Table Of Contents SEANux POWER UP… YOUR PERFORMANCE, says the slogan of Syrian Electronic Armys newly released Linux operating system. The Syrian Electronic Atmy developed SEAnux is open source and available publically to all who are interested. What is a Linux Distribution? Who is Syrian Electronic Army? They mainly target anti Assad websites and western interests. SEA has been in countoversy for the ways of hacking used by them. Many security researchers believe that they use spear phisihing to achieve their hack attacks....

By taking advantage of this, an attacker can get their malware onto the system. This can be via hard drives, or third party software for example. the hard part is, getting the data out from the system as the system is offline. Ben Gurion researchers demonstrated sending this data using radio signals. How does it work ? Which means the attacker does not necessarily have to be in the same room as the isolated machine....

you’ve got the option to read about that vulnerability here. The Advisory states : This Public Service Announcement is a follow up to SA-CORE-2014-005 Drupal core SQL injection. The recommendation is to restore from backup or rebuild from scratch. Resource :Drupal Advisory Read More source: www.techworm.net

Individuals who fail or refuse to put the recording devices away may be asked to leave, they added. Earlier this year in January, FBI had dragged a man out of theater for wearing a Google Glass. The FBI had been called in after the theater staff suspected that he was engaged in camcorder piracy. However FBI conceded theyd made a big mistake later and released the man. source: www.techworm.net

Google Street View had originally snapped Grillo seating in the porch of her house. The photo was taken by one of Googles camera equipped cars and was used in Street View feature. However Google had blurred out her face, the rest of the image was enough identify her. The judge partly agreed to what the Google said but held that Google was liable for invading her privacy. you’re able to read the judgement below (French)...

The three judges and four of six jurors returned guilty verdicts. Two jurors voted to acquit after concluding that the remote access defense could not be ruled out. The prosecution said that this were cyber handles for Svartholm and is co-accomplice. They,in fact. insisted that Svartholms computer had been hacked to mount the attack on the US based CSC servers. The prison sentence will be announced tomorrow at 1 pm Danish time by Court of Frederiksberg....

Once the visitors visit this third party page, the Rig Exploit Kit malware is downloaded on their computers. Modus Operandi The hackers injected the website with a malicious iFrame. This automatically redirected the visitors of PopSci website to a third party domain hosting the RIG Exploit Kit. The same RIG Exploit Kit was used in the US Metro hack as well. In fact this is the standard operating procedure of RIG Exploit Kit....

In January 2011, the US Department of Justice issued 40 subpoenas in search of information. They were made to serve as an example to us all, at great personal cost. Yesterday,defendants appeared in federal court on Wednesday, where the felony charges were dropped. Anonymous are obviously elated at the resolution of long standing grievance they had with the system. They have always believed that what PayPal did was wrong and WikiLeaks funding shouldnt have been stopped....

The company, however said, that its CurrentC mobile App has not been affected by this breach. Based on investigations conducted by MCX security personnel, only these e-mail addresses were involved and no other information. MCX is continuing to investigate this situation and will provide updates as necessary. (Image:Twitter) NFC is the technology that makes Apple Pay and other NFC-based payment solutions, including Google Wallet, work. But then those retailers disabled NFC at their registers, ending their unofficial support for Apple Pay....

Its stealthily passing messages back and forth without even having to press send. You never see the bullet fired. Modus Operandi Shape Security said that this was how this new kind of malware work. The cyber criminal / hacker first set up an anonymous Gmail account. He then proceeded to infect the victims computer with the malware. Readers may not that Microsoft Windows lets Internet Explorer run by itself. This is allowed by the Windows programs so that they can seamlessly query web pages for information....

Google hopes that this will make users more security conscious and lock their smartphones and tablets much more easily. End to end encryption The Android 5.0 lollipop will come with data encryption by default. But this feature will have to be enabled in older smartphones upgrading to Android 5.0 lollipop. Factory Reset Protection Though this is not a security feature, it is a first for Android. Android 5.0 lollipop will be the first version of the OS to include the Factory Reset Protection....

The attackers used macros in the office suite to inject the Dridex banking trojan on targeted computers. Another change has been the targets. Like its precursors, Dridex is a sophisticated Banking Trojan, similar to the infamous Zeus malware. Dridex uses an XML-based configuration file to specify which websites it should target and other options for the malware. .(swf)($|? */login/^https? ://accounts.google.com/ServiceLoginAuth^https? ://login.yahoo.com/^https? ://login.live.com/^https?://(\w+. )?aol.com^https?://(\w+. )?facebook.com/^https?://(\w+. )?google^https?://(\w+. )?yahoo^https?://(\w+. )?youtube.com^https?://(\w+. )?live.com^https?://(\w+. )?twitter.com^https?://(\w+. )?vk.com^https....

The hackers managed to breach only those systems which had unclassified data as per sources. We took immediate measures to evaluate and mitigate the activity. Unfortunately, some of that resulted in the disruption of regular services to users. But people were on it and are dealing with it. said one another White house official. The breach which was discovered 2-3 weeks back caused temporary disruptions in some of the computer connection services....