OpFrance vs OpCharlieHebdo; Is Anonymous fighting against the ISIS Hackers?

Lincident est toujours en cours… Il touche le coeur de reseau. Les equipes sont en cours dinvestigation. But a major reason which is hindering #OpCharlieHebdo is Anonymous itself. Anonymous is a highly decentralized body with very less control over each other. Which means that all Anonymous community members may not be the same page on every issue. Does not looks that bad, right, let me make it more clear. Anonymous as a collective, is fighting also against each other....

January 16, 2015 · 1 min · 113 words · Lisa Rogers

Teenager linked to Xbox Live and PlayStation DDoS arrested in Liverpool, Member of Lizard Squad?

Table Of Contents Member of Lizard Squad Arrested? He was also detained for alleged un-authorised access with intent to commit further offences and threats to kill. Member of Lizard Squad? So it is possible that this individual may be a member of the Lizard Squad. Lizard Squads official Twitter account is silent on the issue. Source :SEROCU Statement. source: www.techworm.net

January 16, 2015 · 1 min · 60 words · Veronica Riddle

UPI and New York Post Twitter Hacked, Fake News Posted Claiming World War III has begun

Jenny Tartikoff, a spokeswoman for the NYPost said the hacks are being looked into. Other high-profile attacks, earlier this week that compromised theU.S. The twitter hacking trend was even as early as 2013 whenBurger Kings Twitter feedthat put up the McDonalds logo. And other regulating bodies. source: www.techworm.net

January 16, 2015 · 1 min · 48 words · Meredith Davis

A Verizon Zombie Cookie That You may have is taking a Turn for the worst

The company called Turn utilizes this number to respawn tracking cookies even after they are deleted by Verizon users. Irregardless if they attempt to opt out or not. OnlyAT&T discontinued the practicein November. Turns actions were originally identified by Stanford researcherJonathan Mayer. Turn, is also known to have a huge back-end processor of ads on websites. The highest bidders ad instantly appears on the users screen as the web page loads....

January 15, 2015 · 1 min · 145 words · Tanya Carlson

Comcast in a class action Lawsuit over conducting an unauthorized credit checks

The event happened, when Mr. Santangelo set up new Internet service with Comcast late last year. Santangelo is not alone with these transgressions. The federal Fair Credit Reporting Act expressly prohibits companies from obtaining consumer reports without authorization. The suit also claims Comcast benefits from the practice by skimming customer deposits. Since the lawsuit was filed as a class action, other similarly situated Comcast customers could potentially join it. source: www....

January 15, 2015 · 1 min · 71 words · Michael Pierce

Google AdSense Used for Malvertising Campaign Using Fakes Of Reputable Website

These cyber criminals had modified the legitimate ads to redirect visitors to websites which are selling shady health products. He added that Google had stopped the two AdWords campaigns by weekend. In some cases another domain used was consumernews247.com . (Image Credits: Sucuri) Researchers noted that in all cases the symptoms were the same. Some users were randomly redirected when they clicked on links or loaded new pages. (Image Credits: Sucuri)...

January 15, 2015 · 1 min · 73 words · Robert Coleman

KL-Remote ‘virtual mugging’ bank fraud toolkit bypasses 2-Factor Authentication and Device Identification

The added advantage for the criminals is that it effectively circumvents both two-factor authentication and machine identification protections. IBM Security Trusteer who called it virtual mugging tool, analysed it and has released areportdetailing it. KL-Remote is distributed by embedding it with other malware and comes preloaded with a list of targeted banking URLs. By pushing the Start phishing button, the criminal causes a message to appear on the victims screen....

January 15, 2015 · 1 min · 114 words · Timothy Booth

Microsoft ends free support for ageing yet popular Windows 7 operating system

Microsoft has officially ended the free help and support for Windows 7. It will also not release any new features for Windows 7. It sold over 100 million copies in six months after release and still remains hugely popular. Microsoft introduced its successor, Windows 8 and subsequent updates with a radical change in the user interface. The extended support which is chargeable ends on 14th Jan, 2020. However Microsoft will continue issuing security fixes and patches for vulnerabilities and flaws discovered by security researchers....

January 15, 2015 · 1 min · 103 words · Zachary Walker

Open Source Gitrob tool scans GitHub Repository for sensitive information

repositories) for unintentionally leaked sensitive information. Henrikson did just that. Sometimes employees might publish things that should not be publicly available. This can happen by accident or because the employee does not know the sensitivity of the information. How it works Gitrob first starts collecting all public repositories of the organization itself. All of the members, repositories and files will be saved to a PostgreSQL database. Henriksen tested the tool against a number of GitHub organizations belonging big and small firms and found surprising results....

January 15, 2015 · 1 min · 101 words · Erin Jones

Cloned BBC Website Questioning the Authenticity of Charlie Hebdo Footage

The website which was hosted on bbc-news[.]co[. Merabet spotted suspected attackers Said and Cherif Kouachi fleeing the scene and pursued them. He was taken down by gunfire and then shot point blank on the street. Officer Franck Brinsolaro had already been killed inside the magazines office. It is not known whether 108morris108 is speaking about the same footage. But the real glory for the website came from the conspiracy theory story....

January 14, 2015 · 1 min · 99 words · Veronica Curry

David Cameron’s plan to ban end-to-end encryption

This seems to be an ongoing thing with every politician. He choose to abandon his business rather than fight and become another causality in the prison industrial complex. Many business have taken note and have purposefully engineered themselves to have absolutely no control over surrendering any data. They are just unable to do so even if they are willing (or coarsed with legal threats). This will always be a game of cat and mouse....

January 14, 2015 · 1 min · 89 words · Steven Hall

Instagram patches flaw leaking private images

The flaw allowed all photos from formerly public accounts later marked private to remained open and viewable to public. Flaw patched The flaw was first reported by the Quartz and has now been formally patched. source: www.techworm.net

January 14, 2015 · 1 min · 37 words · Joel Francis

KeySweeper a $10 spy tool disguised as Wall Charger which can read data from any wireless Microsoft Keyboard

He has named the gadget as KeySweeper and has also released a do it yourself tutorial onGitHub. Bugs Exploited The machine, masquerades as a working USB wall charger. It can be used to log every input a user keys in, onto his machine. The apparent flaw in the Microsofts wireless keyboard transmitters has been exploited by the KeySweepers creator Samy Kamkar. The KeySweeper uses GSM protocol to report back to the handlers thus making it very difficult to locate....

January 14, 2015 · 2 min · 269 words · Amy Smith