Fake Facebook Profile For NATO Senior Commander Used To Phish Senior Brass

A fake Facebook profile for NATO Senior Commander James Stavridis, a US Navy Admiral, was used to trick senior officers in both the U.S. and British military to becoming friends. The spear phishing attack is of unknown origin and is believed to have divulged a wide range of personal information o...

Chinese spied on NATO officials using Facebook Friends

Chinese spied on NATO officials using Facebook Friends An online scam has been exposed in which senior British military and government officials were tricked into becoming Facebook friends with someone masquerading as U.S. Admiral James Stavridis, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander and lead officer ...

Stuxnet Part II, III and IV

The nation-state sponsored malware arms race is on. Stuxnet may have been the “Shot heard round the world” but we think its likely that 2012 will witness a number of other skirmishes, with malware linked to foreign governments hostile to or allied with U.S. and Western nations infecting and...

What will 2012 bring? We can't know for sure

Stuxnet and the specter of sophisticated, state-sponsored attacks were still dominating the news a year ago, as 2010 ended and we welcomed the New Year. Soon enough, however, there would be a new phenomenon to contend with: hacktivists. As the attack on HBGary Federal and Sony showed, faceless...

Stuxnet Finger Pointing

Stuxnet debuted with a frenzy in 2010 after researchers exposed the malware already busily disrupting Iran’s nuclear enrichment program. That was followed this past year by continued speculation, finger pointing and even some dismissive attitudes about the worm, which targets Siemens-made...

DUQU – Another Stuxnet in the Making ?

DUQU – Another Stuxnet in the Making ? Article by : Nidhi Rastogi is a Cyber security professional based in New York. Article shared from THE HACKER NEWS magazine - November Edition. You can download Complete Magazine here. Barely a year into discovering Stuxnet, the world recently saw its powerf...

Nation-State Attackers Are Adobe's Biggest Worry

SAN FRANCISCO–It’s no secret that attackers have made Adobe’s products key targets for the last couple of years, routinely going after bugs in Reader, Flash and Acrobat in targeted attacks and widespread campaigns alike. But it’s not just the rank-and-file bad guys who are making Adobe a priority...

Senate Considers Using Mob Law To Go After Cybercriminals

Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee listened as one of the nation’s top cyber cops asked for expanded powers to go after cybercriminal groups, including the use of statutes written to combat the mafia. But confronted with the prospect of a major face lift for the U.S.’s preeminent cyber...

Verizon: RSA Hackers Using Trojans, Keyloggers In Second Wave Attacks

Customers of EMC’s RSA Security division that are worried about being the victim of an attack following the theft of sensitive data relating to that company’s SECURID tokens may not need to rush out and replace those tokens, according to security consulting firm Verizon Business. Efforts to stop...

Hackers target Al-Qaida Internet communications systems

Hackers target Al-Qaida Internet communications systems Computer hackers shut down Al-Qaida's ability to communicate its messages to the world through the Internet. Al-Qaida's online communications have been temporarily crippled.The attack was carried out within the past few days by unknown hacke...

Hackers target Al-Qaida Internet communications systems

Hackers target Al-Qaida Internet communications systems Computer hackers shut down Al-Qaida's ability to communicate its messages to the world through the Internet. Al-Qaida's online communications have been temporarily crippled.The attack was carried out within the past few days by unknown hacke...

Cisco: More Threats To Apple, Mobile Devices In 2011

Data suggests that 2010 was a year of “more of the same” when it comes to computer threats, but 2011 likely won’t be, at least according to networking giant Cisco Systems, which released its Annual Security Report on Wednesday. Cisco’s annual report on the state of security reiterated findings fr...

U.S. Needs Cybersecurity Skunk Works, Expert Says

ARLINGTON, VA–In order to address the fundamental questions surrounding the concept of cyberwar and what it might mean for both the government and the enterprise, the United States should develop a skunk works-type think tank comprising highly skilled private-sector security experts as well as...

Hackers will not be deterred by UK cyber defences !

Military "cyber weaponry" will become commonplace this century, but it will be unlikely to deter attacks by "hacktivists" and criminal gangs, and could easily be used for state-sponsored cyber attacks instead, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development warns. The British authors o...

New York Times: Stuxnet A Joint US-Israeli Operation

Details of the Stuxnet worm’s origins and functioning have been seeping into the media, tidbit by intriguing tidbit, since last Summer, when news of the worm went mainstream. But a new exclusive from the New York Times breaks the Stuxnet story wide open, confirming oft-cited theories that it was ...

Recent WikiLeaks-Related Cyberattacks Prompt Call for Policy Changes

In New York on Sunday, lawmakers urged President Obama to expand the U.S. State Department’s foreign policy mechanisms to address crime and security on the Internet. They cited recent attacks on companies severing ties with WikiLeaks as a main reason for these changes. At Symantec's New York City...

Top 10 IT Security Trends for 2011

The crystal ball gazing has started early this year. Typically, tech prediction pieces emerge after Christmas, but the first 'security trends for 2011' missive has already dropped into my inbox. So, what does the somewhat premature Imperva Application Defense Center think will worry us the most o...

Microsoft Missed 2009 Published Article on Stuxnet-Type Attack

A security flaw affecting Microsoft’s Windows operating system that was exploited by the Stuxnet worm was publicly disclosed more than a year before the worm appeared, according to a researcher at Symantec Corp. On September 17, Symantec researcher Liam O Murchu noted on that company’s Connect bl...

Researchers: Google Aurora Attackers Back in Business?

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in your e-mail…Researchers say a new round of targeted attacks appear to come from the same group responsible for attacks against Google and other top U.S. firms. Writing on the Symantec Security blog...

K-Search - SQL Injection / Cross-Site Scripting

Category: K-Search SQL/XSS Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities Download: http://turn-k.net/k-search/demo Dork: inurl:K-Search, Powered By K-Search Author: Sangteamtham at hcegroupdotnet Homepage: HCE group - bug-z0ne.info Info: K-Search provides you a quick and easy way to start your own meta-search...