Anonymous shut down City of Cleveland website over death of 12 year Temir Rice due to police shooting

In a statement, the Anonymous stated that, This rookie officer apparently was not trained. The police department he works for is to blame for this lack of appropriate training. Officers are equipped with many non-lethal options such as Taser guns. Why did he not use a Taser on this child? Shooting him in cold blood was not necessary with these non-lethal options available. The suspect did not comply with the officers orders and reached to his waistband for the gun....

November 24, 2014 · 1 min · 123 words · Tracy Murphy

Craigslist website hacked, Visitors Redirected to DigitalGangster.com

Twitter had suspended the account @LulzClerk last week. Later the NS records were remodified to NS75.WORLDNIC.COM and NS76.WORLDNIC.COM. this has now been fixed to usual NS of Craigslist.org. However while researching for this report, Techworm team was still redirected to DigitalGangster while trying to access Craigslist. The reason for this may be that the name server propagation can take upto 48 hours globally. Till the propagation is complete, some users may still be redirected to the DigitalGangster....

November 24, 2014 · 1 min · 80 words · David Williams

Hacker brings down Toronto Police Service Website through DDoS attack

Twitter user @AerithTOR claimed responsibility for the attack on the social networking site. The police said it was a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. However, both these websites were running perfectly fine so far. The Ottawa Police Service and Supreme Court of Canada websites went down. @AerithTOR claimed this was his former account and said it had been suspended. Toronto police were unavailable for further comment. source: www.techworm.net

November 24, 2014 · 1 min · 69 words · Linda Burns

Hacking RFID Payment Cards Now Possible with an Android App

With Apple also embracing it, the technology is set ot make a revolutionary boom. And as with every popular technology, the hacks and attacks have now begun to surface against RFID cards. Researchers atTrendMicro Labshave discovered that hacking RFID based payment cards is possible through a Android App. Manufacturer and memory content of a MIFARE Classic card Android App as the medium Trend researchers have discovered a high-risk Android app detected asANDROIDOS_STIP....

November 24, 2014 · 2 min · 333 words · Renee Gordon

PCs running Avast anti-virus left bricked after new Windows update

This Windows updates calls new memory related functions which are not fully compatible with Avast. Method 1:I would suggest you to trigger the Windows update troubleshooter to troubleshoot the issue. On the File menu, click Save As.c. Choose the location as Desktop.d. In the Save as bang out box, click All Files.e. In the File name box, pop in Rename.bat without quotes.f. On the File menu, click Exit to exit Notepad....

November 24, 2014 · 1 min · 98 words · Rachael Hartman

Sony Pictures Hacked, Every Computer in the Office showing weird image with a message saying Hacked By #GOP

The Redditor of the thread has been deleted. The thread says that #GOP stands for Guardians for Peace. We continue till our request be met. Weve obtained all your Internal data, Including your secrets and top secrets. If you dont obey us, well release data shown below to the world. Determine what will you do till November the 24th, 11:00 PM (GMT). source: www.techworm.net

November 24, 2014 · 1 min · 64 words · Michael Poole

‘Santa’ Google’s new enterprise malware watchdog for Mac OS

And if they cannot find a product for their needs, they build it. Dubbed Santa, it is a binary watchdog for MacOS. Google released this product on toGitHubso that other could contribute to its development. Santa is a very early version of a watchdog. Features The product has 2 modes, Santas Monitor mode and Lockdown. In Santas Monitor mode, everything is allowed to run except for the blacklisted binaries. And in Lockdown mode, only whitelisted binaries are allowed to run i....

November 24, 2014 · 1 min · 100 words · Micheal Jimenez

CoinVault baits users by decrypting one file only to encrypt all others

The ransom increases the longer the victim does not pay. Bait to attract money CoinVault is similar to other ransomwares that we have seen before. It demands payment in the online cryptocurrency Bitcoin and gives instructions on how victims can send the money. This is a software which can be removed from your machine just like any other. But once you remove it you are left with no way to recover your lost files....

November 23, 2014 · 1 min · 137 words · Elizabeth Harvey

Ecuadorean President Correa’s computers hacked, blamed on US spy agencies

Table Of Contents Ecuadorean President Correas computers hacked, blamed on US spy agencies. Hackers targeted and hacked Ecuador President Rafael Correas computers and internet systems on 20th November. Meanwhile President Correa has alleged that American spy agencies are behind the attacks. United States has so far not commented on the President Correas allegations. source: www.techworm.net

November 23, 2014 · 1 min · 55 words · Amanda Benson

Europe wide crackdown on PC hijackers, five arrested in United Kingdom

Looks like law enforcement thought differently. Arrests across Europe The article we published stalked about webcams being easily accessible. Reports yesterday indicate that arrests have been made in connection with similar occurrences throughout the UK and Europe. These arrests are part of a major global crackdown against the use of RATs. Ratting Ratting reports suggest has become very common in recent times. Once the file has executed, the trojan gets downloaded and installed onto the users machine....

November 23, 2014 · 1 min · 113 words · Megan Nolan

‘Mastering the Internet’ Program : how telecom firms worked with GCHQ

Cable and Wireless was called Gerontic. GCHQ even had a full time employee working within the company on this project. And a 2011 document reveals that Cable and Wireless went further. Reliances transatlantic cable lands in Sennen Cove six miles to the north. And the two cables come together at nearby Skewjack Farm. source: www.techworm.net

November 23, 2014 · 1 min · 55 words · Erin Powell

Anonymous launch Operation Soaring Eagle against Ottawa Police

Table Of Contents What is #OpSoaringEagle? Many are tweeting with this question. The hacked site was online for an hour, from about 6:30 p.m. ET to about 7:30 p.m. It showed a dancing banana and named Const. Joel Demore of Ottawa police west district investigations. Joel Demore: You laugh at us, you are scared of us, does this help your laughing? the hacked website read. We can destroy everything, this is a flex of our power....

November 22, 2014 · 2 min · 301 words · Kristi Stewart

Hospital asked to pay $100,000 as penalty for security breach in 2012

The breach happened when an unauthorized person stole an unencrypted laptop from a doctors office. The computers used by their doctors held crucial patient information. The breach laid bare information pertaining to the patients medical history as well as Social Security numbers. Total patients affected amounted to nearly 4,000. The main issue in the lawsuit was that the hospital saved all such information without even encrypting it. To read such data, a person needs to know the encryption algorithm- using which he can decode it....

November 22, 2014 · 1 min · 102 words · Henry Mitchell