Team GhostShell leak One Million Records

TeamGhostShell a team linked with the Activist group Anonymous, is claiming that they have hacked some major U.S. institutions including major banking institutions, accounts of politicians and has posted those details online. The dumps comprising of millions of accounts has been let loose on the...

Bulgarian Hackers Group arrested

Bulgarian Hackers Group arrested Bulgarian authorities say that after months of investigation they have busted the "most powerful hacker group" in the country, the Cyber Warrior Invasion. The operation was conducted by Bulgaria's Sector for Computer Crimes, Intellectual Property and Gambling and...

New .Secure Global TLD Proposed

A group of security experts is working to put together a new global TLD that will require companies and individuals applying for domains to adhere to strict security policies and requirements. The proposed .secure TLD is intended to be a known safe group of domains and would include mandatory use...

Proposed Law Could Make It Illegal To Demand Access To Social Media Accounts

A new bill introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives would make it illegal for employers and other institutions to require Social Media passwords from their employees. The bill, the Social Networking Online Protection Act SNOPA, would protect current and prospective employees as well as...

Money Mules, Not Customers, The Real Victims of Bank Fraud

Money mules – the accomplices who help move stolen funds – may be the real victims of online banking scams, not the bank customers who are the ostensible targets of fraudsters, according to new research from Microsoft. In a paper that turns conventional thinking about online banking crime on its...

Pakistani Hackers attacks 31 government and 46 educational institutions Websites

Pakistani Hackers attacks 31 government and 46 educational institutions Websites Maharashtra police said, websites of more than 46 educational institutions and 31 government websites based in the district were allegedly hacked by a group reportedly based in Pakistan. KhantastiC, a hacker who...

LibGuides Cross Site Scripting

Exploit Title: LibGuides "tag search" Cross Site Scripting Date: 6.02.2012 Author: Sony Software Link: http://www.springshare.com/libguides/ Google Dorks: inurl:searchtags.php?iid= or intext:Powered by Springshare Web Browser : Mozilla Firefox Blog : http://st2tea.blogspot.com PoC:...

Citigroup sites hit by Brazilian Anonymous hacker #OpWeeksPayment

Citigroup sites hit by Brazilian Anonymous hacker Citigroup has confirmed its consumer banking sites were temporarily offline Friday because of what a bank spokesman referred to as temporary outages. Hackers with Anonymous have claimed to be behind the attacks. The operation behind the attacks...

Banks Coming Together To Fight Hackers, Prevent Attacks

Major banks like Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs Group and Bank of America are putting together plans to help identify new security threats before they happen, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal this week. The financial services firms will team up with the Polytechnic Institute of N...

Iran government websites now on local server to Protect them from Cyber Attacks

Iran government websites now on local server to Protect them from Cyber Attacks An Iranian official says the country has transferred the location of most of its government websites from foreign-based hosting agencies to new computer facilities inside the country to avert potential cyber attacks...

Debian DSA-2334-1 : mahara - several vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Mahara, an electronic portfolio, weblog, and resume builder : - CVE-2011-2771 Teemu Vesala discovered that missing input sanitising of RSS feeds could lead to cross-site scripting. - CVE-2011-2772 Richard Mansfield discovered that insufficient upload...

111 Arrested for biggest identity theft and credit card fraud Case

111 Arrested for biggest identity theft and credit card fraud Case One of the biggest identity theft and credit card fraud cases in history has generated millions of dollars in losses to date. 111 individuals have been indicted in the largest identity theft takedown in U.S. history. "This is by f...

GAO Calls Out FDIC For Lax Infosecurity Measures

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation FDIC has drawn the ire of the Government Accountability Office GAO following an audit of the FDIC’s system this month. A GAO report called the government corporation out for neglecting to use strong passwords, review user access and encrypt sensitive...

AntiSec Crew Attacks FBI Contractor IRC Federal

Members of the loosely organized group conducting the AntiSec hacking campaign have compromised a company called IRC Federal, which does contracting for the FBI and other federal agencies, posting a large trove of information online in retaliation for what the group says is IRC Federal’s record o...

Education, Goverment Sites Still Serving Scammers Months Later

Back in January, Threatpost covered a story originally reported by Julien Sobrier of Zsacaler. Sobrier discovered that the websites of a number of prominent American universities and government institutions had been hijacked and were redirecting fake online stores. As it turns out, some of the...

Stolen data may be sold on cyber black market !

Hackers behind what computer security experts believe could be the biggest data theft in US history may be planning to sell the information to cyber criminals for targeted scams. And while the tens of millions of names and email addresses swiped from online marketing firm Epsilon do not appear to...

35,000 Chinese websites hacked in 2010 !

A total of 35,000 websites on the Chinese mainland were attacked by hackers in 2010, including 4,635 government websites, according to the Internet security report released by the National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Center of China CNCERT/CC on March 9. The...

OddJob Trojan Piggybacks On Legitimate eBanking Sessions

A new Trojan leads online banking customer into thinking they have logged out of their sessions when in fact they remain logged in. Discovered by Trusteer researchers, this completely new piece of malware represents the evolution of online attacks in the ways in which it integrates new and old...

Multi-Million Dollar Cyber Fraud Investigation Surrounds Exchange Students

Two international students from Vietnam are under investigation by the Department of Homeland Security on charges of identity theft and wire fraud. The two Winona State University students, Tram Vo and Khoi Van, are alleged to have taken part in a criminal ring that defrauded ecommerce merchants...

Germany to create cyber defense center !

Germany is planning the creation of a national cyber defense center in 2011 in reaction to a growing number of cyber attacks on government institutions that mostly originate in China. An interior ministry spokesman said Monday that while in 2009 the government registered only 900 attacks, there...