RSA has announced that another wave of attacks on major banks is coming and rather than a DDoS style attack, this one is organized by a cyber-gang intent on pilfering money through a Trojan attack they have dubbed “Gozi Prinimalka”.
Category: Hacking and Security
Mysterious bot generated 4% of all Wall Street traffic and 10% of allowable trades last week
Nanex, the top tracker of high frequency trading activity on Wall Street, reported today that a single mysterious computer program made up 4% of all quote traffic on the stock market last week. It also accounted for 10% of the allowed trading for the day. The program placed orders in batches of 200, then 400,…
RSA proposes ingenious security mechanism that would store passwords across multiple locations
The folks at RSA have proposed a new method of securing user passwords obtained from database hacks – break the password into separate pieces and store them at separate locations. If the database were compromised and the password stolen, all the hacker would have would be half of the password hash which would make it…
Mass Murder in World of Warcraft game – hackers take down entire cities [VIDEO]
4.5 million DSL modems hacked in Brazil then users pointed to malicious websites
Kaspersky Lab reported this week, that 4.5 million DSL modems in Brazil were hacked last year via a vulnerability in their ADSL modems that allowed hackers to steal passwords using scripting and then remote control the devices in order to change the modem’s configuration parameters. At some Brazilian ISPs, more than half of their customers…
Beware: Good Twitter handles are being stolen and sold for gold
How important is a strong password on Twitter? Depends on how much you value your Twitter handle. If a hacker can spoof their IP address, they can hack away at your Twitter password all day without repercussions. They do this because good Twitter handles can be sold for a pretty penny, up to $1,000 in…
Makers of critical Smart-Grid energy sector software hacked – digital footprints point to Chinese hacker group
Telvent, makers of critical electrical grid software, discovered on September 10, 2012 that it had suffered a breach into its network – a sophisticated hacker attack spanning its operations in the United States, Canada, and Spain. Project files were stolen and malware installed by the attackers. Digital fingerprints suggest the attacks are related to Comment…
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…
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
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.








