2012 is not looking to good for consumers. The year is not even halfway over and already, smartphone users are being hit by an onslaught of hack attempts. In fact, some security experts forecast 2012 as “The Year of the Smartphone Hacker.” Smartphone users face a lot of risks. From infected apps to spyware to [...]
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US Congress divided on cyberthreat issue
Last February a mysterious caller said that he was from Microsoft. This caller offered step-by-step instructions to fix the damage caused by a software virus. The electric power companies he called did not fall for the trick. It turned out that the caller helpfully stepped the companies through processes in their computers, which would have [...]
Hackers Abuse PHP Setting To Inject Malicious Code Into Websites
Just when you thought web servers have the security software blankets more competently implemented to than ordinary consumers do with their antivirus and personal firewall solutions, hackers have discovered that abusing a directive from a PHP configuration allows them to insert damaging code in sites hosted on VPS (Virtual Private Servers) or dedicated servers that [...]
Anonymous Hacks Into Security Think Tank Data
The notorious hacker group called Anonymous is claiming another successful hacking last Sunday. This time, its victim is the Stratfor Global Intelligence, a security think tank based in Austin, Texas. Anonymous proudly claims to have siphoned off 200GB of data that included emails and credit card information from employees of Stratfor clients. Anonymous has twitted [...]
Hackers Targeting Defense Companies Through Adobe Reader Vulnerability
Malicious PDF’s that where attached to messages sent in November have been confirmed by Symantec’s security researchers this week as exploits intended for defense contractors and other businesses. Symantec’s Joshua Talbot reported that the exploit on Adobe Reader’s unpatched flaw have been sent to various people coming from defense, chemical, manufacturing, computer hardware and telecommunications [...]
How to Prevent your Website from being Hacked
It may not be obvious but there is a war going on all over the World Wide Web. There are three sides in this war. The first group is the website owners-whether they own their own servers, lease space on a server, or build web pages or accounts on free web services. The second group [...]
Hackers Are Feasting On Java Vulnerabilities
Microsoft reported that the vulnerabilities found on the Java software is continuously being exploited by hackers. Director of the Trustworthy Computing group under Microsoft Tim Rain explained that Java exploits cover half of all attacks that were blocked by the company’s security software within a year’s scope. There were over 27 million Java exploits blocked [...]
Wine Library Hacked Credit Cards Possibly Compromised
Wine Library, owned by Gary Vaynerchuk, sent an email to its patrons on November 21 regarding a reported security breach in its system. The credit card information buyers used for WineLibrary.com might have been stolen, the report explains. The website has more than a hundred thousand users but the number of accounts that were affected [...]
Facebook Compromised Spreading Porn and Violence
The social network giant is receiving reports of hacking activities where Facebook users are flooded with images of violent acts, pornography, bestiality and self-mutilation. Users of the site have noticed such graphic images emerging in their News Feeds in the last two or three days. Such photos accordingly are “Liked” by these users without their [...]
Symantec Traces Nitro Campaign Hackers
Symantec identified a hacker campaign dubbed as “Nitro” where attackers utilized a Trojan horse to steal secrets from almost fifty companies, a majority of whom are under the defense and chemical industries. Early this week, Symantec revealed that the remote access Trojan (RAT) dubbed as “Poison Ivy” used in the Nitro campaign was made available [...]