Hacker hacked Toyota UK Blog and leaked personal info
Hacker hacked Toyota UK Blog and leaked personal info
DDoS-for-hire service is legal and even lets FBI peek in, says a guy with an attorney
A posting from Naked Security about DDoS-for-hire service is legal: Paying a site to DDoS other sites is perfectly legal, the proprietor behind one such outfit told security journalist Brian Krebs. Besides which, he says, his service, called RageBooter, even features a nifty backdoor that lets the FBI monitor customer activity. The conversation took place recently between Krebs […]
Black Hat 2013 Showcases Home Security, Bootkits, Cellular OPSEC Failures
A posting from Dark Reading on Black Hat: Major information security event Black Hat has announced three more featured talks -- just the start of an avalanche of new briefings being announced on the Black Hat USA website. We're highlighting three of them here --- focusing on diverse subjects spanning home security system hacking, bootkit threats across multiple OSes, and […]
Large Attacks Hide More Subtle Threats In DDoS Data
An interesting article from Dark Reading in there Security Monitoring section : The massive avalanche of data in March that crashed down on Spamhaus, the maintainer of a number of spam blacklists, made headlines as the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack witnessed to date. Along with the ongoing campaign against financial institutions by a group of attackers calling […]
Apple iPhone Decryption Backlog Stymies Police
A posting from InfromationWeek in there Security section: pple is overwhelmed by requests from law enforcement agencies to decrypt seized iPhones, and its waiting list is so long that it may take months before new requests get handled. That revelation, first reported by CNET, was gleaned from a search warrant affidavit for a seized iPhone last summer by a […]
Google security: You (still) are the weakest link
A posting from Cnet News in there Security and Privacy section: AN FRANCISCO--Two of Google's top Chrome and Google Apps security experts confessed that the problem of passwords will continue to plague the people who use them and computer security for the foreseeable future. On the second day of the company's I/O conference here on Thursday, Eran […]
FT hacked. Syrian Electronic Army hijacks Financial Times blogs and Twitter accounts
A posting from Naked Security: The Syrian Electronic Army has struck again - this time adding the scalp of the prestigious Financial Times to its collection of hijacked accounts belonging to well-known media organisations. Hackers from the Syrian Electronic Army appear to have stolen the usernames and passwords of FT staff with access to the newspaper's social media […]
CISPA cybersecurity bill backers hope second time's a charm
An interesting article from NBC News in there Technology section: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Six months after a U.S. cybersecurity bill died in the Senate, some Obama administration officials and lawmakers are optimistic they can get a new law passed amid heightened public awareness of hacking attacks and cyber espionage. With top intelligence officials warning that cyber attacks have replaced […]
Don’t Be a Victim of a Phishing Attack
Criminals and hackers have been extremely sophisticated in creating phony, but authentic looking e-mails that seemed to have originated from legitimate companies. If you receive an e-mail that you believe to be a phishing attempt, do not reply to it since by doing so will just validate the e-mail address is correct. Trust me, you do not want that to happen.