Feds Indict 5 in Carson, CA Crimes

Five people were indicted this week on wire fraud and other criminal charges stemming from a 2007 cybertheft in which nearly $450,000 was stolen from the bank accounts of the city of Carson, California using credential-stealing spyware. Read the full article. Computerworld...

jdwp-version NSE Script

Detects the Java Debug Wire Protocol. This protocol is used by Java programs to be debugged via the network. It should not be open to the public Internet, as it does not provide any security against malicious attackers who can inject their own bytecode into the debugged process. Documentation for...

ID Theft Criminal Sentenced to 309 Years in Prison

Robert Thompson, also known as John Lawson, age 43, of Zachary, La., was sentenced to a term of 309 years in prison. Thompson, the leader of a massive identity theft and bribery scheme, was sentenced based on charges of conspiracy, wire fraud, mail fraud, bank fraud, computer fraud, access device...

Former Researcher Iceman Sentenced to 13 Years

A former security researcher turned criminal hacker has been sentenced to 13 years in federal prison for hacking into financial institutions and stealing credit card account numbers. Max Ray Butler, who used the hacker pseudonym Iceman, was sentenced Friday morning in U.S. District Court in...

Researchers Discover New ACH Banker Trojan

Malware hunters at SecureWorks have intercepted a new banker Trojan being used by cyber-criminals to steal financial credentials from banks in the U.S. The Trojan, dubbed “Bugat,” targets Automated Clearing House ACH and wire transfer transactions by small- and mid-sized business in the U.S., muc...

Massachusetts Man Arrested for Hacked Modems

Matthew Delorey of New Bedford, MA was arrested on wire fraud and conspiracy charges relating to his sale of hacked cable modems modified to permit a user to hide his or her identity and steal service from Internet service providers. Read the full statement. FBI.gov...

FBI Reports Malware on Rise in Electronic Funds Fraud

The FBI reports it has seen a rise of malware over the past few months targeting small and medium businesses and municipal government entities and school districts. Once a malicious attachment or link is opened, keylogging tactics obtain bank account info where criminals then initiate wire...

Guilt by Association: Modem Hacker Arrested for Others' Crimes

Hardware hacker and author, Ryan Harris, aka “DerEngel,” has been arrested in Boston for aiding and abetting intrusion and wire fraud. Harris oversees TCNiSO, a group who hacks cable modems and other hardware. Harris thinks he is being busted for the plights of those who took performance-boosting...

Code injection

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in ReSIProcate before 1.3.4 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service stack consumption via unknown network traffic with a large "bytes-in-memory/bytes-on-wire ratio."...

PT-2006-5318 · 2Wire · Officeportal +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: 2Wire, Inc. HomePortal and OfficePortal Series modems and routers affected versions not specified Description: The issue concerns the web-based management interface, which can be crashed by remote attackers through a specific sequence in a GE...

[eVuln] Wire Plastik wpBlog SQL Injection Vulnerability

New eVuln Advisory: Wire Plastik wpBlog SQL Injection Vulnerability http://evuln.com/vulns/119/summary.html --------------------Summary---------------- eVuln ID: EV0119 CVE: CVE-2006-1639 Software: wpBlog Sowtware's Web Site: http://www.wireplastik.com/ Versions: 0.4 Critical Level: Moderate Type...

Lime Wire Multiple Remote Unauthorized Access

The remote host seems to be running Lime Wire, a P2P file sharing program. This version is vulnerable to remote unauthorized access flaws. An attacker can access to potentially sensitive files on the remote vulnerable host. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2005 David Maciejak Some text descriptions might ...

FreeBSD : ethereal -- multiple vulnerabilities (efa1344b-5477-11d9-a9e7-0001020eed82)

An Ethreal Security Advisories reports : Issues have been discovered in the following protocol dissectors : - Matthew Bing discovered a bug in DICOM dissection that could make Ethereal crash. - An invalid RTP timestamp could make Ethereal hang and create a large temporary file, possibly filling...

Lime Wire Multiple Remote Unauthorized Access

The remote host seems to be running Lime Wire, a P2P file sharing program. This version is vulnerable to remote unauthorized access flaws. An attacker can access to potentially sensitive files on the remote vulnerable host. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description...