Call for Papers from DefCon Chennai (DC602028)

Call for Papers from DefCon ChennaiDC602028 Background: We are the Official DEF-CON Chennai Group DC602028 The Event is taking place on 11th September 2011 at a resort in ECR Road Chennai,India. We will be having a Private conference room for the meet. Regarding Paper Submission We require...

Kuwait ISP FastTelco Defaced by Anonymous Hackers

Kuwait ISP FastTelco Defaced by Anonymous Hackers Anonymous claimed responsibility for the defacement of the Fast Telecommunications company website FastTelco, a major ISP internet service provider in Kuwait. The Anonymous hacktivists identify themselves as AnonKuwait, and claim to be fighting...

Citigroup hacked again - 92,000 customers info exposed from Japan

Citigroup hacked again - 92,000 customers info exposed from Japan For the second time this year, Citigroup has suffered a major breach of its credit customers' personal information; this time the breach involved 92,400 customers at its Japanese unit. Citigroup's Japanese credit card unit said...

#Blackhat Conference : Square Mobile Gadget allows to Hack Credit Cards

Blackhat Conference : Square Mobile Gadget allows to Hack Credit Cards Researchers at the Black Hat security conference today revealed two ways the Square payment system, which turns any iPhone, iPad or Android into a point-of-sale credit card processor, could be used for fraud. Square a mobile...

#Blackhat Conference : Square Mobile Gadget allows to Hack Credit Cards

Blackhat Conference : Square Mobile Gadget allows to Hack Credit Cards Researchers at the Black Hat security conference today revealed two ways the Square payment system , which turns any iPhone, iPad or Android into a point-of-sale credit card processor, could be used for fraud. Square a mobile...

On 4th August SAP systems will be hacked on internet in BlackHat USA 2011

On 4th August SAP systems will be hacked on internet in BlackHat USA 2011 On the 4th of august at the world largest technical security conference - BlackHat USA 2011, which will take place in Las Vegas, SAP security expert and CTO of ERPScan Alexander Polyakov will show how any malicious attacker...

Harvard researcher arrested on hacking charges

Harvard researcher arrested on hacking charges A Harvard researcher Aaron Swartz has been arrested in Boston for broke into the computer networks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to gain access to JSTOR, a non-profit online service for distributing scholarly articles, and downloaded 4...

Harvard researcher arrested on hacking charges

Harvard researcher arrested on hacking charges A Harvard researcher Aaron Swartz has been arrested in Boston for broke into the computer networks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to gain access to JSTOR, a non-profit online service for distributing scholarly articles, and downloaded 4...

Indictment Names Reddit Luminary In Theft of Data from MIT

A 24 year-old entrepreneur and star programmer has been indicted by the federal authorities in Boston following and accused of hacking into the network of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and making off with millions of pages of copyrighted documents. Aaron Swartz, who is best known as a...

SEO Poisoning Campaign Infecting Users With Black Hole Exploit Kit

Researchers have found a new black hat SEO campaign that is being used to redirect users to links that will install the Black Hole exploit kit. The attack is based on searches for, of all things, Shia Labeouf, and leads users through a forest of redirects before plopping them on the compromised...

Robert X. Cringley (Security Expert) Credit Card Hacked !

Cringley's credit card was recently hacked. And if his card can be hacked, anyone's can. Like many cardholders, Cringley received a notification from his credit card company's fraud department, informing him that his card data was being used overseas, on an online dating website. A scammer used...

Student Charged With Posting Counterfeit Coupons to 4Chan

A student at New York’s Rochester Institute of Technology RIT has been arrested for producing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of fake coupons and posting them to 4chan and other websites. Lucas Henderson, a 22-year old computer security student from Lubbock, Texas was charged with wire fra...

FBI Warns of Massive Wire Fraud Scams

The FBI is warning businesses about an ongoing spate of attacks that are stealing millions of dollars from companies through unauthorized bank transfers to Chinese companies. The fraudulent wire transfers are not a new tactic, but the FBI says the current round of attacks is notable in that...

The Underground Economy: SMS Fraud

The underground malware economy has expanded and diversified in recent years and the latest frontier is the mobile platform. In this video, Kaspersky Lab’s Denis Maslennikov talks about the ways that attackers use premium-rate SMS messages and banking fraud to bilk users...

Sony: Hackers Nabbed Info Of 70 Million Members

Sony admitted that hackers broke into its PlayStation Network online gaming network made off with the personal information of more than 77 million members in what would be one of the largest reported data breaches in history. A message posted on the PlayStation Network Web site informed customers...

Hacker pleads after busted with 675K stolen cards

A Georgia man has pleaded guilty to fraud and identity theft after authorities found him in possession of more than 675,000 credit card numbers, some of which he obtained by hacking into business networks Rogelio Hackett Jr., 26, pleaded guilty on Thursday to one count each of access device fraud...

Hacker Pleads Guilty To Theft of 600K Credit Cards, Could Get 10 Years

A 26 year-old Georgia man pleaded guilty in federal court in Virginia to the theft of hundreds of thousands of credit cards and a years-long fraud scheme that netted him more than $100,000 in illicit profits – money he used to buy himself a BMW and luxury clothing. Rogelio Hackett of Lithonia,...

Taiwan Struggles To Combat Attacks From China

Cyber crime, online fraud and copyright infringement are growing rapidly in Taiwan as law enforcement officials, law makers and the courts struggle to stay abreast of the problem, according to a local prosecutor says. In a Webcast presented to students and faculty at Harvard’s Berkman Center for...

French Hacker Arrested After Bragging on TV !

A French hacker who boasted on TV about hacking into the network of an important defense contractor was arrested and charged with unauthorized access to a computer system, data theft and organized fraud. The hacker appeared on the France 2 television programme "Complément d'enquête" Further...

Customers Say Scammers Calling, Texting in Wake of Email Breach

As the first phishing attacks begin to emerge targeting the millions of customers affected by the email data breach at Epsilon, there are indications that more than just email addresses and names may have been taken during the attack. Some customers whose email addresses were compromised as part ...