The state of Connecticut has slapped Citi with a $55,000 settlement over a 2011 data breach that resulted in hackers gaining access to names, account numbers and e-mail addresses belonging to around 360,000 Citi North American credit card customers.
Syrian Electronic Army defaces US Marine Website
The Syrian Electronic Army’s latest exploit has been to hack and deface a US Marines recruitment website. The defacement showed a series of photos with military-dressed personnel, faces obscured, holding handwritten messages.
FinFisher Spyware Presentation Details Leaked
FinFisher is a trojan spyware kit developed and marketed by the UK/German company Gamma Group. It is used by many governments around the world for surveillance purposes – and was notoriously found to be targeting Bahraini activists.
A Q&A with MafiaBoy
MafiaBoy was the internet alias of Michael Demon Calce, a high school student from Quebec, who launched a series of highly publicized denial-of-service attacks in February 2000 against large commercial websites including Yahoo!, Amazon.com, Dell, Inc.,…
Kali Linux on Android using Linux Deploy
Kali Linux on any Android Phone or Tablet
Getting Kali Linux to run on ARM hardware has been a major goal for us since day one. So far, we’ve built native images for the Samsung Chromebook, Odroid U2, Raspberry Pi, RK3306, Galaxy Note 10.1,…
Infosecurity Weekly News Update: 26 August – 2 September 2013
Dan Raywood summarizes all of the top news headlines from the information security industry from the week commencing 26 August 2013.
Tor is Not as Safe as You May Think
A new research paper, due to be presented at the 20th ACM Computer and Communications Security Conference (CCS 2013) at Berlin in November, has demonstrated that over time Tor users can be discovered with a high degree of accuracy.
Black Budget: NSA’s Team of Elite Hackers Tasked with ‘Sabotage’
The Edward Snowden leak is the leak that keeps on giving for news organizations, apparently: New documents have been released that detail the National Security Agency and the CIA’s intelligence budget. And, perhaps not surprisingly, it points to the ex…
Black Budget: NSA’s Team of Elite Hackers Tasked with ‘Sabotage’
The Edward Snowden leak is the leak that keeps on giving for news organizations, apparently: New documents have been released that detail the National Security Agency and the CIA’s intelligence budget. And, perhaps not surprisingly, it points to the ex…
Dropbox Hackable; Well, in a Way
Two researchers have demonstrated that they can reverse engineer the Dropbox client and gain access to the user’s cloud storage. But first they have to own the user’s computer – and if they do that, they’ve probably got the files locally.