Yahoo Japan says 22 million user IDs may have been stolen
Yahoo Japan, the country's largest Web portal, said up to 22 million user IDs may have been leaked during a hack that was discovered last week. read moremore…
Jumcar. From Peru with a focus on Latin America [First part]
“Jumcar” is the name we have given to a family of malicious code developed in Latin America – particularly in Peru – and which, according to our research, has been deploying attack maneuvers since March 2012. After six months of research we can now detail the specific features of Jumcar. We will communicate these over […]more…
Mass Customized Attacks Show Malware Maturity
L33tdawg: Video of their talk from #HITB2013AMS is available on YouTube. Products frequently follow a trajectory from customized prototypes to mass-produced goods, and — when the market matures — manufacturers typically find ways to lure consumers by allowing efficient customization. Tags: Adobe Malware Security HITB2013AMSmore…
Four Anons cuffed in Italy
Four individuals accused of being members of Anonymous and participating in “Operation Tango Down” have been arrested in Italy. According to AFP, the four are being accused of various attacks in Italy, including a DDoS against the Vatican and the parliamentary Website. The Postal Police – responsible for enforcement of communications law – carried out […]more…
EMC vuln gives mere sysadmins the power of storage admins
EMC has warned a flaw in the Control Station software for its VNX and Celerra arrays could allow just about anyone logged into them to do just about anything. EMC’s described the fault as stemming from “Script files in affected products exist with ownership permissions for the nasadmin group account.” Tags: EMC Securitymore…
Syrian hacker group pops FT Twitter account, website
The Twitter feed of the Financial Times has been suspended after it was hacked and malicious links posted. Both the Twitter account and website of the FT were hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army hacker group. Stories on the FT’s website had headlines replaced by ‘Hacked by Syrian Electronic Army’ and messages on its Twitter […]more…