The announcement yesterday's of the discovery of a botnet command and control database of user credentials for Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, ADP and others is just the latest in a trend going back... read more
Oz Government: TPP papers will stay secret
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2013-12-09 01:49
Australians interested in knowing just what's going to be in the controversial Trans Pacific Partnership agreement will have to hope someone leaks the latest text, with the government resisting last week's Senate order to produce the documents.
According to Fairfax, the government says the treaty text will only be made public after it's been signed.
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Samsung tries to silence user whose S4 caught fire, it doesn't go over well
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2013-12-09 01:42
Oh Samsung, you tried to have a YouTube video pulled after it showed a Galaxy S4 that caught fire while charging but this is about to blow up in your PR and legal teams face after you sent a ‘hush’ document to the user.
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Dozens of zero-day flaws exist for exploit daily, report says
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2013-12-09 01:33
On any given day cybercriminals and nation states are in possession of as many as 100 zero-day software exploits known only to them, NSS Labs has calculated using the commercial vulnerability market as a baseline.
NSS Labs research director Dr. Stefan Frei reached this startling conclusion after studying at up to ten years’ worth of software vulnerability data from the two firms that pioneered the market for purchasing flaws from researchers, iDefense (which started its program in 2002) and TippingPoint (which started in 2005 and is now owned by Hewlett-Packard).
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How strong is your password? Microsoft's Telepathwords may well predict it
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2013-12-09 01:31
In the wake of the huge password breach where sites such as Facebook and Yahoo! were compromised, Microsoft developers have released a tool to curb the issue of account hacking.
Experimental project Telepathwords detects how risky passcodes are by predicting your password setting habits. The engine utilises a collection of passwords in its database along with an AI to make accurate predictions.
Common passwords which were made public as a result of security breaches alongside common password-selection behaviours such as “123456” are also easily predicted by the program.
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Anonymous hackers plead guilty to 2010 PayPal cyberattack
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2013-12-09 01:28
Thirteen people have pleaded guilty to charges they were involved in a 2010 cyberattack on PayPal for the eBay unit's refusal to process payments for WikiLeaks.
The hacktivist collective claimed responsibility for engineering the December 2010 distributed-denial-of-service attack in retaliation for the online payment processing company's suspension of an account linked to WikiLeaks after the document-leaking organization released a large number of classified documents.
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