New P2P Zeus Variant Targets Popular Sites with Bogus Offers

Facebook, Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail users should beware of rogue rebate offers and new secure payment options aimed at getting them to part with their debit card information. Earlier this week Amit Klein, CTO of Trusteer, announced the discovery of a peer-to-peer variant of the Zeus platform that...

Fraudulent Apps and Fake AV Found on Google Play

Researchers from the security firm AegisLab discovered more than 15 fake antivirus and free SMS applications on Google’s recently rebranded content market place, Google Play. The applications are redirecting users to a third party site run by the app’s developer. AegisLab researchers could not sa...

Deceptive In-App Ads Hit Users of Draw Something

I really like the new app by OMGPOP called Draw Something. I play this game with my friends possibly a little too much. Draw Something has attracted more than 50 million downloads, and was just acquired by Zynga for $200 million dollars. It was surprising the other day when I noticed an...

Google Fixes SSL Certificate Error in Chrome

Google has released an update for Chrome that repairs a problem when users attempt to connect to sites over HTTPS. In some instances, the browser will return an error messages that tells the user that the requested site’s server certificate is invalid even when that’s not the case. Some users hav...

Visa, MasterCard Warn Of Breach At Card Processor

UPDATE–MasterCard and Visa have confirmed that they are investigating a potentially huge data breach at one of the companies’ payment processors, which the Wall Street Journal has identified as Global Payments Inc. The credit card giants are alerting banks about a breach at a U.S. based card...

Ubuntu 11.10 : ca-certificates-java regression (USN-1197-8)

USN-1197-7 fixed a vulnerability in ca-certificates-java. The new package broke upgrades from Ubuntu 11.04 to Ubuntu 11.10. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. It was discovered that Dutch Certificate Authority DigiNotar had mis-issued multiple fraudulent...

Fortune Favors the Bold? Man Steals Microsoft Founder's Identity, Credit Card

When one Pennsylvanian man couldn’t foot his bills, he opted to steal the identity of someone that could – one of the world’s richest men, Microsoft co-founder and billionaire Paul Allen. An AWOL solider from Pittsburgh swiped Allen’s Citibank credit card account information earlier this year to...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1197-7)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu Update for ca-certificates-java USN-1197-7

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1197-7 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN11977.nasl 7960 2017-12-01 06:58:16Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for ca-certificates-java USN-1197-7 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 10.10 / 11.04 / 11.10 : ca-certificates-java vulnerability (USN-1197-7)

USN-1197-5 addressed an issue in ca-certificates pertaining to the Dutch Certificate Authority DigiNotar mis-issuing fraudulent certificates. This update provides the corresponding update for ca-certificates-java. It was discovered that Dutch Certificate Authority DigiNotar had mis-issued multipl...

USN-1197-7: ca-certificates-java vulnerability

USN-1197-5 addressed an issue in ca-certificates pertaining to the Dutch Certificate Authority DigiNotar mis-issuing fraudulent certificates. This update provides the corresponding update for ca-certificates-java. Original advisory details: It was discovered that Dutch Certificate Authority...

VMSA-2012-0001 VMware ESXi and ESX updates to third party library and ESX Service Console

The remote ESXi is missing one or more security related Updates from VMSA-2012-0001. Summary VMware ESXi and ESX updates to third party library and ESX Service Console address several security issues. Relevant releases: ESXi 4.1 without patch ESXi410-201201401-SG ESXi 5.0 without patch...

Business Identity Theft: Increasingly Commonplace Yet Incredibly Obscure

You wouldn’t know it from reading the news, but business identity theft is becoming an increasingly large concern for small business owners, according to a report filed by NPR’s Yuki Noguchi today on Morning Edition. Noguchi tells the story of Scott Burnett and the Memphis-based company he and hi...

Stratfor Subscribers Experience Phishing Attempts

Cybercriminals continue targeting customers of Stratfor, the well-known, Texas-based security and policy think-tank hacked by Anonymous on Christmas, according to a TechNet report. Social engineers have been sending malicious and fraudulent emails to Strafor subscribers since their customer...

VMSA-2012-0001 : VMware ESXi and ESX updates to third-party library and ESX Service Console

a. ESX third-party update for Service Console kernel The ESX Service Console Operating System COS kernel is updated to kernel-2.6.18-274.3.1.el5 to fix multiple security issues in the COS kernel. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project cve.mitre.org has assigned the names CVE-2011-0726,...

Fake CNBC's Website for Internet Fraud

Fake CNBC's Website for Internet Fraud The beauty of the Internet is that you can make a truckload of money out here. Yes, you really could quit your full time job if you work hard.The bad news is most people either don't want to work at it, or they buy into some scam that causes them to waste...

Typosquatting Sites Among The Web's Most Popular, Company Finds

More and more fraudulent sites have wrestled their way onto Alexa’s global top 250 ranking list thanks to typosquatting, a technique that attackers use to deceive users into clicking into the wrong website. According to security firm Websense, users who have fat-fingered Twitter’s Web address are...

FBI warning about Banking trojan "Gameover"

FBI warning about Banking trojan "Gameover" Organized crooks have begun launching debilitating cyber attacks against banks and their customers as part of a smoke screen to prevent victims from noticing simultaneous high-dollar cyber heists. On Friday the FBI issued a warning about a banking troja...

More Apps Pulled From Android Market Over Hidden SMS Functionality

There has been another round of malicious apps discovered in the official Android Market, with this wave containing hidden functionality to send SMS messages to premium-rate numbers. The apps, which Google has pulled from the Market already, are counterfeit versions of popular games, including...

Authorities Shut Down Carder Lab in Dominican Republic

Authorities in the Dominican Republic have shut down a carder lab in the city of Santo Domingo, and have arrested a 62-year-old man who they say is one of the alleged leaders of the group. Law enforcement officials had been investigating the group for several months, according to local reports, a...