Top Credit Agencies Admit Celebrities' Data Stolen

The top credit bureaus have admitted someone accessed prominent Americans’ private data by filling out bogus requests via a Web site used by millions of consumers to access free annual credit reports. “We are aware of recent media reports pertaining to unauthorized access to files belonging to...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS : firefox vulnerabilities (USN-728-3)

Jesse Ruderman and Gary Kwong discovered flaws in the browser engine. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. CVE-2009-0772, CVE-2009-0774...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS : firefox vulnerabilities (USN-690-3)

Several flaws were discovered in the browser engine. These problems could allow an attacker to crash the browser and possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges. CVE-2008-5500 Boris Zbarsky discovered that the same-origin check in Firefox could be bypassed by utilizing XBL-bindings. An...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS : mozilla-thunderbird vulnerabilities (USN-701-2)

Several flaws were discovered in the browser engine. If a user had JavaScript enabled, these problems could allow an attacker to crash Thunderbird and possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges. CVE-2008-5500 Boris Zbarsky discovered that the same-origin check in Thunderbird could be...

Malware attack on Apple employees by hackers who targeted Facebook

The same ring of hackers that are responsible for hacking into at least 40 companies including Facebook and Twitter are reportedly also infected the computers of some Apple employees, the company acknowledged Tuesday. The purpose of hack considered an effort to steal company secrets, research and...

Comment Crew Exposé a New Level of China Attack Attribution

China has been blamed for cyberattacks on every major industrial base in the United States—and even in some corners for the Super Bowl blackout. But most of it has been rampant speculation coupled with the lacing together of a number of loose ends. Examples of the kind of direct attribution to th...

Mandiant revealed Chinese APT1 Cyber Espionage campaign

Few weeks after the discovery of the sophisticated cyber espionage campaign against principal US media The Mandiant® Intelligence Center™ released an shocking report that reveals an enterprise-scale computer espionage campaign dubbed APT1. The term APT1 is referred to one of the numerous cyber...

Federal Reserve Admits It was Briefly Hacked During Super Bowl

Two days after the group Anonymous boasted it had broken into a government Web site and had the data dump to prove it, the U.S. Federal Reserve admitted it was hacked. “The Federal Reserve system is aware that information was obtained by exploiting a temporary vulnerability in a website vendor...

Android malware with ability to install Backdoor on Computers

Kaspersky Lab has revealed a new type of malware that can infect your computer when connected smartphone or tablet. Two such application, Super Clean and DroidCleaner found in Google Play android market. These two are actually same application, just released with two different names. These...

Android malware with ability to install Backdoor on Computers

Kaspersky Lab has revealed a new type of malware that can infect your computer when connected smartphone or tablet. Two such application, Super Clean and DroidCleaner found in Google Play android market. These two are actually same application, just released with two different names. These...

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...

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...