Hacked Info

If you are a regular on Twitter and follow other people’s tweets, look out for this one. There is a bug in the application programming interface (API) of Twitter which lets corrupt or malicious JavaScript code to tiptoe into your tweets. This means that your login account is not completely secure. Your account can be [...]

ScanSafe has recently revealed that over 56,000 websites are under malware attacks, and the number is rising by the day. Password robbers and backdoor Trojans are said to compose what is called the “malware cocktail”. This heady cocktail of viruses and malware is being sent across to millions of Windows users globally from the hacked [...]

Symantec cop released a sample of the dirtiest websites: 17ebook.com, aladel.net, bpwhamburgorchardpark.org, clicnews.com, dfwdiesel.net, divineenterprises.net, fantasticfilms.ru, gardensrestaurantandcatering.com, ginedis.com, gncr.org, hdvideoforums.org, hihanin.com, kingfamilyphotoalbum.com, likaraoke.com, mactep.org, magic4you.nu, marbling.pe.kr, nacjalneg.info, pronline.ru, purplehoodie.com, qsng.cn seksburada.net, sportsmansclub.net, stock888.cn, tathli.com, teamclouds.com, texaswhitetailfever.com, wadefamilytree.org, xnescat.info, and yt118.com . The infected sites had on average 18,000 threats and 40 per cent of the [...]

The big brothers of the technology business – McAfee, Symantec,  Microsoft, AVG Technologies, Trend Micro and their likes – have joined forces to fight the onslaught of hacking and malware that creeps into worldwide systems. The Industry Connections Security Group (ICSG) has been formed as a wing of the IEEE. Malware is a program that [...]

A number of U.S. government sites were shut down by hackers on July 4 holiday weekend. The Ministry of Finance, Secret Service, the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Transportation sites have been closed as long as two days after unknown parties launched a Denial of Service (DoS) attack. Advertising Amy Kudwa, spokesperson for [...]

Finjan, Cybercrime Intelligence report, tells the story of Golden Cash botnet that sells access to botnets comprised of thousands of compromised PCs to cyber criminals. Cyber criminals can pay $5 to $100 to install malware on 1,000 PCs for things like stealing data and sending spam. Prices are higher for compromised PCs in western countries. [...]

Green Dam Youth Escort is the censor ware developed and distributed by Chinese government to filter ‘harmful’ content. Here are some details about the working of the software. ‘Green Dam-Youth Escort’ will filter All text editors on the market (EditPlus, UltraEdit, EmEditor), Office software suites (WPS, MS Office), E-mail clients, Instant messaging clients Browsers Green [...]

If it’s on the web; its unsecure. Strong web mail CEO learned this lesson the hard way after hackers broke into his email account. StrongWebmail challenged hackers to break into the company’s Web mail system and promised to pay out a US$10,000 prize.  Hackers used XSS (cross-site scripting) attack techniques to break the account and [...]

The Malware that captures account numbers and PINs from the ATM transaction logs and then delivers it to the thief on a receipt printed from the machine in an encrypted format or to a storage device inserted in the card reader has been found from windows XP based automatic teller machines in Russia and Ukraine. [...]

Christopher Poole,(nick moot) founder of the forum 4chan won the title of the world’s most influential person through a poll ran by Times magazine. We won the title defeating Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Vladimir Putin, Pope Benedict XVI and many others. Moot received 16,794,368 votes and an average influence rating of 90 (out of a [...]