Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Samsung Galaxy Smartphones Vulnerable to Malicious Wiping

A security researcher demonstrated at a security conference last week in Argentina the weaknesses built into Samsung's Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD), which allows message communication to go from the phone to the application server. Samsung's TouchWiz communicates with USSD and appears to be affected, he said.  The demonstration showed how a hacker could take advantage of the vulnerability and attack a user who accesses on a bad link.  Hackers can then remotely wipe the handset and SIM card in just a few minutes, and re-set the device to factory mode. This happens because of malicious code embedded within a website.

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Sunday, September 23, 2012

Iranian hackers target Bank of America, JPMorgan, Citi

Iranian hackers have repeatedly attacked Bank of America Corp, JPMorgan Chase & Co and Citigroup Inc over the past year as part of a broad cyber campaign targeting the United States, according to people familiar with the situation. The attacks, which began in late 2011 and escalated this year, have primarily been "denial of service" campaigns that disrupted the banks' websites and corporate networks by overwhelming them with incoming web traffic, said the sources. They said there was evidence suggesting the hackers targeted the three banks in retaliation for their enforcement of Western economic sanctions against Iran. Visit our site to learn about computer forensics or Information Security. Cases of computer trespass or criminal hacking allegations may involve complex legal issues that may be addressed by an Internet lawyer.

Saturday, September 22, 2012

Microsoft says has fixed Internet Explorer flaw

Microsoft Corp said it has fixed a security bug in Internet Explorer that hackers exploited to attack some customers. The attacks prompted the German government and security experts to urge people to temporarily stop using the browser.

The software maker said late Wednesday that the permanent repair to the software, used by hundreds of millions of people, would be released on Friday. A majority of Microsoft Windows users have their computers set to automatically download that update.

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Monday, September 17, 2012

Flame cyber virus linked to more malware


The Flame virus is an interesting example of the effort against Iran's nuclear plant. The Flame virus believed to be part of a cyberwarfare effort against Iran was developed as early as 2006 and is linked to at least three other malware programs, a new analysis says.
The report suggests the effort to develop Flame, widely reported to be part of a US-Israeli effort to slow Iran's suspected nuclear weapons drive, has been going on longer than initially believed and has more components, including some not yet fully understood.

The report on Monday by the Russian security firm, Kaspersky Lab, with US-based Symantec, Germany's computer emergency response team and the International Telecommunication Union's cybersecurity arm showed that development of the Flame platform dates back to 2006.

An earlier analysis by Kaspersky had reported the code for Flame, which is likely related to Stuxnet and other viruses, was written in 2009.

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Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Bitfloor Hacked


Bitfloor, the fourth largest exchange dealing in US dollars, has just announced that it has been hacked, and the service has taken a loss worth about $250,000 at the time of the theft. As Roman Shtylman, the founder of Bitfloor, describes it, “last night, a few of our servers were compromised. As a result, the attacker gained accesses to an unencrypted backup of the wallet keys (the actual keys live in an encrypted area). Using these keys they were able to transfer the coins. This attack took the vast majority of the coins BitFloor was holding on hand.” As a result, BitFloor has paused all exchange operations and, depending on the effect that this will have on BitFloor’s finances, BitFloor may take one of two options. They may either take the loss and continue running in an attempt to eventually earn the money back or, in the worst case, shut down entirely and begin an account partial refund process out of the available funds.Visit our site to learn about computer forensics or Information Security. Cases involving criminal hacking allegations may involve complex legal issues that may be addressed by an Internet lawyer.

Sunday, September 2, 2012

Cyber-espionage Mahdi virus spreads further in Middle East

Virus developers have changed the code to evade detection, according to Israel-based Seculert, which said that there have been 150 new victims over the past six weeks. That brings the total number of infections to about 1,000, Reuters reports.

In Islamic tradition, the Mahdi is the prophesied redeemer of Islam who will rule before the Day of Judgment, ridding the world of injustice and tyranny. Appropriately, the spyware virus that takes its name appears to be politically motivated, built to steal files and monitor emails and instant messages. It also sends screenshots and snapshots of audio and keystroke sequences back to its developers.

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Saturday, September 1, 2012

Pirate Bay's Gottfrid Svartholm Arrested in Cambodia


Reports indicate that the founder of the popular file-sharing site The Pirate Bay, Gottfrid Svartholm, was picked up by Cambodian police on Thursday.
There's no indication as to what the 27-year-old was specifically arrested for, but Svartholm's lawyer has since been quoted as saying that the arrest likely relates to Svartholm's presence on an "international wanted list."

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