56 Hackers Arrested in Cyber Crime 'Strike Week' Raids in UK

The United Kingdom's National Crime Agency NCA has arrested 56 suspected hackers in a campaign against cybercrime called "strike week." Law-enforcement officials conducted, in total, 25 separate operations across England, Scotland and Wales, and those arrested were suspected in a wide range of...

$1.75 Million in Bitcoin Stolen from Chinese BTER Bitcoin Exchange

The most popular Chinese Bitcoin exchange BTER announced that it has been hacked on Valentine’s Day and lost more than £1.1 Million-worth $1.75 Million; one BTC is about $270 of the digital currency. The Bitcoin Exchange hasn't revealed more details about suspects behind the breach or how the col...

UK Police Arrested Second Hacker Over PlayStation and Xbox DDoS attacks

A UK man linked to the notorious hacking group, Lizard Squad, that claimed responsibility for knocking Sony’s PlayStation Network and Microsoft’s Xbox Live offline on Christmas Day has been arrested by the United Kingdom police. Lizard Squad launched simultaneous Distributed Denial-of-Service DDo...

Teen Arrested in UK for Xbox, PlayStation Attacks

Police in the UK, working in cooperation with the FBI, arrested an 18-year-old man Friday in connection with recent DDoS attacks on the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live services. The authorities arrested the unnamed man in Southport, and he is being held on suspicion of computer crime and...

Dridex Banking Trojan Spreading Via Office Macros

The left-for-dead Office macro has apparently made a comeback with cybercriminals who have found them to be a good hiding place for banking malware. Recently, Microsoft reported a spike in the use of macros in hacking campaigns, peaking in mid-December. This has been corroborated by researchers a...

Syrian Electronic Army Hacks UK based Media Websites

Syrian Electronic Army SEA, a pro-hacker group supposed to be aligned with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has again gain media attention by compromising a number of popular news websites and displayed a Thanksgiving popups informing people that they've been hacked. The Forbes, The Independent,...

The sword refers to the Android and iOS system DoubleDirect middle attack-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

A security researcher found a new man in the middle attack technique, it targets mostly run of the Android system and iOS system of smartphone and tablets. This is called DoubleDirect of art belonging to the middleman（MITM attack. An attacker can use this technique to put the victim to visit...

FBI Arrested CEO of 'StealthGenie' for Selling Mobile Spyware Apps

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has arrested the CEO of a UK-based company for allegedly advertising and selling a spyware app to individuals who suspect their romantic partners of cheating on them. The dodgy cell phone spyware application, dubbed as StealthGenie, monitors victims’ phone...

uk-cookie - Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

The uk-cookie WordPress plugin was affected by a Cross-Site Scripting XSS security vulnerability...

uk-cookie - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

The uk-cookie WordPress plugin was affected by a Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF security vulnerability...

Creative Software UK Community Portal 1.1 ArticleView.php article_id Parameter SQL Injection

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17890/info Creative Community Portal is prone to multiple SQL-injection vulnerabilities. These issues are due to a failure in the application to properly sanitize user-supplied input before using it in SQL queries. A...

Creative Software UK Community Portal 1.1 PollResults.php Multiple Parameter SQL Injection

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17890/info Creative Community Portal is prone to multiple SQL-injection vulnerabilities. These issues are due to a failure in the application to properly sanitize user-supplied input before using it in SQL queries. A...

Box UK Amaxus CMS 3.0 Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15936/info Box UK Amaxus CMS is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure in the application to properly sanitize user-supplied input. An attacker may leverage this issue to have...

UK One Media CMS (id) Error Based SQL Injection Vulnerability

No description provided by source. O / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ | | | | | UK One Media CMS id Error Based SQL Injection Vulnerability | | | | | | | | Summary: Conte...

eBay and PayPal UK website hacked by Syrian Electronic Army

A pro-hacker group, aligned with president Bashar al-Assad, very well known as Syrian Electronic Army SEA has again gained the media attention by adding the popular sites, i.e. eBay UK and PayPal UK to its victim list. After targeting websites of various media agencies, government organizations a...

UK government planning to ditch Microsoft for Open Source alternatives

Downfall in the monopoly of propriety software like Microsoft and Apple accelerated after the Snowden revelations of NSA spying, where technology giants like Microsoft, Google, Apple are sharing a bed with the NSA. The UK government is again planning to ditch Microsoft for Open Source and Free...

Patched Microsoft Office 365 XSS Vulnerability Disclosed

A researcher in the UK disclosed the details of a serious cross-site scripting vulnerability in Office 365 that would allow an attacker with a mailbox on Office 365 to gain administrator rights over the Microsoft Web-based application in an organization. An exploit in an enterprise environment...

EE BrightBox Router Vulnerabilities Exposed

Leave it to a software test engineer to be thorough about his home networking gear. Scott Helme, an engineer in the U.K., likes to take a close look at traffic coming and going from new devices installed at his home. Recently, he signed up for fiber service from Everything Everywhere, an ISP in t...

UK CPNI Releases Spear Phishing Paper

The United Kingdom's Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure CPNI has recently released a paper titled "Spear Phishing - Understanding the Threat;" this document provides guidance on how spear phishing attacks work, whether you are likely to be a target, and the steps organizations c...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Package Detainment Notification Email Messages on December 2, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 31960 First Published: 2013 December 3 00:36 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a package detainment notification from UK Customs and Border Protection for the recipient. The text in the ema...