,000 Online Accounts

Sony locked the accounts of some 93,000 individuals on the Playstation Network PSN, the Sony Entertainment Network SEN, and Sony Online Entertainment SOE services following a mass log-in attempt using username-password combinations obtained from an unnamed source. The attack affected less than on...