This year has been the year of the hackers and leakers. So it was about time Hollywood too jumped the bandwagon. Were now getting a full fledged prime time TV show revolving around hackers. Hackers are becoming the new vampires ? Why the comparison to vampires you ask ? Theres no connection between the two you say ? The entire vampire season really took off when Twilight series became a box office hit....
Apple has fixed a large number of security vulnerabilities in OS X and iTunes which are detailed below. This feature which runs by default can severely compromise their privacy, they say. Search results found on your Mac will not be sent. Searches for common words and phrases will be forwarded from Apple to Microsofts Bing search engine. These searches are not stored by Microsoft. It also includes fixes for dozens of remote code execution vulnerabilities....
The Zwipe MasterCard will come with a built-in fingerprint scanner that stores the users thumbprint. Once the embedded chip unlocks youll be able to tap the card to make purchases. Both MasterCard and Zwipe claim that this will be the first card to combine contactless payment with biometric authentication. It is not known whether the Zwipe MasterCard will be launched in the U.S. anytime soon. Video demonstrating the Zwipe MasterCard https://www....
It so happens that a new style of stealing Dropbox credentials has emerged. This scam which was discovered bySymantec. The email is said to contain a large file which can be view only over Dropbox. This makes the victim believe they are on real Dropbox page and handover their credentials to cybercriminals. The image which is given below is of the said page and can fool even die hard prudent user....
Hacker sentenced for 18 months in prison for emailing Bomb Threat to shopping mall using the hacked WI-FI connection of his neighbor 24 Year old David Barnhouse of Horsham Pennsylvania was sentenced to 18 months in prison for hacking into his neighbors wireless router and using it to post a bomb threat on the website of the Willow Grove Park Mall. The United States Attorneys official releasestatedthat Barnhouse hacked into the Verizon FiOS router of his neighbor and using it he emailed a bomb threat to the Willow Grove Park Mall....
Table Of Contents Anonabox, the $50 portable anonymising connection router or master scam? But apparently such devices were already available from Chinese manufacturers and that too, even cheaper. As expected, Kickstarter had freezed the Anonabox funding for scamming the investors and backers with false claims. At one point on on Wednesday, the calls for the project to be cancelled got louder and shriller. Some backers and original pledgers also asked Kickstarter to cancel their pledges....
They did the same thing last month and on Tuesday repeated it. It seems that one of the update was causing the system reboots in loops after installation. However the update seemed to be malworking causing the users to reboot their systems in a loop. Microsoft recommends that customers experiencing issues uninstall this update. Microsoft is investigating behavior associated with this update, and will update the advisory when more information becomes available....
Serbian hackers broke down the site of the Albanian state television RTSH. The video coverage of this event is reported byArs Technica, but video is removed as of now. Greater Albania is project that aims to unite all Albanians in one state. Albania soccer fans Photo credit: The Guardian On a contrary, Albanian PM thinks its invention of the Serbs. Serbian-Albanian cyber-attacks and tensions have been going on more than a decade now....
ASIO deleted the intercepted information and says processes have been put in place to prevent the error occurring again. source: www.techworm.net
The emails are sent to victims which contain a Adobe PDF file with a juicy and interesting name. When the victim clicks on the PDF, it offloads its payload aka Dyreza which is then executed. DYREZA malware uses spammed message that purports to be an invoice notification as its infection vector. It has a malicious .PDF file attachment, detected by Trend Micro as TROJ_PIDIEF.YYJU. Bitcoin Targets spotted Only in this case, the latest targets are Bitcoin related sites....
its the equivalent of a closet that cant be opened. A safe that cant be cracked. And my question is, at what cost? Both companies are run by good people, responding to what they perceive is a market demand. But the place they are leading us is one we shouldnt go to without careful thought and debate. The prevailing view is that the government is sweeping up all of our communications....
TheSnappening.org hacked Last week some 700,000 NSFW images were leaked due to a hack on SnapSaved servers. Though the images were contained not so good images they were highly in demand from world at large. An Indian, Mudit Grover who is also a Redditor made a website called theSnappening.org to host the images. The site was un-searchable but you did not have to download 13 gigs of torrent on your PCs....
They have named the sample found in the wild as Ventir. As per Kaspersky, Ventir OS X malware is a keylogger and also contains a backdoor. It can also be used for spying and stealing information from the victims Mac. If it has root access, it proceeds to install all the files of the keylogging component. The root access/access privileges determine how much Ventir can run and the path for installation of Ventir files....
