The World Now, "Third Age" Cyber Crime !

The year 2010 was a crime of great team and could prove to mark the beginning of a "third age" of computer crimes, security expert Graham Cluley of Sophos, said before the review of the latest threats Company year. The first period was marked by amateur hackers and virus creation on the PC, the...

Cops hunt for the hacker who tapped Y P Singh's phone in 60 seconds !

News Taken From mumbaimirror.com, The news is as follows... Thane Crime Branch has set up an inquiry into the matter and a team to track down Sachin Loke after reading the Mumbai Mirror exposé A day after Mumbai Mirror exposed how small-time detectives and software professionals offer phone-tappi...

Its 3rd week after attack & still CBI website remains down !

3rd week after attack & still CBI website remains down ! The website of the much sought-after Central Bureau of Investigation CBI continues to remain inactive, three weeks after it was hacked into by the so-called Pakistani Cyber Army. As a result, many have been badly hit, particularly the media...

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Feds Raid Home of Former Raytheon Employee

Federal agents on Monday raided the Melrose, Massachusetts home of a missile systems expert who formerly worked at U.S. defense contractor Raytheon. Several boxes of items were taken by FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from the home, which is owned by Richard M. Lloyd. According...

8 Different DLL Hijacking Exploits

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Frequent VoIP Attacks Result in Honeypot

A security expert at a managed services provider has kicked off a project to expose and blacklist the networks hosting VoIP attacks against his and other companies’ VoIP PBX servers. Read the full article. Dark Reading...

Hacking Group Raided By FBI

FBI agents have raided the homes of three alleged members of a hacker gang that harassed a security expert who helped put the group’s leader in jail, according to a recently unsealed search warrant affidavit. Read the full article. Wired...

New Linux OS REMnux Designed For Reverse Engineering Malware

A security expert has released a stripped-down Ubuntu distribution designed specifically for reverse-engineering malware. The OS, called REMnux, includes a slew of popular malware-analysis, network monitoring and memory forensics tools the comprise a very powerful environment for taking apart...

Android Controversy Highlights Mobile App Store Weaknesses

Most of the angst and controversy surrounding Google’s decision to remotely erase a benign application from a couple of hundred Android phones recently has centered just on the fact that Google has that ability–as well as the ability to remotely install apps. But, as one security expert says, tha...

Web Application Security Scanner: w3af

w3af is a Web Application Attack and Audit Framework The project’s goal is to create a framework to find and exploit web application vulnerabilities that is easy to use and extend. Identify and exploit a SQL injection One of the most difficult parts of securing your application is to identify the...

Software Insecurity is Our Biggest Weakness

ST. PAUL, MINN.–If the United States wants to remain competitive in the global economy and prevent widespread penetrations of its strategic, corporate and commercial networks, enterprises and government agencies should stop relying on commercial software and go back to writing more of their own...

Chuck Norris Botnet Discovered By Honeypot

Czech security experts say they have uncovered a global botnet that may be redirecting Web surfers to other sites for the purpose of stealing their data. The botnet’s creators have dubbed the network “Chuck Norris” after the famous Hollywood actor and martial arts expert. Read the full article...

Chris Wysopal, Veracode

Chris was one of the first security researchers I met, in 2000, when he and the rest of the L0pht had just become part of @stake. I’ve probably interviewed him more often than anyone else on this list and he’s helped me with dozens of stories over the years. He always had five minutes to explain...

Dave Aitel, Immunity

Dave is one of the four or five smartest people I’ve ever interviewed, and not just on matters related to security or technology in general. His posts on the Daily Dave mailing list are always thoughtful and often funny and he has a knack for explaining insanely complex exploitation techniques,...

iPad Encryption Weakness Likened to iPhone

Apple’s new iPad device looks like it will have some of the same security issues that affect the iPhone, such as weak encryption, a mobile security expert said. Read the full article. Cnet...

The 2010 Threat Landscape

Costin Raiu, chief security expert at Kaspersky Lab in Romania, discusses the state of the threat landscape for the year ahead, including botnets, malicious PDFs and targeted attacks. Please note: Raiu is referring to media reports that attackers may have stolen some of Adobe’s source code. Adobe...

Can Howard Schmidt Make a Difference?

At first glance, the selection of Howard A. Schmidt as the White House Cybersecurity Coordinator looks like little more than a safe and easy choice designed to quiet the critics who for seven months have been howling for action from the Obama administration. But a closer look shows that Schmidt’s...

The simple missteps that cause data breaches

From SearchSecurity.co.uk Ron Condon Simple mistakes by organisations can cause data loss, and those errors are making it easy for cybercriminals to flourish on the Internet, according to a forensics expert who investigated some of the world’s biggest security breaches. Matthjis van der Wel is he...