A young Argentinian hacker, known only by his sobriquet Ch Russo, claims to have successfully slipped past The Pirate Bayâ??s defenses, gaining access to the torrent siteâ??s administrative control panel. An SQL injection vulnerability discovered by Ch Russo and a couple of his chums exposed the siteâ??s user database, which is said to contain account [...]
Anti-virus vendor F-Secure has observed an increase in the number of digitally signed samples of malware. It said that increasing number of scareware are also including an authentic digital signature.
A digitally signed software means that it is confirmed to be a legitimate software and that its origin is verified. The software authenticating method, called authenticode, [...]
German security experts are cautioning Windows Live Messenger users of a new cyber threat. According to G Data SecurityLabs, a recent increase in phishing sites and spam that direct to the services and an apparently endless bogus friend requests has been observed.
The spam e-mails are hitting the inboxes of users all across the world carry [...]
The cyber crime circle of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in a crackdown against website hackers arrested five hackers active in various areas of the country including Islamabad and Rawalpindi.
According to the FIA sources, the operation was conducted on receiving complaints from the national and multi-national organizations regarding hacking of their websites. Taking notice of [...]
The NSA has a new program called â??Perfect Citizenâ? that lets it monitor the networks of utilities and other â??criticalâ? infrastructure to identify potential electronic attacks, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
Under the $100 million program, the nationâ??s top spying group will embed surveillance probes in privately owned networks to look for suspicious behavior, the [...]
Apple has banned dozens of applications from its iTunes digital store after bogus purchases from hundreds of compromised customer accounts drove the apps to the top of the popularity charts for paid electronic books.
Apple said it banned a Vietnamese developer using the name Thuat Nguyen for violations including â??fraudulent purchase patternsâ? and removed his apps [...]
As the dog days of summer arrive in Seattle, Microsoft is preparing to issue four security bulletins next Tuesday — three of them rated "critical," Microsoft’s highest ranking.
The good news is there are only four patches, and that two of them fix outstanding zero-day vulnerabilities for which users and administrators have been waiting.
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) [...]
Police in South Korea have arrested 33 hackers who have been charged with poker fraud.
Allegedly these hackers have defrauded poker players of 55,000,000 Won in their own currency which is worth $45,265.
The group is supposed to have used 11,000 botnet computers located all over South Korea to access 700 poker rooms. The group [...]
In these days of PhotoShop and its brethren, itâ??s becoming almost impossible to tell whether or not an image has been digitally manipulated. While some â??shopping is done simply for whimsical reasons (see picture above), the matter becomes a bit more serious when things such as military images are altered. Visible watermarks are sometimes overlaid [...]
Microsoft faces a rash of zero-day vulnerabilities in some of its most important software, according to recent disclosures of unpatched bugs, including flaws in Windows XP, Internet Explorer and its flagship Web server.
Along with the unveiling of a vulnerability by a group of disgruntled security researchers who have dubbed themselves the Microsoft-Spurned Researcher Collective (MSRC), [...]
Businesses have gigabytes upon gigabytes of sensitive and confidential data archived on servers, storage arrays, or backup media. Those companies rely on the expertise of information security professionals to protect that data and prevent unauthorized access. The question, though, is "who is protecting the sensitive and confidential data from the information security professionals?"
Cyber-Ark Software has [...]
As expected, Microsoft today is proceeding with job cuts in targeted areas of its global workforce, delivering layoff notices in selected groups as part of the strategic realignment that the company traditionally makes at the beginning of its fiscal year. We haven’t been able to get a precise count, but the numbers we’re now hearing [...]
With the release of Firefox 4 Beta 1, Mozilla is preparing to once again take on Google’s Chrome, Opera Software’s Opera and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. The company finds itself in a good position. As the world’s second-most popular browser, Firefox is poised to continue its growth and eventually supplant Internet Explorer as the top program [...]
The transition to 64-bit computing has accelerated with the release of Windows 7. Figures published by Microsoft today claim that nearly half of Windows 7 installationsâ??46 percentâ??are using 64-bit versions of the operating system. This represents a huge upswing in 64-bit adoption; Windows Vista, in comparison, had only 11 percent of its users running the [...]
A security researcher said on Thursday he was the first to crack the code embedded in the seal of the U.S. Cyber Command (Cybercom), the group responsible for protecting the country’s military networks from attack.
Sean-Paul Correll, a threat researcher with antivirus vendor Panda Security, said that the characters visible in a gold ring on Cybercom’s [...]
A Canadian law firm has filed a class-action lawsuit against Facebook, alleging the social networking company mishandled users’ private information and breached their privacy.
Merchant Law Group LLP filed the lawsuit on July 2 in Queen’s Bench court in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The law firm, which has class-action lawsuits as a large part of its business, filed [...]
A new telco, Indigo Telecom, has entered the market to fill what it perceives to be a huge gap in delivering portable satellite phone and data communications services to rural Australians beyond the reach of terrestrial cellular networks.
The company is reselling services on the Thuraya geostationary L-band satellite, initially via three devices: an A5 sized [...]
IBM Lender Business Process Services Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of IBM, will hire 600 employees and invest $3.7 million to open a service center in Research Triangle Park, Gov. Beverly Perdue announced Thursday.
The state Economic Investment Committee on Thursday approved a Job Development Investment Grant that could be worth as much as $7.79 million [...]
Australia’s widely criticized proposal to mandate a filter blocking child pornography and other objectionable Internet content has been delayed at least a year so the government can review what content should be restricted.
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said Friday a 12-month review would begin this year into the filter, which would force all Australian ISPs to [...]
It has just been confirmed that one iPhone 4 user has taken his handset into an AT&T store, after his phone caught fire after connecting the device to a computer using Appleâ??s USB cable.
According to this report from BGR, the incident burned the userâ??s hands in the process, with the user explaining the situation to [...]