Hacked Info

The Department of Justice in the US is conducting trial for the biggest data security breach case in the country till date. Two Russians and a US national have swindled data information of 130 million plastic money users, till they were cornered by investigators. The US hacker is a history-sheeter with similar cases of data [...]

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 [...]

TinyURL, Bit.ly, Cli.ng… there are numerous URL shortening services out there, which gives us cute shiny short URL which we can post to tweets, blogs and websites. But this shiny short URL often takes us to malicious websites. The URL masking makes the users difficult to know if they’re clicking on a trustworthy link, or [...]

Starting this July 1, computers sold in China must include government- developed and provided spyware that blocks pornography and political dissent from Chinese netizens. This software would allow the government to regularly update computers with an ever-changing list of banned Web sites. Industry veterans say they are worried the software may simply be a Trojan [...]

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. [...]

Obama will appoint Cyber Czar to coordinate efforts to secure government networks and U.S. critical infrastructures. The czar will be responsible for orchestrating and integrating all cyber security policies for the government, working with the Office of Management and Budget to ensure that agencies have money allocated for cyber security priorities, and coordinating the government’s response to a major cyber incident or attack.