Honestly there hasn’t been much news over the holiday period, well maybe there was but no one bothered reporting it. There was the Stratfor case of course, which Anonymous is saying wasn’t anything to do with them. The scale of this inciden…
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US Subway Stores POS Hacked For $3Million Dollars
Posted in December 28th, 2011
by admin in Cezar Iulian Butu, credit card hack, Exploits/Vulnerabilities, General Hacking, hack, hacking credit cards, Legal Issues, rss, stealing credit card details, subway, subway credit card fraud, subway hack, subway hacked, subway security
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GCHQ Code Breaking Challenge Solved Through Googling
Posted in December 5th, 2011
by admin in british government, code breaking, code breaking puzzle, gchq, gchq hacking challenge, gchq hacking test, hacking challenge, hacking test, Legal Issues, privacy, rss
This is quite an amusing story, I’m sure many of you have read about the ‘hacking challenge’ set up by GCHQ and that they are looking to hire hackers cyber-security specialists through non-traditional channels. The thing that tickled …
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Julian Assange Hires Pirate Bay Lawyer
Posted in November 18th, 2011
by admin in assange, bjorn hurtig, extradited, extradition, julian assange, julian assange extradition, lawyers, Legal Issues, per samuelson, pirate bay, rss, swedish extradition, wikileaks
We do write about Julian Assange from time to time – the last time was about WikiLeaks Attacks Causing Rival DDoS Retaliation. Sadly however, the legal issues Mr Assange is facing are nothing to do with his rather famous site, but rather to do wi…
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Apple Bans Security Researcher Charlie Miller For Exposing iOS Exploit
Posted in November 9th, 2011
by admin in Apple, apple-security, charlie miller, Exploits/Vulnerabilities, hacking apple, hacking ios, ios, ios code signing, ios exploit, ios flaw, ios security, ios vulnerability, Legal Issues, rss, security researcher, white hat
The latest wave in the infosec world is that Apple has banned the well known security researcher – Charlie Miller – from it’s developer program for exposing a new iOS exploit. It’s not really the smartest move as I’m prett…
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German Federal Trojan (0zapftis/Bundestrojaner) Eavesdrops On Skype, IE, Firefox, MSN Messenger & More
Posted in October 20th, 2011
by admin in 0zapftis, Bundestrojaner, german federal trojan, german trojan, germany, hacking, kasperksy, Legal Issues, Malware, privacy, r2d2 trojan, rss, trojans, wiretapping
It’s always good to have some news about government conspiracy theories, or in this case government propagated malware. The last case I remember reporting on was – Tunisia Running Country Wide Facebook, Gmail & Yahoo! Password Capture….
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The U.S. Department of Defense Hit With $4.9B Lawsuit Over Data Breach
Posted in October 17th, 2011
by admin in class action suit, data breach, defence department, lawsuit, Legal Issues, privacy, privacy breach, privacy loss, rss, tricare, us defence department, us defense department, us department of defense, us healthcare breach
We haven’t published anything about the Defense Department for a while, the last news really was the whole RSA SecurID thing which affected some of the US DoD sub-contractors. The latest news is they’ve been hit with a colossal lawsuit of a…
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VeriSign Demands The Power To Take Down Websites/Domains
Posted in October 12th, 2011
by admin in domain takedown, icann, Legal Issues, Registry Services Evaluation Process, rsep, rss, Social Engineering, url takedown, verisign, verisign takedown power, Web Hacking
I was scanning the news today, and nothing much was going on. There were some half-arsed stories about Anonymous and LulzSec – but nothing really worth writing about. And then, and then I spotted this, which quite frankly scares the shit out of m…
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Script Kiddies Lay Claim To NBC News Twitter Account Hack
Posted in September 13th, 2011
by admin in Exploits/Vulnerabilities, hackers, Legal Issues, NBC, nbc news, nbc news twitter account, nbc news twitter hack, nbc twitter, nbc twitter hack, privacy, rss, script kiddies, script kiddies hackers, twitter, twitter hack, twitter security
There was a bit of a buzz on the 10th anniversary of 9/11 when the NBC News Twitter account was hacking and started posting updates regarding a repeated terrorist attack against ground zero. It only lasted a few minutes but as the account has 120,000 f…
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Hackers Get Hold Of Wildcard Google SSL Certificate – Could Hijack Gmail Accounts
Posted in August 30th, 2011
by admin in DigiNotar, Exploits/Vulnerabilities, gmail mitm, gmail security, gmail-hacking, google, google mitm, google ssl cert, google wildcard cert, hacking-gmail, how to hack gmail, Legal Issues, man-in-the-middle, mitm, privacy, rss
One of the big discussions points this week is about a wildcard cert for Google that has leaked out from a Dutch company called DigiNotar. The certificate is good for all Google domains – it’s a *.google.com cert. This is bad news and appar…
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Collar Bomber Gets Owned By Word Metadata & USB Drive
Posted in August 18th, 2011
by admin in collar bomb, collar bomber, computer-forensics, crime, extortion, Forensics, Legal Issues, microsoft-word, Paul "Doug" Peters, paul peters, recover usb drive data, rss, usb drive recovery, usb forensics, word metadata
There were other more technical and probably relevant stories to report on today, but for some reason I just found this story very odd and strangely fascinating. Now here a strange case, a man climbs into a young girls bedroom in the middle of the nigh…
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Groupon India Subsidiary Leaks 300,000 Plain Text User Passwords
Posted in June 29th, 2011
by admin in clear text passwords, data-leak, data-security, groupon, groupon india, groupon leak, groupon security, Legal Issues, password leak, plain text passwords, privacy, rss, SoSasta, sosasta leak, sosasta security
Oh look! Another data-leak, this was was pretty bad as it contained plain-text passwords (who on earth doesn’t hash their passwords in the DB in 2011?!). Anyway this time it was a Groupon subsidary – Sosata.com which managed to leak the e-m…
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Malaysia Government Sites Under Attack From Anonymous
Posted in June 16th, 2011
by admin in anonops, anonymous, Cybersecurity, impact, Legal Issues, malaysia, malaysia anonymous, malaysia government hacked, malaysia government security, malaysia security, malaysian government, malaysian government security, privacy, rss
The big news in Asia this week is that Anonymous has found a new target – the Malaysian government. Recently the Internet regulator in Malaysia (SKMM) issued a notice to all the ISPs in the South-East Asian country to block 10 domains associated …
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IMF (International Monetary Fund) Suffer Major Breach In Sophisticated Cyberattack
Posted in June 13th, 2011
by admin in bank hack, Exploits/Vulnerabilities, General Hacking, hacking banks, hacking imf, imf, imf breach, imf hack, imf hacked, imf security breach, international monentary fund, Legal Issues, rss, world bank
Oh dear, another big organization has fallen foul to the whole RSA SecurID hack – it seems that way anyway. In combination with a Spear Phishing attack (similar to the one carried out on high level US officials via Gmail recently) hackers have bu…
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RSA Finally Admits 40 Million SecurID Tokens Have Been Compromised
Posted in June 7th, 2011
by admin in Cryptography, Exploits/Vulnerabilities, Legal Issues, rsa, rsa hack, rsa hacked, rsa securid, rsa securid compromise, rsa securid hacked, rsa security, rss, SecurID, securid hacked, securid token, securid token compromised, securid token replacement
Well we did say assume SecurID was broken back in March when we wrote – RSA Silent About Compromise For 7 Days – Assume SecurID Is Broken. With the recent news Lockheed Martin Hacked – Rumoured To Be Linked to RSA SecurID Breach and another U…
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Lockheed Martin Hacked – Rumoured To Be Linked to RSA SecurID Breach
Posted in May 31st, 2011
by admin in Cryptography, Exploits/Vulnerabilities, homeland-security, Legal Issues, Lockheed Martin, lockheed martin compromise, lockheed martin hack, rsa, rsa securid, rsa securid breach, rsa securid hack, rss, SecurID, us military leak, us-military
You all probably remember the big kerfuffle that occurred after RSA got hacked, it was widely assumed that the SecurID system was compromised somehow and could not be relied on. We reported about it in the article – RSA Silent About Compromise Fo…
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Sony PlayStation Network (PSN) Reopens In Asia
Posted in May 27th, 2011
by admin in Exploits/Vulnerabilities, Legal Issues, rss, Sony, sony asia, sony hack, sony playstation network, sony psn, sony psn asia, sony security
Finally! My friends over in this hemisphere can finally stop whining and get back on PSN! We’ve been covering this whole Sony Hack quite extensively over the past few weeks and this should be the final part of the network coming back online. Asia…
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Sony Brings Back PSN & Gives Away Freebies After Hack
Posted in May 17th, 2011
by admin in Legal Issues, privacy, rss, Sony, sony freebies, sony hack, sony playstation network, sony playstation network hack, sony playstation network security, sony psn, sony psn hack, sony psn security, sony security
We’ve been following the Sony PlayStation Network hack quite closely since back in April when we reported Sony Rebuilding PlayStation Network (PSN) – Down 4 Days So Far. Shortly after that it got a bit ugly with Sony PlayStation Network Hack Re…
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Sony Loses 25 Million More Customer Account Details Through SOE (Sony Online Entertainment)
Posted in May 4th, 2011
by admin in Legal Issues, privacy, rss, Sony, sony hack, sony lawsuit, sony online entertainment, sony online entertainment hack, sony security, sony soe hack
I actually misread this news at first and thought it was an additional leak from the Sony PlayStation Network (PSN) Hack that has been flooding the news, but sadly for Sony this is an entirely different hack carried out at the same time. It turns out a…
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Sony PlayStation Network Hack Resulted In Stolen User Data & Lawsuit
Posted in April 28th, 2011
by admin in Exploits/Vulnerabilities, Legal Issues, playstation network, playstation network hack, privacy, ps3, ps3 security, psn, psn hack, qriocity, rss, Security, Sony, sony hack, sony hacked, sony playstation network, sony psn, sony security
So after our report on Monday – Sony Rebuilding PlayStation Network (PSN) – Down 4 Days So Far – news had been spilling out about this whole thing pretty much non-stop. It appears the network is still down and there was some serious data …
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Microsoft Implements Company Policy For Vulnerability Disclosure
Posted in April 20th, 2011
by admin in disclosure policy, Legal Issues, microsoft, microsoft disclosure policy, microsoft employee, microsoft employees, microsoft vulnerability disclosure, microsoft vulnerability disclosure policy, rss, vulnerability disclosure, vulnerability disclosure policy, Windows Hacking
Microsoft has implemented a new company policy regarding vulnerability disclosure in non-Microsoft products (third-party products). Unsurprisingly they are following the ‘responsible disclosure’ line rather than the ‘full disclosure&#…
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TJX Hacker Albert Gonzalez Claims Government Made Him Do It
Posted in April 11th, 2011
by admin in albert gonzalez, General Hacking, hacker community, hacking community, Legal Issues, rss, segvec, tjx, tjx hack, tjx hacker, underground, underground hacker community
The latest news from the tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy camp is that Albert Gonzalez the TJX hacker who was convicted in 2009 was authorized to hack by the US Government. Back in 2009 we posted about that too – TJX Hacker Albert “Segvec” Gonz…
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NASA Systems At Risk From Hacking Attacks
Posted in March 30th, 2011
by admin in Exploits/Vulnerabilities, hacking nasa networks, hacking-nasa, Legal Issues, nasa, nasa hack, nasa hacking attacks, nasa network audit, nasa network security, nasa networks, nasa security, nasa security audit, privacy, rss
It’s not surprising really, when I learned that the recently retired NASA space shuttle was still using 5.25″ floppy drives – I suspected that much of the NASA IT architecture was probably antiquated. Also the recent SCADA related sec…
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Dutch Court Rules Wi-Fi Hacking Legal In Holland
Posted in March 21st, 2011
by admin in dutch law, hacking law, hacking laws, hacking wifi, hacking wifi holland, holland law, holland wifi law, Legal Issues, legality of hacking, rss, wifi hacking legality, wifi-hacking, Wireless Hacking
Interesting case and a very interesting interpretation of the laws of Holland which lead to this decision which means the Dutch can hack in Wireless routers legally. We published a story about the ethics of jacking open Wi-Fi connections way back in 20…
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Tunisia Running Country Wide Facebook, Gmail & Yahoo! Password Capture
Posted in February 10th, 2011
by admin in Facebook, facebook security, facebook-privacy, Legal Issues, Network Hacking, password capture, privacy, rss, sofiene chourabi, takrizo, tunisia, tunisia facebook, tunisia facebook password, tunisia stealing facebook passwords
We have mentioned Facebook plenty of times, they have had their fair share of security issues and we have mentioned Tunisia once way back in regards to Internet Repression. It seems like the government of Tunisia have been basically phishing their user…
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Canadian Dating Site PlentyofFish.com Hacked
Posted in February 7th, 2011
by admin in brian krebs, chris russo, dating site security, dating sites, Exploits/Vulnerabilities, hacking-websites, information disclosure, Legal Issues, markus frind, plenty of fish, plenty of fish security, PlentyofFish, plentyoffish.com, pof, privacy, privacy disclosure, rss, sql-injection, web hack, Web Hacking, web-application-security, web-security
Something which caused some kind of stir last week was the hacking of the Canadian dating site Plenty of Fish (sometimes known as PoF) which rose to fame on the Webmaster forums for SEO due to a picture of Markus Frind holding an Adsense cheque for $13…
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China Facing Problems With Android Handsets & Pre-installed Trojans
Posted in January 17th, 2011
by admin in android china, android malware, android phone trojan, android phones, android trojan, android virus, china malware, hacking android, Legal Issues, Malware, Phishing, privacy, rss, scamming, spammers, trojan, trojans
It seems like the Chinese are always coming up with inventive ways to scam people, this time the people in their own country. Android is of course growing quickly globally and China is no exception with the availability of cheap hardware there the open…
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FBI Investigating Gawker Media User Database Password Ownage
Posted in December 15th, 2010
by admin in 4chan, anonymous, Exploits/Vulnerabilities, FBI, Gawker, gawker hack, Gawker Media, gawker media hack, gawker media passwords, gawker passwords, gnosis, hacker news, Legal Issues, privacy, rss, Web Hacking, Y-Combinator
After the non-stop action with WikiLeaks last week, the big news this week is the hack carried out on Gawker Media which exposed their users e-mail addresses and passwords. More than 200,000 password hashes (very lightly encrypted with DES) and e-mail …
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European Banks Seeing New Wave Of ATM Skimming
Posted in November 19th, 2010
by admin in atm fraud, atm security, atm skimming, bank fraud, bank security, banking-security, east, emv, emv atm card, emv card, european atm security team, fraud, Legal Issues, privacy, rss, scammers, scams, skimming, Spammers & Scammers
ATM hacking and skimming were often in the news a few years back, but since the banks ramped up the security on ATM machines – including anti-skimming devices – ATM fraud activities seemed to drop off. Remember the Pro ATM Hacker ‘Chao’…
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Facebook Apps Leaking Personal Data To Third Parties
Posted in October 19th, 2010
by admin in data-leak, Facebook, facebook app privacy, facebook app security, facebook apps, facebook data, facebook-privacy, Legal Issues, personal data leak, privacy, rss
Less than a week after our story about Facebook Introducing OTP (One-time Password) Functionality to make the site more secure, their dubious privacy standards have hit the news again. Facebook privacy has been in the news numerous times and it’s…
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Police In UK & US Charge & Arrest Multiple People Over Zeus Trojan E-banking Fraud
Posted in October 1st, 2010
by admin in arrests, bank fraud, banking malware, e-banking, e-banking fraud, e-banking security, financial fraud, financial malware, Legal Issues, Malware, money mules, mules, rss, Spammers & Scammers, zeus, zeus trojan, zeus trojan arrests, zeus trojan fraud
Zeus has been around for quite some time, we reported it about it initially back in 2009 when it was noted Zeus could evade anti-virus software. In more recent months it was noted that Zeus has become more focused and variations of Zeus were found to b…
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