LivingSocial Ups its Password Encryption After Breach

The popular daily deal site LivingSocial announced Monday it has abandoned the SHA1 hash for Blowfish’s bcrypt following a massive data breach that impacted 50 million customers. The company confirmed last weekend that its computer systems were attacked and thieves gained access to names, e-mail...

Malware Poses as US Department of Justice Violation Notice

Posing as the US Department of Justice DoJ, a new variant of the Citadel Malware called Reveton is responsible for a ransomware campaign that attempts to extort $100 from its victims. The infections are occurring after users are lured to a drive-by download site where a dropper installs the Citad...

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...

Escrow Firm Loses Nearly $500K from Online Thieves

A California escrow firm has been forced to take out a pricey loan to pay back $465,000 that was stolen when hackers hijacked the company’s online bank account earlier this year. Read the full article. KrebsonSecurity...

ID Thieves Took $4 Million from Tax Returns

A group of sophisticated identity thieves managed to steal more than $4 million by filing bogus tax returns using the names and Social Security numbers of other people, many of them deceased, according to a 74-count indictment unsealed in Arizona. Read the full article. Wired...

Ark. Utility, N.J. Town Hit By Online Thieves

An Arkansas public water utility and a New Jersey town are the latest victims of an organized cyber crime gang that is stealing tens of millions of dollars from small to mid-sized organizations via online bank theft. Read the full article. KrebsonSecurity...

IT Consultancy Defrauded of $100K

A New Hampshire-based IT consultancy lost nearly $100,000 this month after thieves broke into the company’s bank accounts with the help of 10 co-conspirators across the United States. Read the full article. KrebsonSecruity...

Researcher Finds Twitter Botnet Command Channel

Arbor Networks security researcher Jose Nazario has stumbled upon a crimeware botnet using Twitter as its command-and-control operation. The botnet, which is linked to identity thieves in Brazil, uses Twitter status messages to communicate with bots — sending new links for the infected computers ...

Researcher Finds Twitter Botnet Command Channel

Arbor Networks security researcher Jose Nazario has stumbled upon a crimeware botnet using Twitter as its command-and-control operation. The botnet, which is linked to identity thieves in Brazil, uses Twitter status messages to communicate with bots — sending new links for the infected computers ...

Cyber thieves ten trick-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Peeping five formula One, you enter the account number when not found behind the eye, someone secretly took down your account. Second, you in the cafe Internet, after the Internet leaves a record, someone with the decryption tool will be your password to unscramble it. Third, you go to repair...

U disk thieves the DIY-bug warning-the black bar safety net

See an issue of hacker line of Defense on the on the description write“U disk thieves”that steal U disk all files of the program in the article, anyway also nothing to do, himself wrote one. Below is a used VC++plus MFC to write, I use C API to write, and the name is“U disk thief”, otherwise how...