U.S. Still Tops at Hosting Phishing Sites

There are a lot of things that the United States is no longer so good at doing: eating vegetables or winning major marathons, for example. But one thing that the U.S. still does really well is provide comfortable hosting platforms for phishing sites. In fact, about 60 percent of all phishing site...

Scientific Linux Security Update : tzdata on SL3.x, SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64

This update addresses several changes in Daylight Savings Time DST observation including the following : - on February 17th 2010, it was announced that Paraguay would extend its 2010 DST observance to Sunday, 11th April 2010. It had been scheduled to end on Sunday, 14th March 2010. The same...

CVE-2011-4591

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the printobject function in lib/datalib.php in Moodle 2.0.x before 2.0.6 and 2.1.x before 2.1.3, when a developer debugging script is enabled, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving object states...

New Fraud Ring 'Operation High Roller' Targets the Rich

A recent fraud ring through which attackers raided high-value bank accounts, nicknamed Operation High Roller .PDF, employed attacks that were quick, required no human interaction and have already affected several tiers of credit unions, regional banks and large global banks, over the last several...

Two Members of LulzSec Plead Guilty to Cyber Crimes

Two members of the hacker group Lulz Security LulzSec pleaded guilty today to taking part in a cyber crime spree that launched attacks against Web sites belonging to law enforcement, corporations and media companies. Ryan Cleary, 20, of Wickford, Essex and Jake Davis, 19, of Lerwick, Shetland...

Intel Processor SYSRET Vulnerability Affecting Some 64-Bit Systems

A flaw exists in the way that a specific instruction is handled on some types of Intel 64-bit chips that could open up some operating systems and types of virtualization software to attacks, according to an alert issued last week but revised today by the United States Computer Emergency Readiness...

DNSChanger Lingers: 330k Systems Still Infected, 77,000 In The U.S.

The FBI said that there are still more than 330,000 computers believed to be infected with the DNSChanger malware, with just weeks to go before a court order to cut off their ability to communicate with the rest of the Internet. Fully 77,000 are located in the U.S., according to data provided to...

MIT Students Use LED Lights, Hack Building to Play Tetris

Students at MIT took to the university’s Cecil and Ida Green Building over the weekend to transform the 21-story research building into an oversized, playable game of Tetris. Emulating the classic ’80s video game with the help of a console and 153 color-changing LED lights, students were able to...

Iran Replicating Captured U.S. Drone RQ-170 Sentinel

Iran Replicating Captured U.S. Drone RQ-170 Sentinel Iranian military aerospace chief General Amir Ali Hajizadeh was quoted having said:"The Americans should be aware to what extent we have infiltrated the plane." Iran has broke the encryption codes and begun construction of a replica of the Unit...

Botnets, DDoS attacks as weapon against financial sector

Botnets, DDoS attacks as weapon against financial sector DDOS attacks against the financial sector almost tripled during the first quarter of this year, according to DDoS mitigation specialist Prolexic. The firm also reported a 3,000 per cent quarter-on-quarter increase in malicious packet traffi...

Fedora 17 : openstack-nova-2012.1-0.10.rc1.fc17 (2012-4889)

CVE-2012-1585: Long server names grow nova-api log files significantly Avoid killing dnsmasq on network service shutdown. update to Essex RC1 which fixes 159 bugs detailed here: https://launchpad.net/nova/essex/essex-rc1 Features : - Support non blocking libvirt operations Bugs : - Suppress error...

Anonymous plans to take down Great Firewall of China

Anonymous plans to take down Great Firewall of China Anonymous plans to launch more attacks on Chinese government Web sites in an effort to highlight corruption and push for human rights improvements. While they managed to deface well over 500 sites we are now hearing they aren't finished yet and...

CNCERT Claims - Raising Web attacks on China

CNCERT Claims - Raising Web attacks on China China's National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team CNCERT/CCis claiming attacks on public and private organisations from outside of its borders have rocketed in the past year from five million computers affected in 2010 to 8.9m in 2011...

Roman Andreev wins Facebook Hacker Cup 2012

Roman Andreev wins Facebook Hacker Cup 2012 25 of the world's best hackers gathered for Facebook's 2nd annual Hacker Cup event being held at its offices in Menlo Park. Roman Andreev from Russia completed one problem correctly in 1 hr 4 min and won Facebook's Hacker Cup to get his name placed on a...

Rogue Antivirus advertised on 200000 hacked Web pages

Rogue Antivirus advertised on 200000 hacked Web pages The Websense has detected a new wave of mass-injections of a well-known rogue antivirus campaign, a new mass injection attack has infected over 200,000 Web pages, amounting to close to 30,000 unique Web hosts. The attack uses SQL injection...

Crime with $50 GPS jammer increasing rapidly in UK

Crime with $50 GPS jammer increasing rapidly in UK Too many are using illegal GPS jamming devices on UK roads, according to a study, and are putting critical emergency systems at risk of failure and it's at extreme risk from criminals, terrorist organizations and rogue states and even someone wit...

United States Census Bureau Hacked and Vulnerability Exposed

United States Census Bureau Hacked and Vulnerability Exposed A Group of Hackers from r00tw0rm found SQL injection Vulnerability on United States Census Bureau,0x3a,user\,0x3a,database\,4,5,groupconcat\tablename+from+informationschema.tables--+ and Hackers successfully exploit the Database and...

UBUNTU-CVE-2011-4086

The journalunmapbuffer function in fs/jbd2/transaction.c in the Linux kernel before 3.3.1 does not properly handle the Delay and Unwritten buffer head states, which allows local users to cause a denial of service system crash by leveraging the presence of an ext4 filesystem that was mounted with ...

EU Asks Google to Delay Privacy Policy Changes

European officials want Google to slow its plans to introduce a new privacy policy so that they can investigate whether or not it is strong enough to protect user data. The Article 29 Working Party, which is comprised of European data protection officials as well as a representative from the...

Iran government websites now on local server to Protect them from Cyber Attacks

Iran government websites now on local server to Protect them from Cyber Attacks An Iranian official says the country has transferred the location of most of its government websites from foreign-based hosting agencies to new computer facilities inside the country to avert potential cyber attacks...