Botnets Come Out Of Hiding For Boston Bombing Spam
An Posting from Dark Reading about Botnets Come Out Of Hiding For Boston Bombing Spam : Spammers are harnessing two venerable botnets -- Kelihos and Cutwail -- to send out reams of deceptive emails disguised as news and video clips from the Boston Bombing, but that carry malicious payloads. According to a blog by researchers at Trusteer, a […]
32 Apps in Google Play found infected with BADNEWS Android Malware
A New Malware found Lookout in Android named BadNews, its name also looks like the Malware and in 32 apps across four accounts in Google Play it is, according to the Google Play statics it has been downloaded between 2,000,000- 9,000,000 time
Google Down - Gmail, Google Drive and Admin Panel not Working
We saw a Tweet on Twitter that Google admin is down and after that when we searched for the Issue about that we started login to the Admin Panel of Google but we were unable to login to the admin.google.com really that was shocking because just 2 days ago Google Kenya domain was hacked by Bangladeshi Hackers.
Botnet Targeting WordPress "Admin" Username Accounts on the Internet
If you are a blogger and you are running WordPress as your blogging platform, please read this article. Attackers are logging in to WordPress blogs by using the default username “admin” and then using a brute-force dictionary-based attack to locate the password for the account.
Microsoft Discovers Trojan That Erases Evidence Of Its Existence
An posting from dark reading: Researchers at Microsoft have spotted a Trojan downloader that does something very savvy yet rare: it deletes its own components so researchers and forensics investigators can't analyze or identify it. The so-called Win32/Nemim.gen!A Trojan is also unusual in that unlike most Trojan downloaders that are put in place to deliver the real […]
Spamhaus DDoS Attacks: What Business Should Learn
An posting from Information week in there security section: The distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) campaign aimed at anti-spam group Spamhaus over the past week, allegedly orchestrated by Stophaus.com, set the equivalent of a new land-speed record by reaching attack volumes that peaked at a whopping 300 Gbps. Regardless of the mechanics of that attack -- or whether it triggered widespread Internet access […]
Microsoft Windows 8 Security Software Lacks Teeth
An inserting posting from Information Week in there security section: Not all Windows 8 endpoint security tools are created equal. That's one takeaway from a recent study of Windows 8 antivirus products conducted by the independent German lab behind AV-Test, which reviews the effectiveness of endpoint security products. The firm found that out of nine corporate endpoint security products tested earlier […]
Vudu resets user passwords after hard drives lost in office burglary
An posting from Cnet news: Video service Vudu began warning users today that it has instituted a systemwide password reset following an office break-in last month. A burglary March 24 resulted in the loss of hard drives that contained users' sensitive personal information, including names, e-mail addresses, postal addresses, phone numbers, account activity, dates of birth, and […]
LulzSec hackers plead guilty, admit attacks on CIA, SOCA, Sony and others
Southwark Crown Court in London has heard that three members of the LulzSec hacking gang have chosen to plead guilty to charges that they launched distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against a series of organisations including the CIA and the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency.
Think cyber crime laws are bad now? Wait till you see the latest proposals
Congress is revising the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act -- in the worst way possible. It's time to fix the CFAA, the right way