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LulzSec leader Sabu helps police arrest Anonymous hackers
Sabu, the apparent leader of the LulzSec hacktivist group, has been unmasked by the FBI last June and has since been working with them to secure evidence against the …
New P2P botnet soon available for sale
The development of a new botnet that will rely on a decentralized architecture based on P2P technology is nearing completion and will soon be offered for sale for a sum of …
Flash vulnerability exploited to deliver malware
Attackers are once again exploiting the public’s tendency for not keeping its software updated and its ongoing interest about Iran and its nuclear program to infect …
IT security in 2020
Predicting how the world will look like a hundred years from now might seem to many like an exercise in futility given the rapid pace of technological development, but a …
Visa pressures banks into closing spammers’ accounts
When computer science professor Stefan Savage and his team of researchers unveiled their analysis of the spam monetization model last year, they described 15 steps required …
Programmer hacks GitHub to prove a point
Russian programmer Egor Homakov has recently chosen a questionable tactic to prove the danger that a Ruby on Rails public key form update vulnerability poses to systems based …
Tax-themed spam email leads to malware
Cyber criminals are becoming increasingly adept at turning out legitimate-looking spam emails, making sometimes even more experience users fall for the various scams. SANS …
Pinterest users targeted with scams
Pinterest, the pinboard-styled social photo sharing website that got so popular even Mark Zuckerberg opened a profile to see what all the fuss was about, has also caught the …
Amphion Forum, a security event to watch
Kurt Stammberger is the VP of Market Development at Mocana and the Chair of the Amphion Forum. He is best known as the founder of the annual RSA Conference. He joined RSA …
Bogus US SEC notification leads to malware
Notifications purportedly sent by the US Securities and Exchange Commission have been hitting inboxes and trying to trick users into following a malicious link, warns GFI. The …
Anonymous’ supporters tricked into installing Zeus
Anonymous supporters that joined Operation Megaupload got more than they bargained for when they downloaded what they believed was the Slowloris DoS tool from a Pastebin post. …
$2.1 million stolen with clever social engineering
An unnamed fraudster managed to steal $2.1 million from a hospital chain’s Wells Fargo Bank escrow account by faxing a money transfer signed with a copied-and-pasted …