A NEW $7 million security camera system for Parliament House has been labelled a costly and dangerous security risk, after a whistleblower revealed it has numerous ''critical'' security deficiencies and has already been brought down by hackers.
The new system failed during two protests this year, and problems with its installation led managers to move it from a secure network to one recently hacked by foreign spies.
Imperva released a report analyzing the content and activities of an online hacker forum with nearly 220,000 registered members, although many are dormant.
This forum is used by hackers for training, communications, collaboration, recruitment, commerce and even social interaction. Commercially, this forum serves as a marketplace for selling of stolen data and attack software.
Ars Technica reports that a number of Xbox Live customers are complaining of hacked accounts and unauthorised purchases, either using their Microsoft Points balance or the credit card they have on file with Xbox Live. The attacks seem to be have some sort of link to FIFA 11 and 12, with the hijacked Microsoft Points being spent on DLC for that game in the vast majority of cases -- mostly Gold packs for the Ultimate Team mode.
Sesame Street had its YouTube channel hacked on Sunday, and its highly popular child-friendly videos of muppets like Kermit the frog and the Big Bird replaced with something far less savoury: Hard core porn movies.
What would Bert and Ernie say?
The NSFW content was available for all the world to see for approximately 20 minutes, before the channel was suspended for "repeated or severe violations of our Community Guidelines."
HackWEEKDAY, a 24-hour code off that will run alongside the 9th annual Hack In The Box Security Conference 2011 Kuala Lumpur (HITBSecConf2011KUL) will be offering a cash prize of US$1337 and recruitment opportunities for winning developers. This is the first weekday hackthon in Malaysia.
Compromised PayPal accounts are a valuable commodity in the criminal underground, and crooks frequently trade them in shadowy online forums. But it wasn’t until recently that I finally encountered a proper Web site dedicated to selling hacked PayPal accounts.
The majority of Brits (97 percent) believe online hacking is an issue society needs to be worried about, says PC Tools.
Research of more than 2,000 web users by the security firm revealed one in six are 'disappointed' by how the police have handled recent attacks by groups such as Anonymous and LulzSec on high-profile organisations including Sony, the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) and News International. Furthermore, 20 percent admitted they had lost trust in firms following the an attack.
Japan plans to work more closely with private companies by sharing information on cyber attacks after defense contractor Mitsubishi Heavy Industries was hacked, the Nikkei business daily reported Sunday.
The government also aims to ratify an international treaty on online crimes, Nikkei said without citing a source.
California-based hosting provider InMotion has suffered a compromise that resulted in the defacement of thousands of home pages of websites hosted on their infrastructure, which were allegedly set to serve malware.
The compromised was confirmed by InMotion president Todd Robinson in a post published on the hosting provider's forum on Monday, in which he said that the "large scale website defacing attack" happened on Sunday, September 25th, and that the hacker's goal was only to deface websites.
Hackers have found a new hook to trick people into opening malicious attachments: send emails that purport to come from office printers, many of which now have the ability to email scanned documents.
"This is a new tactic we haven't really seen before," said Paul Wood, senior intelligence analyst for Symantec.cloud, the company's Web-based security and email branch. The emails invariably contain some kind of Trojan downloader, which can be used to download other malware or steal documents from the computer.
