Fraudsters Exploited Lax Security at Equifax’s TALX Payroll Division

Identity thieves who specialize in tax refund fraud had big help this past tax year from Equifax, one of the nation's largest consumer data brokers and credit bureaus. The trouble stems from TALX, an Equifax subsidiary that provides online payroll, HR and tax services. Equifax says crooks were ab...

CVE-2015-3998

phpwhois version 4.2.5 used in the WordPress adsense-click-fraud-monitoring plugin version 1.7.5 is documented to have a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability. An attacker can inject arbitrary script or HTML via the query parameter to whois.php. The linked reports confirm the affected componen...

Three Chinese Hackers Fined $9 Million for Stealing Trade Secrets

Hackers won't be spared. Three Chinese hackers have been ordered to pay $8.8 million £6.8 million after hacking email servers of two major New York-based law firms to steal corporate merger plans in December 2016 and used them to trade stocks. The U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni in Manhattan...

Dutch Police Seize Another Company that Sells PGP-Encrypted Blackberry Phones

The Dutch police arrested four suspects on Tuesday on suspicion of money laundering and involvement in selling custom encrypted BlackBerry and Android smartphones to criminals. The Dutch National High Tech Crime Unit NHTCU, dedicated team within the Dutch National Police Agency aims to investigat...

Cisco CallManager Express Unauthorized Access Vulnerability (cisco-sa-20170503-cme1)

A vulnerability in Cisco IOS Software for Cisco CallManager Express CME could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to make unauthorized phone calls. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the...

Cisco IOS Software Unauthorized Access Vulnerability

Cisco IOS is the interconnected Internet operating system used on most Cisco Systems routers and network switches. A security vulnerability exists in Cisco IOS 15.53M Software in Cisco CallManager Express CME devices that stems from a configuration restriction in the toll-fraud protections...

Design/Logic Flaw

A vulnerability in Cisco IOS 15.53M Software for Cisco CallManager Express CME could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to make unauthorized phone calls. The vulnerability is due to a configuration restriction in the toll-fraud protections component of the affected software. An attacker...

CVE-2017-6624

A vulnerability in Cisco IOS 15.53M Software for Cisco CallManager Express CME could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to make unauthorized phone calls. The vulnerability is due to a configuration restriction in the toll-fraud protections component of the affected software. An attacker...

CVE-2017-6624

CVE-2017-6624 affects Cisco IOS 15.5(3)M Software for Cisco CallManager Express (CME). The issue stems from a configuration restriction in the toll-fraud protections component, allowing an unauthenticated, remote attacker to place unauthorized long-distance calls via an affected system. Connected...

CVE-2017-6624

A vulnerability in Cisco IOS 15.53M Software for Cisco CallManager Express CME could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to make unauthorized phone calls. The vulnerability is due to a configuration restriction in the toll-fraud protections component of the affected software. An attacker...

Cisco CallManager Express Unauthorized Access Vulnerability

A vulnerability in Cisco IOS Software for Cisco CallManager Express CME could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to make unauthorized phone calls. The vulnerability is due to a configuration restriction in the toll-fraud protections component of the affected software. An attacker could...

Blind Trust in Email Could Cost You Your Home

The process of buying or selling a home can be extremely stressful and complex, but imagine the stress that would boil up if -- at settlement -- your money was wired to scammers in another country instead of to the settlement firm or escrow company. Here's the story about a phishing email that co...

US Court Sentences Russian Lawmaker's Son to 27 Years in Jail for Hacking

The son of a prominent Russian lawmaker was sentenced on Friday by a US federal court to 27 years in prison after being convicted of stealing millions of US credit card numbers and causing some $170 million in damages to businesses and individuals. This sentence is so far the longest sentence eve...

MasterCard launches Credit Card with Built-In Fingerprint Scanner

MasterCard has unveiled its brand new payment card that has a built-in biometric fingerprint scanner, allowing customers to authorize payments with their fingerprint, without requiring a PIN code or a signature. The company is already testing the new biometric payment cards, combined with the...

IHG Confirms Second Credit Card Breach Impacting 1,000-Plus Hotels

In what’s becoming a familiar refrain to guests, InterContinental Hotels Group, said late last week that payment card systems at more than 1,000 of its hotels had been breached. It’s the second breach that IHG, a multinational hotel conglomerate that counts Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza among its...

Credit Card Number Disclosure

Credit card numbers are used in applications where a user is able to purchase goods and/or services. A credit card number is a sensitive piece of information and should be handled as such. Cyber-criminals will use various methods to attempt to compromise credit card information that can then be...

Hacker Who Used Linux Botnet to Send Millions of Spam Emails Pleads Guilty

A Russian man accused of infecting tens of thousands of computer servers worldwide to generate millions in illicit profit has finally entered a guilty plea in the United States and is going to face sentencing in August. Maxim Senakh, 41, of Velikii Novgorod, Russia, pleaded guilty in a US federal...

Fraudsters Using GiftGhostBot Botnet to Steal Gift Card Balances

Gift cards have once again caused quite a headache for retailers, as cyber criminals are using a botnet to break into and steal cash from money-loaded gift cards provided by major retailers around the globe. Dubbed GiftGhostBot, the new botnet specialized in gift card fraud is an advanced...

Russian Hacker Pleads Guilty to Developing and Distributing Citadel Trojan

A Russian man accused of developing and distributing the Citadel Banking Trojan, which infected nearly 11 Million computers globally and caused over $500 Million in losses, has finally pleaded guilty to charges of computer fraud. Mark Vartanyan, 29, who was very well known as "Kolypto," pleaded...

Anonymous log injection in FSCM

Application: Oracle PeopleSoft Versions Affected: PeopleSoft FSCM 9.2 Vendor: Oracle Bug: Anonymous log injection Reported: 16.03.2017 Vendor response: 17.03.2017 Date of Public Advisory: 18.07.2017 Reference: Oracle CPU July 2017 Authors: Vahagn Vardanyan ERPScan VULNERABILITY INFORMATION Class:...