A group of hackers have set up a leader board website called – appropriately enough – RankMyHack.com, under which elite hackers can post information on their latest hacks and allow their peers to rank their network and system incursions.
Black market sales emails are Chinese scams says CA researcher
If you’ve started receiving emails offering you all manner of electronics and similar goods at significantly below market prices in the last few weeks, you are not alone, as a Computer Associates senior security researcher says the emails are widesprea…
Anonymous hackers hit San Francisco transport site in protest at mobile blocks
Hacking group Anonymous has defaced a website of San Francisco’s rail transport company.
GCHQ to help police catch rioters who used social networks to coordinate violence
The Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), which is responsible for key aspects of the UK’s cybersecurity, and MI5 are working with police to hunt rioters by trawling social networks.
SSL VPNs pose network security risks
The use of secure sockets layer (SSL) virtual private networks (VPNs) opens up networks to security risks, according to a white paper by NCP Engineering.
Android malware levels steadily increasing
A researcher with ESET says that his firm has identified that the volume and incidence of malware seen on the Android smartphone and tablet platform are increasing. Cameron Camp, from the East European IT security vendor, says malware authors are rampi…
New DDoS defence technology launched
Simwood has launched a defence technology that it claims can be used defend against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
Android malware eavesdrops on users, tapping Google+ as disguise says researcher
A threats analyst with Trend Micro is reporting that another piece of Android malware – from the Nickispy family – has been spotted in the wild. As with other versions of Nickispy, the malware eavesdrops on users and data sessions on the infected mobil…
Major stolen card credentials site hacked
Whilst carder forums and other types of illegal card credential exchanges are numerous on the darker side of the internet, security researcher Brian Krebs has revealed that a major vendor of stolen card details has been hacked, presumably by his/her fe…
LinkedIn bows to pressure over “social ads” privacy concerns
LinkedIn has responded to criticism of its “social ads” feature over its use of members’ names and photos in advertisements on its website.