Published in June 20th, 2008
Two Orange County teenagers have been charged with breaking into school computers, installing spyware and altering grades. Omar Khan and Tanvir Singh, both 18-years old, face more than just a trip down to the Principal’s office as they are both charged for breaking into and then hacking Tesoro High School computers in Orange County California. [...]
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Published in June 6th, 2008
Hong Kong domain has jumped 28 places as the most dangerous place to surf and search on the web according to a new McAfee report called “Mapping the Mal Web Revisited” which was released recently. Hong Kong takes the mantle from Tokelau, a tiny island of 1,500 inhabitants in the South Pacific. The report reveals [...]
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Published in May 29th, 2008
A New Zealand teenager, who has admitted being part of a global cyber-hacking ring that caused millions of dollars worth of computer damage to businesses, could now be facing a jail sentence. The teenager, Owen Walker has pleaded guilty to charges of accessing a computer for dishonest purpose, damaging or interfering with a computer system, [...]
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Published in May 27th, 2008
Australian huge Telco company Telsta have been embarrassed by handing out malware-infected USB drives to tutorial attendees at the AusCERT security conference on the Gold Coast. AusCERT’s marketing manager Claire Groves confirmed the USB sticks came certified pre-owned (thanks Dan Geer) and were given out at a tutorial at the conference. The malware was of [...]
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Published in May 16th, 2008
Microsoft has issued four security patches in its latest monthly update. The May edition of Patch Tuesday features patches for three issues rated ‘critical’ and a fourth rated ‘moderate’. Experts say the most serious of this month’s Patch Tuesday bulletins includes a critical update in the Jet Data Base Engine, affecting different versions of Windows, [...]
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Published in May 14th, 2008
An international computer hacking gang broke into the computerized cash registers electronically at the Dave and Buster’s restaurant in Islandia and stole credit card information of 675 customers. Authorities say the alleged hackers obtained more than 5,000 customer credit card numbers, which they then used to make fraudulent purchases around the world using software called [...]
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Published in May 7th, 2008
Yahoo has penned a deal with McAfee to use its SiteAdvisor software to warn users about potentially dangerous websites. The search giant plans to filter out malicious Web sites from its search results using McAfee’s SiteAdvisor software. The new security feature will place a red exclamation mark next to search links McAfee believes are involved [...]
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Published in April 30th, 2008
A new contest running at the DefCon hacker conference this year (held in Las Vegas in August) is already stirring up controversy. It will challenge hackers to design malware that can’t be detected by anti-virus programs such as ones offered by Symantec and McAfee. Awards will be given for “Most elegant obfuscation,” “Dirtiest hack of [...]
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Published in April 29th, 2008
The United Nations and United Kingdom government Web sites have fallen victim to a widespread malware attack that have infected hundreds of thousands of legitimate sites worldwide. The exact number of sites that have been compromised is unknown, said Hubbard, vice president of security research at Websense Inc. He estimated that it’s similar to the [...]
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Published in April 22nd, 2008
PayPal has denied claims it plans to lock Safari users out of its online payments service as it reinforces its protections against online credit fraud. Although PayPal didn’t officially say that it would be banning transactions on Apple’s Safari browser, many assumed that the online payment service provider included Safari on its list of unsafe [...]
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