Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID15980: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on October 7, 2015

Medium Alert ID: 39551 First Published: 2015 June 30 13:19 GMT Last Updated: 2015 October 7 19:54 GMT Version: 14 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID15980 and...

Hacker charged for funding terrorist groups

A hacker 'Cahya Fitrianta' sentenced to eight years in prison by the West Jakarta District Court judges for hacking into many economic websites to steal money and funding that money to terrorist groups. He is also ordered to pay a Rp 500 million $51,000 fine. He is charged with breaking into many...

RIAA Targeted by Anonymous Operation Payback !

The rogue hacktivist movement Anonymous is apparently breaking out the Low Orbit Ion Cannon again for a reprise of the Operation Payback campaign, this time setting their distributed denial of service DDoS attack sites on the Recording Industry Association of America RIAA. The campaign to disrupt...

Owning Virtual Worlds For Fun and Profit

I’m a security researcher. I find bugs in software, they get fixed. I write exploits, they give me a shell. It’s more or less always the same and it gets kind of boring. But there was one exploit I helped write back in 2007 that was a little different. This is the story of that exploit. Second Li...