UPDATED: Anonymous Hacks FTC Consumer Protection Website To Protest ACTA

The anarchic hacking collective Anonymous took credit for a successful attack on Web sites belonging to the FTC. The attack, on Friday, was in protest for the U.S. Government’s support of ACTA, the Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. Story updated to include comment from the FTC. A number of FTC...

CVE-2012-1056

CVE-2012-1056 concerns the Drupal Forward module (6.x-1.x before 6.x-1.21 and 7.x-1.x before 7.x-1.3). The issue is improper permission checks for the Recent forwards, Most forwarded, and Dynamic blocks, enabling remote attackers to obtain node titles via unspecified vectors. The related Drupal S...

Panel Discussion on Law Enforcement and Cybercriminals

Investigators from Interpol, the Dutch High Tech Crime Unit NHTCU, Germany’s Bundeskriminalamt BKA, and the General Directorate for the Romanian Intelligence and Internal Protection GDIIP participated in a panel moderated by Threatpost editor Paul Roberts on the first day of the conference. The...

YamaTough Hacker Demanded $50,000 for not releasing Stolen Symantec Source Code

YamaTough Hacker Demanded $50,000 for not releasing Stolen Symantec Source Code According to email transcripts posted to Pastebin yesterday, and confirmed by the company, a group of hackers attempted to extort $50,000 from Symantec in exchange for not releasing its stolen PCAnywhere and Norton...

Anonymous Leaks FBI, Scotland Yard Phone Call Detailing Hacking Investigations

Hacktivists with the online collective Anonymous have released a recording of a sensitive phone call between officials with the FBI, Scotland Yard and other foreign police agencies related to ongoing investigations into hacking. The conference call, which occurred Jan. 17, focused on the continue...

Cyber Cops Wrestle With Legal Hurdles, Public Perception

CANCUN, MEXICO — A panel of top law enforcement officers in charge of cyber criminal investigations reveals that the guys with the white hats face an uphill climb if they want to take down cyber criminal kingpins, with outdated laws and processes on the one hand, and an increasingly skeptical and...

Report Warns of Woeful Readiness For Cyber Attacks Globally

A new report finds that the ‘bad guys’ are winning, and that most nations are ill-prepared for crippling cyber attacks. The report, by Security & Defence Agenda SDA, was commissioned by the security firm McAfee. It concluded that friendly nations around the globe are losing out in an arms race wi...

FBI Looking for App to Monitor Twitter and Facebook For Threat Data

The FBI is in the early stages of developing an application that would monitor sites such as Twitter and Facebook, as well as various news feeds, in order to find information on emerging threats and new events happening at the moment. The tool would give specialists the ability to pull the data...

Data Breach Affects Two Million NY Customers, State Commission to Investigate

The New York State Public Service Commission announced yesterday they’ll be looking into a data breach that may have exposed the personal information of almost two million customers to unknown attackers. An employee from a software consulting firm contracted by New York State Electric & Gas NYSEG...

Anonymous Changes DDoS Tactics in Megaupload Retaliation

Anonymous’ army of hacktivists have changed tactics in what some are calling an attempt to trick people into participating in distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks. A round of DDoS attacks Thursday were launched in retaliation for the federal crackdown on Megaupload, a popular file-sharing...

Was the Koobface Expose the Right Move?

Just as a stand-up comedian carefully places his punch line at the end of the joke, I also usually leave my conclusions for the end of a post. Except for this time. This time, I would like to start with the conclusion: For an ongoing investigation not to be jeopardized, it is extremely important...

Zappos a division of Amazon got Hacked

Zappos a division of Amazon got Hacked A notification mail from Zappos is circulating in Customers that a division of Amazon "Zappos.com" got Hacked by Unknown Hackers. Notification mail indicated that names, email addresses, mailing addresses, and the last four digits of customer's social securi...

Microsoft Readying Real Time Hosted Threat Intelligence Feed

New York City – Microsoft has proven that it can take down huge, global botnets like Kelihos, Rustock and Waldec. Now the company is ready to start making the data it acquires in those busts available to governments, law enforcement and customers as a real time threat intelligence feed...

At FBI's Cyber Crime Conference: Chest Thumping And Head Scratching In Equal Measure

Long content to talk about the “what” behind cyber crime, the nation’s top computer security cops descended on New York City this week for the FBI’s International Conference on Cyber Crime ready to talk about “who.” But while discussions of tools and techniques for identifying criminal actors...

International Conference on Cyber Security (ICCS) 2012 : Protecting the Cyber World

International Conference on Cyber Security ICCS 2012 : Protecting the Cyber World The FBI is teaming up with Fordham University for the International Conference on Cyber Security. It's an effort to identify emerging cyber threats and develop ways to mitigate those threats. The ZeuS Trojan has...

Losing The Cops In A Foot Chase? There's An App For That

Law enforcement officials in Maryland have issued a warning about the increasing use of smart phones and Web based services to listen in on law enforcement radio transmissions. Gang members, officials warn, are using the smart phone apps to get a jump on enforcement efforts and, in at least one...

As SOPA Looms, Survey Suggests Most Americans Are Media Pirates – And Proud Of It

While lawmakers in the U.S. debate new laws that would give media companies powerful new legal weapons to stop the distribution of copyrighted content online, a new survey of Americans finds that most admit to having pirated content themselves – and don’t see any problem with it. The survey of...

Anonymous Leaks Info Following California Police Union Website Hack

The website for California’s Statewide Law Enforcement Association CSLEA union remained offline Tuesday following the announcement of a hack by well-known hacktivist group Anonymous over the holiday weekend. In part of what the group has deemed “pr0j3ct m4hy3m,” project mayhem Anonymous released...

Specialforces.com Says Hack Of Customer Data Is Six Months Old

Just days after a successful attack on the security think tank Stratfor, Anonymous, the anarchic hacking collective, is getting headlines again for an attack on Specialforces.com, a Web site used by members of the armed forces law enforcement officers and gun enthusiasts. However, an employee...

Anonymous Hacks Security Think Tank STRATFOR

Hackers with Anonymous have struck a well-known security and intelligence think tank based in Texas and made off with some 200 GB of credit card data and other information. Members of the loosely-affiliated collective announced the attack on STRATFOR on Twitter. Among the items reportedly pilfere...