Criminal hackers have found a way round the latest generation of online banking security devices given out by banks, the BBC has learned.
After logging in to the bank's real site, account holders are being tricked by the offer of training in a new "upgraded security system". Money is then moved out of the account but this is hidden from the user.
This DIYer had a 1st generation iPhone lying around, so he decided to put it to good use. You can use any phone to accomplish this, even a $10 prepaid phone. An SMS to the iPhone goes through an Arduino which tells yours car to start or stop from anywhere. There’s some custom circuitry and programming which is all included in the instructions. When a text message is sent to the iPhone, the iPhone tells the Arduino to start the engine, and the iPhone sends a message back reporting that the start has commenced.
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Facebook's billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls himself a hacker.
For most people, that word means something malicious - shady criminals who listen in on private voicemails, or anonymous villains who cripple websites and break into email accounts.
VeriSign, the company responsible for guiding most of the world's Internet users to the correct websites and once the largest encryption certificate issuing authority, has acknowledged that it was successfully hacked several times in 2010.
The admission was disclosed last fall in a VeriSign filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), but did not come to light until today when Reuters reported on its investigation of new SEC guidelines on such disclosures.
Hackers are compromising WordPress 3.2.1 blogs in order to infect their visitors with the notorious TDSS rootkit, according to researchers from Web security firm Websense.
It's not clear how the websites are being compromised, but there are publicly known exploits for vulnerabilities that affect WordPress 3.2.1, which is an older version of the popular blog publishing platform.
A Richmond police officer is facing criticism and anger Monday for a Twitter comment he made about Internet hackers.
Angry posts on the Facebook pages of the Richmond Police Department and the Contra Costa Times are criticizing the officer for his Jan. 26 tweet about a hacker attack on the Ultimate Fighting Championship website.
Pull out your credit card and flip it over. If the back is marked with the words “PayPass,” “Blink,” that triangle of nested arcs that serves as the universal symbol for wireless data or a few other obscure icons, Kristin Paget says it’s vulnerable to an uber-stealthy form of pickpocketing. As she showed on a Washington D.C. stage Saturday, she can read all the data she needs to make a fraudulent transaction off that card with just a few hundred dollars worth of equipment, and do it invisibly through your wallet, purse, or pocket.
China-based hackers looking to derail the $40 billion acquisition of the world’s largest potash producer by an Australian mining giant zeroed in on offices on Toronto’s Bay Street, home of the Canadian law firms handling the deal.
Hackers from the Anonymous Movement group fought out a day-long attack against websites of Brazil's Banco Itau SA on Monday, shutting down service on several occasions, and threatened more action during the week.
"Attention sailors: target hit! The http://www.itau.com.br is sinking! TANGO DOWN!" the group proclaimed via Twitter and on Facebook, under the AnonBRNews feed.
Anti-virus giant Symantec says it did not know back in 2006 that source code for its software was stolen when it experienced a breach at that time.
