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A Malware has been detected on Geo Television’s official website which is Pakistan’s one of the famous private News Channel. founded by Mr. Mir Shakil ur Rehman in May 2002 and owned by Independent Media Corporation. A warning can be seen while opening the main page of Geo Tv’s website. www.geo.tv contains malware. Your computer might catch a virus if you visit […]
News of SMS (text) phishing scams are nothing new to readers of this blog. ESET researcher Cameron Camp recently wrote an article explaining how they work and how to avoid them here on ESET’s Threat Blog: SMSmishing (SMS Text Phishing) – how to spot and avoid scams, And just before Valentine’s Day, my colleague Stephen
With the recent announcements of password breaches at LinkedIn, and warnings from Google about state-sponsored attacks on Gmail accounts, it seems like a good idea now to review some password security basics. In this blog post, we’re going to take a look at a rather low-tech solution to a decidedly high-tech problem: How to guard
CeCOS, to be held in Prague between 25-27 April,will again look at operational issues and the development of communal resources for first responders and forensic professionals.
According to TorrentFreak , in a latest leak it has been has revealed that Swedish police is planning to raid Pirate Bay for the second time, the company was first time raided in 2006 by a team of 65 Swedish officers. Police was asked to completely shutdown the Pirate Bay server as it posed a ”threat” to the entertainment industry at that […]
As we updated you previously about internet shutdown on 8th March 2012, its time to update you with latest development on the same issue, as an order has been issued by the district court New York, after which the March 8th deadline has been extended to July 9th 2012. The extension was granted to continue the search for infected/affected […]
A common man when thinks about cyber terrorism or cyber crime, they think it may be just an illegal activity over some credit cards or online bank accounts, DDOS attacks, hacked social networking website profiles etc but what they do not think is the water running down from the tap, lights inside their home and […]
LulzSec hacking group was raided in two continents by the police earlier today, where it gathered large number of evidence assisted by the group’s leader “Sabu” who according to Fox News report had been secretly working for the FBI and government for months, resulted in arrest of three and charged two more with conspiracy from LulzSec group. Fox News report says […]
According to Zone-H administrators, the website has been banned by some Indian ISPs in the country following the court order. Hack archive service provider website was banned after the lawsuit from E2labs, E2-labs scandals and Zaki Qureshey in an indian court, who claimed their documents and articles were defamatory. While Zone-H was not given any notice or chance, hence there was no question […]
Security can’t be purely the responsibility of the government, the police, the security industry, the ISPs, the public sector, private industry, or any permutation thereof.
Like everyone else, law enforcement is expected to perform miracles of efficiency. But it’s not all about financial analysis: there is no such thing as victimless crime.
As increasing sectors of the internet migrate to Facebook as a deployment platform (Zygna, etc.), a new effort aims to spread the preference aggregation features to include things users either own or would like to own. By allowing users to add Own and Want buttons to their profile, users can highlight both a Wishlist and
Yesterday’s announcement by the US Department of Justice that the operators of file-sharing site Megaupload had been indicted for operating a criminal enterprise that generated over $175 million by trafficking in over half a billion dollars of pirated copyrighted material has sent shockwaves across the Internet. The accuracy of those figures may be questionable, but
We read that Zappos.com was breached on Sunday, to the tune of 24+ million users’ worth of information. But it seems at first blush they responded well. Of course, a company would hope to never have a breach at all, but when it happened at Zappos.com, here are some of the things they appear to
Do Xmas shopping and porn surfing account for a spike in Win32/Scrinject detections?
Recently we noted that unencrypted credit card storage was on the rise in 2011, and also highlighted the expense involved to the company in the event of a credit card breach. Now we see personal data – including unencrypted credit card information – being paraded out as a part of the recent Stratfor hack. Also,
Exactly how people will abuse digital technology for their own ends is difficult to predict, but organizations must plan ahead to protect data and systems. That’s why we have been posting our “best guess” cybersecurity predictions on the Threat Blog this month. Today we present 9 of the most important predictions in the form of
Ransomware, the practice of providing fake notifications that “you’re infected” and then selling a fake solution that removes the fake malware they just installed, has been a boon for scammers. Now, they’re taking it a step farther, throwing in a law enforcement scare. In this latest scam, an official-looking banner appears on infected machines, purporting
To round out our series of malware and cybercrime predictions here are some of my thoughts on what the next 12 months will bring. I expect more high profile arrests of cyber-criminals but no abatement in criminal activity that seeks to profit at the expense of data owners. Some of these arrests will occur in
In a scathing and far-reaching US Congressional report released recently the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was characterized in these unflattering terms: “Since its inception, TSA has lost its focus on transportation security. Instead, it has grown into an enormous, inflexible and distracted bureaucracy, more concerned with human resource management and consolidating power, and acting reactively
Citing a “serious lack” of attorney expertise in prosecuting cybercrime, New Jersey Prosecutor John Molinelli decided it was time for attorneys to go back to school. He states, “There was a serious lack of prosecuting attorneys – there’s probably a lack of attorneys, in general, who really know this area,” and decided to do something