General Michael Hayden Talks about the Future of Cybersecurity at MIRcon 2013

When you've got some of the cybersecurity industry's best and brightest practitioners in one room, just how do you top the conversations they're having across the breakfast table? By getting one of the foremost experts on cybersecurity to deliver a top notch speech on the future of the industry,...

Unnamed Android Vulna Ad Library Abused to Steal User Data

A popular Android mobile ad library available on Google Play can be used to collect device data or execute malicious code, security researchers have discovered. The most alarming aspect to the library is that close to 2 percent of Android apps with more than 1 million downloads on Google Play use...

Adobe Acrobat, ColdFusion Source Code, Customer Data Stolen

Attackers accessed customer IDs, encrypted passwords as well as source code for a number of Adobe products, Adobe chief security officer Brad Arkin announced. Arkin said Adobe is working with law enforcement on the breach in which attackers accessed source code for Adobe Acrobat, ColdFusion,...

XAMPP 1.8.1 Local Write Access Vulnerability

============================================= INTERNET SECURITY AUDITORS ALERT 2013-007 - Original release date: March 14th, 2013 - Last revised: March 19th, 2013 - Discovered by: Manuel Garcia Cardenas - Severity: 6,8/10 CVSS Base Score - CVE-ID: CVE-2013-2586...

VPN provider 'Proxy.sh' sniffed the traffic of US based server to Catch Hackers

The very first question we always try to figure before choosing a trusted VPN service - Can't a VPN provider just look at my traffic all they want and see what I'm doing? Well, a reputated VPN provider today answers the Question and admitted that they sniffed the traffic on one of its United...

Hacker sold personal data of 4 million US citizens online; risk of potential Identity Theft

An illegal service that sells personal data of US citizens online, which can then be used for identity theft hacked into the networks of three major data brokers and Hacker stole their databases. Cyber attack has given them access to Social Security Numbers, dates of birth, and other personal...

Hacker sold personal data of 4 million US citizens online; risk of potential Identity Theft

An illegal service that sells personal data of US citizens online, which can then be used for identity theft hacked into the networks of three major data brokers and Hacker stole their databases. Cyber attack has given them access to Social Security Numbers, dates of birth, and other personal...

Icefog Targeted APT Attacks Hit South Korea, Japan

An espionage campaign featuring precise targeting of victims and malware that allows the attackers one-on-one interaction with compromised systems has been uncovered. Government agencies, manufacturers, high tech companies and media organizations in South Korea and Japan have been the primary...

Design/Logic Flaw

administration.jsp in Cisco SocialMiner allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by sniffing the network for HTTP client-server traffic, aka Bug ID CSCuh76780...

Njw0rm RAT Spreads Via USB Drives, Steals No-IP Credentials

Remote access Trojans, or RATs, are typically stay-at-home creatures. Central to a good many targeted attacks for their ability to steal data from compromised computers, RATs aren’t generally built with the capability to spread to more machines. A variant of njRAT, however, has broken that mold...

KINS Banking Trojan/Data Theft (credentialed check)

The remote Windows host has files that indicate that the KINS banking Trojan has been installed. False positives may occur if file names identical to files KINS creates are detected on the system. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid69555;...

Poison Ivy RAT Spotted in Three New China Attacks

The Poison Ivy remote access Trojan may be old, but it’s not losing favor with nation states that continue to make it the center piece of targeted attacks. Three groups of hackers, reportedly all with ties to China and possibly related in terms of their funding and training, are currently managin...

Google WebLogin Tokens Expose Google Apps, User Data

An exposure in the way Google handles authentication is an illustration of the unintended consequences of trading security for a little bit of convenience. Craig Young, a researcher from security company Tripwire, demonstrated at Def Con over the weekend how an Android single sign-on token known ...

Web security hacks dominate Black Hat USA 2013

The security of the Web is looking a little like Al Bundy right about now look it up kids. Granted Black Hat is fresh on our minds and you always come away from that event less willing to use the Internet, but this year seemed especially bad in terms of new attacks—or new twists on old attacks—th...

BREACH Compression Attack Steals HTTPS Response Secrets

A serious attack against ciphertext secrets buried inside HTTPS responses has prompted an advisory from Homeland Security. The BREACH attack is an offshoot of CRIME, which was thought dead and buried after it was disclosed in September. Released at last week’s Black Hat USA 2013, BREACH enables a...

Russian Hackers charged for stealing 160 million Credit Cards

A Group of Hackers, Four Russians and a Ukrainian allegedly broke computer networks of more than a dozen major American and international corporations and stole 160 million credit card numbers over the course of seven years, the largest data theft case ever prosecuted in the U.S. They are accused...

Hacking Ring Steals $300 Million, 160 Million Card Numbers

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of New Jersey is expected to further discuss charges today against five hackers who allegedly stole at least 160 million credit and debit card numbers and netted more than $300 million over the course of seven years in what could be the largest cybercrim...

Russian Hackers charged for stealing 160 million Credit Cards

A Group of Hackers, Four Russians and a Ukrainian allegedly broke computer networks of more than a dozen major American and international corporations and stole 160 million credit card numbers over the course of seven years, the largest data theft case ever prosecuted in the U.S. They are accused...

Massive Database from Tango messenger server hacked by Syrian Electronic Army

Syrian Electronic Army SEA, hacking group known for cyber attacks against the anti-Syrian websites, has claimed that it has hacked the website of messaging application, Tango tango.me, that includes hundreds of millions of electronic and voice data over the Internet. Hacker group tweeted a messag...

WordPress Plugin miniBB - SQL Injection Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

WordPress Plugin miniBB - SQL Injection Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/61116/info miniBB is prone to an SQL-injection vulnerability and multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities. Successful exploits could allow an attacker to steal...