Between February 2008 and May this year, Israeli hacker Ehud “The Analyzer” Tenenbaum and others tried to initiate transactions on account numbers belonging to other people, “to receive payment and other things,” says Wired. Now he’s been indicted by a federal grand jury on felony charges of conspiracy and fraud. He gained worldwide notoriety as a teenager […]
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More and more teenagers are, “trying to leave their virtual markings in the criminal world online,” say computer security experts. But, continues itproportal.com, “most of them are far from being clever”. Script kiddies’ kits are, “readily available to download through traditional websites or through peer to peer networks and provide with many DIY methods of creating malware […]
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More and more teenagers are, “trying to leave their virtual markings in the criminal world online,” say computer security experts. But, continues itproportal.com, “most of them are far from being clever”. Script kiddies’ kits are, “readily available to download through traditional websites or through peer to peer networks and provide with many DIY methods of creating malware […]
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Thieves hacked French president Nicolas Sarkozy’s personal bank account and siphoned off cash, says The Guardian. “The unknown hackers removed several small sums of money from the account after obtaining Sarkozy’s online access codes,” says the story. “An inquiry was launched after the president noticed the transactions and complained to the police, said a government spokesman. Two Congolese […]
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“Buried in the flurry of feature-related news surrounding the release of Opera 9.6″ is an item which update fixes an ‘extremely severe’ vulnerability, “that could expose Opera users to code execution attacks,” says ZDNet News. The Opera advisory, “which is not mentioned anywhere in Opera’s giddy press release,” says there s a patch out for an issue […]
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A blogger has created a proof-of-concept game which uses a PC’s video cam and microphone to secretly spy on players. “The demo, which is available here, appears to be a simple game that tests how quickly a user can click on a series of moving targets,” says The Register. But, “In our tests, the the proof-of-concept didn’t […]
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The State of Washington and Microsoft say they’ve launched legal actions against a number of ’scareware’ vendors. The actions fall under the Computer Spyware Act, says Heise Online, explaining alleged security programs are, “increasingly bombarding innocent PC users with fake messages detailing putative threats or infections”. The idea is to use the phony threats to con computer […]
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The State of Washington and Microsoft say they’ve launched legal actions against a number of ’scareware’ vendors. The actions fall under the Computer Spyware Act, says Heise Online, explaining alleged security programs are, “increasingly bombarding innocent PC users with fake messages detailing putative threats or infections”. The idea is to use the phony threats to con computer […]
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Finnish security researchers have, “discovered one of the most subtle and sophisticated examples of Windows rootkit software known to date,” says The Register. The AutoRun-NOX worm extends the standard VXer trick of using software vulnerabilities to infect systems, “by including functionality that allows the worm to exploit Windows security bugs to hook into parts of the […]
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