Variant of SpyEye Targets Android Devices

Researchers at security firm Trusteer claim a new version of the SpyEye Trojan horse program that targets mobile banking users with Android mobile phones and intercepts SMS text messages to and from the phone. However, significant obstacles may prevent it from spreading. Writing on the company’s...

Two Suspected Anonymous/LulzSec hackers arrested by British police

Two Suspected Anonymous/LulzSec hackers arrested by British police Officers from the Metropolitan Police Service's Central e-Crime Unit PCeU have today, 1 September, arrested two men for conspiring to commit offences under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. Two men, aged 20 and 24, have been arrested ...

F-Secure : Chinese Government Launching Online Attacks

F-Secure : Chinese Government Launching Online Attacks According to F-Secure Chinese military documentary shows footage of gov't systems launching attacks against US target. China is often blamed for launching online attacks, but the evidence is almost always circumstantial. Many of the targeted...

F-Secure : Chinese Government Launching Online Attacks

F-Secure : Chinese Government Launching Online Attacks According to F-Secure Chinese military documentary shows footage of gov't systems launching attacks against US target. China is often blamed for launching online attacks, but the evidence is almost always circumstantial. Many of the targeted...

How Did One Of The World's Poorer Countries Become its Top Source of Online Attacks?

What country serves up the biggest share of online attacks? The U.S., you say? It’s the world’s largest and most advanced economy. China maybe? Its growing fast, with billions of citizens and hundreds of millions of Internet users. How about Russia? Try Myanmar. The southeast Asian country that’s...

Hacker claims credit for shutdown of WBC church's Website !

Twitter post suggests 'The Jester' may have been responsible for knocking controversial church offline A Twitter message from Monday suggests that a seld-proclaimed "hacktivist" using the handle The Jester may have been responsible for knocking the controversial Westboro Baptist Church offline. I...

2) Set Web browsers to "stun"

Cyber criminals know that Web browsers are like mothers: everybody’s got one. They also know that if you’re shopping online, you’re using your Web browser to do it. That’s why Web based attacks are one of the most popular kind avenue of compromise and online. The good news is that most modern Web...

Image of the Day: Mapping E-banking Fraud

We spend our days combing the ‘Net for interesting security happenings and also noting the great work that other reporters and researchers are doing on the security front. Usually that means traditional reporting work: pulling together information from a bunch of different sources, digging for...

After Twitter Hack, NY Times Debates Social Network Security

In the wake of a high profile though harmless cross site scripting attack launched from Twitter.com’s Web site, the New York Times is sponsoring a debate about the security of online social networks that offers some harsh criticism of the micro blogging site. The Gray Lady pulled together top nam...

Social Engineering in Real-World Computer Attacks

Why bother breaking down the door if you can simply ask to be let in? The SANS Diary has an excellent entry on just how valuable social engineering is to attackers — whether during penetration testing or as part of real world attacks. It explores the techniques used to marry offline social...

SMBs, Non-Profits New Targets of Choice for Attackers

Large enterprises and consumers have been dealing with sophisticated phishing scams, online extortion plots and other assorted theft schemes for years, but now attackers are turning their attention to the huge population of small businesses and non-profits in the U.S. And they are finding a gold...

Gently bypass your CAPTCHA-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Certificate code that each time you access the page when randomly generated pictures, the content is generally numbers and letters and more BT points of the Chinese, Oh, a visitor put the figure numbers in the letters fill in to the form submission, thus effectively preventing brute force. CAPTCH...