Cyber Security Week in Review (March 28)

Welcome to this week's Cyber Security Week in Review, where Cisco Talos runs down all of the news we think you need to know in the security world. Top headlines this week ASUS had to release an emergency fix for a malware that may have accidentally deployed to their machines. Attackers may have...

ON PREM vs. CLOUD.

Security and Other considerations. Part 2 By Johan Nordstrom To be able to keep up with the development of new security threats, companies need to rethink their security strategies. The basics must be to decrease complexity and use automated solutions when possible. There has been a change in the...

Mexico’s Banking System Sees $18M Siphoned Off in Phantom Transactions

Somewhere between $18 million to $20 million has gone missing during unauthorized interbank money transfers in Mexico’s central banking system. Authorities are investigating the shadow transactions, but answers are thus far scarce. The affected banks and government officials are determining wheth...

Skype Log Viewer - Download and View Skype History Without Skype

Download and View Skype History Without Skype. This program allows you to view all of your skype chat logs and then easily export them as text files. It correctly organizes them by conversation, and makes sure that group conversations do not get jumbled with one on one chats. Features Download...

Dutch Police Seize Another Company that Sells PGP-Encrypted Blackberry Phones

The Dutch police arrested four suspects on Tuesday on suspicion of money laundering and involvement in selling custom encrypted BlackBerry and Android smartphones to criminals. The Dutch National High Tech Crime Unit NHTCU, dedicated team within the Dutch National Police Agency aims to investigat...

My Baby Gets Organized - Customized SSL, Dangerous filesystem permissions, WebView SSL handling enabled vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application My Baby Gets Organized published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

SlemBunk Part II: Prolonged Attack Chain and Better-Organized Campaign

Introduction Our follow-up investigation of a nasty Android banking malware we identified at the tail end of last year has not only revealed that the trojan is more persistent than we initially realized – thus making for a much more dangerous threat – but that it is also being used as part of an...

D-Link Webcam Hack Turns IoT Device into Backdoor

Connecting a webcam to your home or office network might seem like a harmless thing, but researchers have figured out how to turn that connected device into a backdoor. Researchers at Vectra Networks today released a report demonstrating how a $30 D-Link webcam can be abused by attackers and turn...

Gozi Co-Author Pleads Guilty As Authors Behind Citadel, Dridex Arrested

The author behind one strain of banking malware, Gozi, has plead guilty and is awaiting sentencing while two other men, who allegedly had a hand in developing the banking malware Citadel and Dridex, were recently apprehended. Latvian Deniss Calovskis, 30, acknowledged in a federal court in New Yo...

TOPO 1.41 Remote Path Disclosure Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6768/info It has been reported that TOPo may return information to users that is sensitive in nature. Under some circumstances, it is possible to produce an error message that reveals information about web directory...

CBI arrests Indian mastermind behind Hire-a-Hacker service on FBI tip-off

For the first time in history, Indian Law Enforcement Agency 'Central Bureau of Investigation' CBI has arrested a Cyber criminal after getting a tip-off from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI. 33-Year-old Amit Vikram Tiwari, son of an Indian Army colonel and an engineering dropout, who...

Politics, Uncertainty Slowing Down U.S. Response to Cyber Threats

WASHINGTON–The shift in the last few years to cyberespionage and online attacks against the nation’s critical infrastructure have left the United States government lagging behind, and “a day late and a dollar short”, the former director of the National Security Agency said. The ongoing campaigns...

Anonymous Threatens to Shutdown Facebook - Dude, do you have any Idea ?

Do you believe that it is possible to shut down Facebook with a cyber attack on 5th November 2012, which is not even organised in a proper way ? Few activists on internet threatened to shut down Zynga and Facebook, after the gaming giant announced it was laying off five per cent of its work force...

Philippine police arrest 357 foreigners for cyber fraud

Police on Thursday rounded up 357 foreigners accused of duping Taiwanese and Chinese citizens in an online scam in what an official described as the largest single-day operation against organized crime in the country. Director Samuel Pagdilao Jr., CIDG director, said CIDG and Paocc agents led by...

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...

Russian Mafia Organizes to Double Cybercrime Profits in 2011

The dollar-value of online criminal activity conducted by the Russian mafia and other criminal organizations doubled in 2011, according to a new report from the Russian security firm Group-IB. The global cyber crime market was worth $12.5 billion in 2011, the report claims. Russian-speaking...

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...

In UK Analytics Software Provides Enhanced (Online) Interrogation For Fraud Suspects

A recent report by the UK’s Serious Organized Crime Agency SOCA shows that the Agency is full speed ahead with plans to use powerful data analytics tools to help find and prosecute everything from money laundering to illegal gambling to 419 scams. The 2011 Annual Report on Suspicious Activity...

Personal Information of 3.5 Million Poker Players Spilled Online

Customers of the online poker Website Ultimate Bet UB are the victims of a data breach that spilled the private information of up to 3.5 million of its customers online over the weekend. Ultimate Bet, a property of the Cereus Poker Network, saw a slew of customer information posted online includi...

Biggest Identity Theft Bust Ever Nets 111 In New York

Authorities in New York have arrested more than 100 people accused of participating in an identity theft scam that generated $13 million in illicit profits fore crime gains in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East, according to a statement from the District Attorney for Queens County. The...