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...

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...

U.S. Says Cybercrime a Major National Security Threat

A new report from the National Security Council warns that international cybercrime has reached the upper echelon of threats of to the security of the United States and is responsible for as much as $1 billion in losses in just one year in the U.S. The report, which focuses on a number of broad...

French Hacker Arrested After Bragging on TV !

A French hacker who boasted on TV about hacking into the network of an important defense contractor was arrested and charged with unauthorized access to a computer system, data theft and organized fraud. The hacker appeared on the France 2 television programme "Complément d'enquête" Further...

Attack Knocks Mail and Guardian Web Site Offline

The Web site of The Mail & Guardian, a leading news outlet in South Africa, was off line on Wednesday after what the paper claims were “sustained attacks” by hackers, reportedly based in Russia. The paper pulled down its Web site, which had begun hosting malicious content and posted a message...

The World Now, "Third Age" Cyber Crime !

The year 2010 was a crime of great team and could prove to mark the beginning of a "third age" of computer crimes, security expert Graham Cluley of Sophos, said before the review of the latest threats Company year. The first period was marked by amateur hackers and virus creation on the PC, the...

Globalization Fuels Cybercrime: A Threat to Australian Credit Card Holders

Globalization benefits consumers and businesses but also provides opportunities for organized crime. Many internet criminals join or form organized crime groups, motivated by economic, cultural, or technical reasons. Globally, individuals and mafia groups engage in illegal online activities, ofte...

More Than 60 Charged in N.Y. in Zeus Scam

The Manhattan district attorney on Thursday announced charges against 36 people in connection with the operation of the Zeus malware campaign. It’s the second major bust of suspects in the Zeus investigation this week, following the arrest of 20 people in the U.K. on Tuesday. The U.S. Attorney in...

Пресечена деятельность хакеров-вымогателей

Источник: http://www.kguvd.ru/news/7 Когда: 31 Августа, 2010 Оперативники отдела "К" и УБЭП ГУВД Москвы пресекли деятельность группы хакеров, заражавших вредоносными программами компьютеры пользователей и вымогавших деньги за разблокировку. Деньги взимались с помощью платных SMS стоимостью от 300...

A Closer Look at Work at Home Scams

A recent chat with an individual who was almost tricked into helping organized criminals launder thousands of dollars stolen through e-banking fraud displayed one of the more clever and convincing money mule recruitment Web sites encountered. Read the full article. KrebsonSecurity...

Dental Practice Loses $200K to Criminals

Organized computer criminals yanked more than $200,000 out of the online bank accounts of a Missouri dental practice this month, in yet another attack that exposes the financial risks that small- to mid-sized organizations face when banking online. Read the full article. KrebsonSecurity...

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...

Heartland, TJX Attacks Look Sadly Familiar

The news that federal authorities have indicted the man they claim is responsible for the TJX attack for also allegedly hacking into the networks of Heartland Payment Systems, 7-Eleven and the Hannaford Brothers grocery chain shows that law enforcement is indeed stepping up its work on cybercrime...

Attackers becoming an industry of their own

From Wired.com Kim Zetter Attackers are becoming more and more organized and efficient in their information-stealing efforts and are using tactics gleaned from security professionals to get better at what they do. In a panel discussion at the RSA Conference, Joe Stewart of SecureWorks said the th...

BEA WebLogic 7.0 - Hostname/NetBIOS Name Remote Information Disclosure

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7257/info It has been reported that some types of requests may result in sensitive information disclosure. From this, an attacker may be able to launch a more organized attack against vulnerable hosts. GET . HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n And also: ./ .// .////////////...

Apple QuickTime/Darwin Streaming Server 4.1.x - 'parse_xml.cgi' File Disclosure

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6990/info A file retrieval vulnerability has been reported for QuickTime/Darwin Streaming Server. The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of some parameters given to the parsexml.cgi script. Information obtained in this manner may be use...