“The Russian shadow economy is an economy of scale, one that is service oriented and that has become a kleptocracy wherein crony capitalism has obtained a new lease on life in cyberspace,” says a new report into the cybercriminal Russian underground.
The cyberwar of words and malware between US/Israel and Iran
The cyberwar between the US/Israel and Iran is one of words as well as computer code. It is widely thought that Iranian hackers are behind the recent spate of attacks against US banks, and that the DDoS attack against HSBC was a specific Iranian hacker…
This is a far, far weirder thing than Sony has ever done
Last week it emerged that the William Faulkner estate was suing Sony over the distribution of the Woody Allen movie, ‘Midnight in Paris.’ On the very next day it launched a second suit against Northrop Grumman and the Washington Post.
Hacker Halted: Government Needs to Embrace Bug Bounty Incentive
We have nothing to lose by offering bug bounty rewards, Jeremiah Grossman, Founder and CTO of WhiteHat Security told the audience at Hacker Halted in Miami, 29th October 2012.
Problems at a cyber security conference highlight the difficulties in information sharing
The 12th ICS Cyber Security Conference was held Oct 22-25 at the Old Dominion University’s Virginia Modeling Analysis and Simulation Center – but did not quite go to plan…
Anonymous hacks Greek Ministry of Finance
As public demonstrations against austerity measures grow in Greece, and support for far-right organizations such as the Golden Dawn increases, Anonymous hacks into the Ministry of Finance and releases confidential documents just days before the governm…
Hacker Halted: Forget About Securing Devices and Secure the Data
Opening the Hacker Halted conference in Miami, Florida, 29th October 2012, Jav Bavisi, president and CEO of the EC-Council, told the audience that the post-PC era of computing requires a fundamental shift in the security industry’s tactics.
NullCrew continues its hacking spree with a new international operation
NullCrew is a hacking team that bears some similarities to the defunct LulzSec: it has sympathy with Anonymous, but is separate from Anonymous. It does, however, operate with none of the taunting flamboyance that probably led to the downfall of LulzSec.
3.6 million social security numbers and 387,000 card numbers stolen
Taxpayers in South Carolina have been told of a security breach involving the theft of millions of social security numbers and hundreds of thousands of debit and credit card numbers. None of the SSNs were encrypted and 16,000 of the bank cards were sim…
DDoS and SQL injection are the most popular attack subjects
An analysis of conversations in one of the largest known hacker forums – with around 250,000 members – has revealed that SQL-injection and DDoS are the subjects of most interest to up-and-coming wannabe hackers.