QR codes - Next way for Android Malware

Once a user scans the QR code, the code redirects them to a site that will install a Trojan on their Android smart phones. Kaspersky's SecureList blog has a report of a malicious QR code on a web site which when scanned directs the user to a URL; the linked site doesn't have a file matching the...

Massachusetts Attorney General, Victim of an iTunes Scam, Says She'll Demand Answers

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley said on Tuesday that her office would be inquiring into long-standing complaints about fraudulent purchases that leverage Apple’s popular online music store. In a lunchtime address to business and technology leaders in Massachusetts, Coakley said she...

DSA-2309-1 openssl - compromised certificate authority

Bulletin has no description...

Senate Considers Using Mob Law To Go After Cybercriminals

Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee listened as one of the nation’s top cyber cops asked for expanded powers to go after cybercriminal groups, including the use of statutes written to combat the mafia. But confronted with the prospect of a major face lift for the U.S.’s preeminent cyber...

The Hacker News Magazine September Issue - NO ONE IS SECURE

The Hacker News Magazine September Issue - NO ONE IS SECURE Well folks, after this issue and the obvious intensity of the insecurity of the net, I have a few thoughts on the unfettered access to knowledge. It is more than apparent we all live in a time where the extensive dissemination of opinion...

Ramnit Worm Evolves Into Financial Malware

The Ramnit worm, known by researchers for its use of somewhat old-school malicious techniques, has now changed some of its tactics and morphed into financial malware, researchers say. As of now, researchers at Trusteer say they have no way of determining whether Ramnit has actually changed, or if...

History Sniffing Case Dismissed Because Defendant Fails to Quantify Losses

A federal court in New York has dismissed a case in which the plaintiff claimed that a third-party advertiser had violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act CFAA by sniffing her browser history and using flash cookies, ruling that the plaintiff didn’t prove that the actions were harmful enough...

Call for Papers from DefCon Chennai (DC602028)

Call for Papers from DefCon Chennai DC602028 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...

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...