Economic offences, cyber crime set to rise !!

Due to an increase in computer usage in private as well as the government sector, the police recorded a sharp rise in cyber crime last year. A desktop computer is a staple in most households, and use of laptops, net books and smart phones are a rage among everyone — from kids aged six to senior...

Police warns - Beware Facebook scams !

Sophisticated scam artists are raiding blackberries, I-phones and personal computers and are using sites like Facebook to steal identities and money by fooling friends, Halifax police warn. Det. Const. Dana Drover said Wednesday the best way to protect yourself at home — or using public Wi-Fi — i...

Beware : Google illegally collected private info !

Police confirmed Thursday that Google, the world's largest online search engine operator, illegally collected and stored personal data sent over unsecured Wi-Fi wireless networks here while creating the localized version of its online mapping service. Korea and 15 other countries, including the...

Nook Color Bluetooth Chip Hacked !

Barnes and Noble's full color touch screen, Wi-Fi and 3G enabled eReader tablet NOOK color ships with a Bluetooth chip that is not activated. Well, not anymore. A user occip at XDA-developers has managed to start the Bluetooth on the device and scanning and connecting to devices is working well...

Identity Theft : It's cyber crime you should be scared of !

The number of Britons targeted by cybercrime is expected to overtake conventional crime for the first time next year. Internet security experts claim that up to 19 million people will come under attack from hi-tech criminals, generally involved in identity theft. While at one time, the biggest...

Injecting Fake Updates: Evilgrade

Evilgrade is a modular framework that allows the user to take advantage of poor upgrade implementations by injecting fake updates. It comes with pre-made binaries agents, a working default configuration for fast pentests, and has it’s own WebServer and DNSServer modules. Easy to set up new...

New Firefox add-on "Firesheep" - hijacks Facebook, Twitter sessions

A new Firefox add-on called "Firesheep," developed by Seattle-based freelance Web application developer Eric Butler, enables almost anyone to scan a Wi-Fi network and hijack others' access to popular services like Facebook, Twitter, and others. Butler unveiled Firesheep at the ToorCon security...

Apple заблокировала сайт Jailbreakme.com

Для компании Apple появление сайта Jailbreakme.com, позволяющего в два счета обходить защиту устройств на iOS, стало полной неожиданностью. В настоящее время она латает уязвимость в приложении PDF и обещает выпустить безопасное обновление в скором времени. После запуска Jailbreakme.com в Сети...

Researchers Discover WPA2 Wi-Fi Flaw

Researchers who will present at Black Hat have discovered a hole in the WPA2 Wi-Fi security protocol. The security hole was named as Hole 196 after the number of the relevant page in the IEEE 802.11 2007 standard document. Read the full article. The H Security...

D-Link DAP-1160 Unauthenticated Remote Configuration

Security Advisory IS-2010-004 - D-Link DAP-1160 Unauthenticated Remote Configuration Advisory Information -------------------- Published: 2010-06-28 Updated: 2010-06-28 Manufacturer: D-Link Model: DAP-1160 Firmware version: 1.20b06 1.30b10 1.31b01 Vulnerability Details --------------------- Publi...

IS-2010-004 - D-Link DAP-1160 Unauthenticated Remote Configuration

Security Advisory IS-2010-004 - D-Link DAP-1160 Unauthenticated Remote Configuration Advisory Information -------------------- Published: 2010-06-28 Updated: 2010-06-28 Manufacturer: D-Link Model: DAP-1160 Firmware version: 1.20b06 1.30b10 1.31b01 Vulnerability Details --------------------- Publi...

Hacker Charged Who Sent Threats to VP Biden

A hacker tried to frame his neighbor by tapping into his Wi-Fi and sending threatening emails to US vice president Joe Biden, according to search warrant affidavits unsealed recently. Read the full article. The Register...

Last Week in Security

This was an amazingly busy news week in the security world, with a lot of major stories competing for your attention: Microsoft sharing pre-patch vulnerability data with foreign governments, IBM handing out certified pre-owned USB keys, Google spying on Wi-Fi users. If you missed anything, never...

Google in Apology Mode After WiFi Data Grab

Google co-founder Sergey Brin says the company “screwed up” when it equipped its world-roving Street View cars with software code that spent three years capturing personal data from open Wi-Fi networks. “Let me just say: We screwed up,” Brin told a room full of reporters this afternoon at the...

Microsoft Patches Worm Holes in Mail Server, Visual Basic for Apps

Microsoft today issued patches for a pair of critical remote code execution vulnerabilities in Windows and Microsoft Office and urged affected users to apply the fixes as soon as possible. The most serious issue, addressed in the MS10-030 bulletin, affects Outlook Express, Windows Mail and Window...

CVE-2009-4821

The D-Link DIR-615 with firmware 3.10NA does not require administrative authentication for apply.cgi, which allows remote attackers to 1 change the admin password via the adminpassword parameter, 2 disable the security requirement for the Wi-Fi network via unspecified vectors, or 3 modify DNS...

Design/Logic Flaw

The D-Link DIR-615 with firmware 3.10NA does not require administrative authentication for apply.cgi, which allows remote attackers to 1 change the admin password via the adminpassword parameter, 2 disable the security requirement for the Wi-Fi network via unspecified vectors, or 3 modify DNS...

CVE-2009-4821

The D-Link DIR-615 with firmware 3.10NA does not require administrative authentication for apply.cgi, which allows remote attackers to 1 change the admin password via the adminpassword parameter, 2 disable the security requirement for the Wi-Fi network via unspecified vectors, or 3 modify DNS...

CVE-2009-4821

CVE-2009-4821 affects the D-Link DIR-615 router (firmware 3.10NA). The vulnerability is that apply.cgi does not require administrative authentication, allowing remote attackers to (1) change the admin password via the admin_password parameter, (2) disable the Wi‑Fi security requirement via unspec...

iPhone, Android, Others Get Man in the Middle Treatment

Security researchers have released a paper detailing successful man-in-the-middle attacks against several smartphones. The SSL enabled log in sessions on the tested, Nokia N95, HTC Tilt, Android G1 and iPhone 3GS devices was sniffed using the publicly available SSLstrip tool, with the attack taki...