Seven rent-to-own companies secretly monitored and remotely controlled customers’ rented PCs – captured users’ intimate moments

It comes as no surprise that rent-to-own companies can be a little… seedy. Seven rent-to-own companies, comprising 1,617 stores in the United States and Canada, and a software developer based in Pennsylvania, have settled federal charges that they used spyware to remotely monitor their customers who rented personal computers, including turning on webcams to monitor…

Security researchers presented a Samsung Galaxy exploit in which they demonstrated an instant hard reset of the Galaxy S II and Galaxy S Advance when a simple web page link is clicked. The bug relates to Samsung specific diagnostic reset codes which are accessible via the phone dialer.

Security researchers have identified a new botnet that is controlled by attackers from an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server running as a hidden service inside the Tor anonymity network. Unable to determine its real location or sniff its encrypted traffic, law enforcement are going to have a tough time shutting it down.

The banks of JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America are being increasingly targeted this week, in a systematic denial-of-service (DoS) attack against their websites. National security officials told NBC News that the cyber attacks are originating from the government of Iran and as a result, the cyber threat level was raised from “elevated” to…

If you run Sophos Antivirus and have it set to nuke malicious files upon detection, you may no longer have automatic updates. Sophos recently pushed an update that created a pretty funny false positive. Sophos Antivirus mistakenly detected its own automatic updater as malware.

Attackers have begun exploiting new Zero-Day Internet Explorer vulnerability (UPDATE)

According to ComputerWorld, attackers have begun exploiting a new zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browser. The vulnerability allows hackers to hijack Windows PCs that browse to malicious or compromised websites.

Symantec has provided details on an attack system known as The Elderwood Project that appears to be sponsored by the Chinese military complex. The first instance of this attack vector occurred in 2009 when Google computers were comprised by a group using a zero-day exploit in Internet Explorer. it was determined that the group was…

Visitors to Al Jazeera’s website got a surprise overnight. Hackers replaced Al Jazeera’s home page with a message saying it was done in protest against the Doha-based television station’s coverage of the Syrian conflict. The attack lasted for several hours during which visitors were served a page with a Syrian flag and a message explaining…

Antisec (hacking group) is at it again and this time they’ve surprised us with an example of how lax the United States’ security policies have become. Antisec managed to hack an FBI agent’s Dell laptop computer. Utilizing a shell session, the hacker(s) noticed a file sitting on the FBI agent’s desktop that look interesting. They…

Category: Hacking and Security

Seven rent-to-own companies secretly monitored and remotely controlled customers’ rented PCs – captured users’ intimate moments

Samsung Galaxy S II and S Advance zero-day exploit allow complete phone wipe when tel: link clicked [UPDATE]

If you are running Tor, you might be running a botnet too

Iran launches organized cyberattack against U.S. banks

Sophos Antivirus flags its own files as malware and then protects you by deleting itself

Attackers have begun exploiting new Zero-Day Internet Explorer vulnerability (UPDATE)

An Elite Chinese cyberattack unit has been pawning U.S. computers for three years and counting

Al Jazeera website hacked

Antisec hacks 12 million Apple UDIDs from FBI Cyber Security agent’s laptop

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