CIBC customer’s hacked card used in United States

He was defrauded of $500. Luckily for him, CIBC issued him a new credit card . The surprising part, his credit card was with him, in his wallet, the entire time. No more details were given about the fraud. The price range fro such stolen cards on the Dark Web ranges from $4 to $50. Cpt_Qc (@Ducalian26)December 24, 2014 Read More source: www.techworm.net

December 25, 2014 · 1 min · 63 words · Mrs. Alison Ward MD

Facebook sued for illegal message scanning

The lawsuit was filed by Facebook user Matthew Campbell and seeks class-action status. The case is Campbell v. Facebook Inc, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, No. source: www.techworm.net

December 25, 2014 · 1 min · 30 words · Mark Parker

Torrent lovers and TPB fans get a Christmas present fromThe Pirate Bay crew – “The Interview” download links

Santa goes Pirate The Pirate Bay had shown signs of life recently after being offline for some time. TPB today, released a Download link to a full HD Print of The Interview movie. The Interview download Hash codes can uniquely identify a torrent on the internet. Even if the website has been blocked, these hash codes cannot be blocked. The hash code gained popularity when TPB was blocked the first time by the British government....

December 25, 2014 · 2 min · 231 words · Brandy Spence

Airtel’s Net Neutrality Violation in India; differential pricing for different types of Mobile Internet usage

Thenew 3G tariff plans announcedby the company reek of net neutrality violations. The above changes go against the premise of net neutrality across all internet platforms. President Obama recently spoke in favour of net neutrality and how he wishes free and open internet for everyone. source: www.techworm.net

December 24, 2014 · 1 min · 47 words · Alexandra Russell

Apple Delivers First-Ever Automated Mac Security Update

The update is seamless, Evans said. It doesnt even require a restart. Such automatic updates are overwhelmingly useful to the users, who normally take a while to update their machines. Similar views were voiced by Tripwire senior security analyst Ken Westin toInfosecurity Magazine. source: www.techworm.net

December 24, 2014 · 1 min · 45 words · Morgan Anderson

Chinese hackers target Japanese banks; cybercriminals steal $16 million in six months

This surpases the full-year record of 1.41 billion yen in 2013, according to Japans National Police Agency. Japanese peoples wealth is draining into China. They think its just a part-time job. Cyber scams The easiest method of luring Japanese account holders to be through phishing attacks and malwares. There the products are sold, with the proceeds going to the ringleaders. Japans banks can do little more than alert the customers and compensate the victims....

December 24, 2014 · 1 min · 127 words · Patricia Gordon

Flaw in MacBook EFI allows attackers to boot ROM with malware using Thunderbolt Ports

Evil Maid Attack The attack is an evil maid, replacing the boot code on the computer. His research involves infect Apple EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) firmware using the externally accessible Thunderbolt ports. Since the boot ROM is independent of the operating system, reinstallation of OS X will not remove it. Nor does it depend on anything stored on the disk, so replacing the harddrive has no effect. A hardware in-system-programming unit is the only way to restore the stock firmware....

December 24, 2014 · 1 min · 139 words · Donna Spencer

JPMorgan hacked because the bank failed to enable 2-Factor Authentication

It is one of the oldest trick in the book and the same occurred in this case. Case Files JP Morgan had in September 2014 admitted to the data breach. source: www.techworm.net

December 24, 2014 · 1 min · 32 words · Debbie Dalton

Rackspace recovers after DDoS attack shuts down its DNS servers for 11 hours

Thus during this 11 hour period, even genuine Rackspace visitors were inadvertently blocked. Rackspace provides Cloud Servers and Dedicated Servers to individuals and enterprises. In addition, Rackspace helps design, build, and operate workloads across both environments to enterprise customers. to stabilize the issue, our teams placed the impacted DNS infrastructure behind mitigation services. Our teams are actively working to mitigate the attack and provide service stability. source: www.techworm.net

December 24, 2014 · 1 min · 68 words · Zachary Sullivan

Sony threatens to sue Twitter over tweets giving out leaked email links from Sony Pictures hack

Sony has taken a strong objection to the use of Twitter for posting links for such emails. Earlier Sony had written to media houses to stop publishing information of the leaked materials from the hack attack. US websiteMotherboardhas posted a letter sent from Boies to Twitter on its webste. which means that Sony can sue Twitter for such acts. We review all reported content against our rules, which prohibit posting another persons private information....

December 24, 2014 · 1 min · 76 words · Henry Smith

Sony to Release ‘The Interview’ on Google Play, YouTube Movies, Xbox Video and seetheInverview.com

The film will be available online beginning at 10 a.m. PST Wednesday. Many citizens including President Obama had panned Sony for bowing down to the hackers pressure. source: www.techworm.net

December 24, 2014 · 1 min · 29 words · Christie Peterson

Chinese hackers shuts down Afghanistan government websites by targeting CDN

]af/scripts/gop-script.js in the CDN The domain cdn.afghanistan[. Resource :ThreatConnect Read More source: www.techworm.net

December 23, 2014 · 1 min · 13 words · Nathaniel Perez

Misconfigured code caused Nov.18 Azure outage – Microsoft

In a statement, Microsoft claimed that the outage was caused due to its developers implementing bad code. Overruling Protocol Microsoft developers it seems, were working to iron out a bug in their software. The solution to the bug solving, apparently caused the massive outage of Azure cloud services. Microsoft said that it had tested the update before rolling it out. The Azure data center in Dallas suffered a complete outage for a short while....

December 23, 2014 · 1 min · 148 words · Michaela Lambert