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UK Conservative Party Websites Defaced
2 March 2010, 2:05 pm

An unknown attacker has managed to deface multiple websites associated with the UK Conservative Party by compromising a common registrar/webhost administrative account. Evidence in the form of a screenshot pack is circulating on underground hacking forums.

The incident was reported by Christopher "Paperghost" Boyd, a long-time Microsoft Security... (read more)

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Chile Earthquake Search Results Poisoned with Malicious Links
1 March 2010, 4:47 pm

Cyber-crooks are exploiting the major earthquake that occurred in Chile on Saturday by poisoning search results related to the event in order to push scareware. Security researchers warn that a new technique is being used to erroneously display the file format for malicious links as PDF.

An 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck ... (read more)

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Five Years Behind Bars for DarkMarket Founder
1 March 2010, 3:05 pm

Renukanth Subramaniam, the founder of the DarkMarket carding forum, was sentenced to 56 months in prison by a UK court last Friday. Another DarkMarket regular named John McHugh was jailed for two years on similar charges.

Renukanth Subramaniam, 33, lived a double life as a pizza delivery man in North London and a notorious carder known as... (read more)

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VirusTotal Brand Abused to Push Scareware
27 February 2010, 1:17 pm

The name of the popular file analysis service VirusTotal is being abused by cyber-crooks to infect users with scareware. A recent forum spam campaign tries to trick people into visiting a malicious website hosted at virus-total.in.

Security researchers from Sophos reported a spam run promoting the rogue virus-total domain, as a private mess... (read more)

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Beware of Tilikum Killer Whale Search Results
26 February 2010, 4:38 pm

Security researchers warn that scareware distributors are exploiting yet another tragedy in order to earn some money. People searching the Web for news of Tilikum, an orca that killed a trainer during a live show two days ago, are likely to encounter malicious URLs.

On February 24, at the end of a show at SeaWorld Orlando, 40-year-old tra... (read more)

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UFC Starts Beating Up On Online Pirates
26 February 2010, 3:18 pm

The 17-years-old free fighting championship seems to have put its foot in the door regarding online piracy. In a two-month span, UFC filed two major lawsuits against a bar owner from Boston (early January 2010) and Moazzam Gandu, the owner of Rage-Stream.net (mid-February 2010).

After a tumultuous career in which piracy practically saved its life,... (read more)

Source: Softpedia News - Security

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Gross Negligence Surfaces in Baidu Domain Hijacking Incident
26 February 2010, 2:39 pm

An unredacted copy of the complaint filed by Chinese Internet search engine Baidu against Register.com in a New York court last month has surfaced on the Internet. The document reveals that a group of Iranian hacktivists hijacked Baidu's domain name by unconvincingly impersonating a company representative.

On January 12, ba... (read more)

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Microsoft Harasses Longstanding Whistleblower Website
25 February 2010, 3:56 pm

Popular whistleblower website Cryptome.org was forcefully shut down after Microsoft served its hosting provider Network Solution with DMCA takedown notification. The software giant's lawyers took aim at the website after it published the company's "Global Criminal Compliance Handbook."

The "Global Criminal Compliance Handbook" (PD... (read more)

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NSW Transport Minister Accuses Journalists of Hacking
25 February 2010, 12:22 pm

The exclusive story about a New South Wales government's secret transport blueprint resulted in hacking accusations directed at journalists from the Sydney Morning Herald. The accused defended themselves by pointing out that the information was publicly accessible on an unprotected government website.

During the past weeken... (read more)

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Adobe Patches Critical Bug in Download Manager
24 February 2010, 3:56 pm

Adobe released a security update yesterday for its Download Manager (DLM) application used to install Flash Player and Adobe Reader. The patch addresses a critical remote code execution vulnerability, which allowed a potential attacker to push any executable file to unsuspecting users.

The serious Adobe DLM flaw was publicly disclosed on... (read more)

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Online Star Tribune Readers Attacked via Malvertizement
23 February 2010, 4:23 pm

Unidentified attackers have managed to push a malicious advertisement onto the website of the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the biggest newspaper in Minnesota. The startribune.com admins disabled all advertising on the site yesterday and told readers to perform free security scans.

The attack began on Sunday, with readers reporting ... (read more)

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Memory-Resident Malware Infects Routers
22 February 2010, 5:33 pm

Czech security researchers warn of a worm-like piece of malware infecting Linux-based routers, DLS modems and other embedded devices. The infected devices form a botnet capable of launching Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.

According to a report from Computerworld, the researchers have named the worm Chuck Norris, after a commen... (read more)

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[Gilbert]

School District Accused of Spying on Students in Their Homes
20 February 2010, 12:11 pm

The Lower Merion School District in Pennsylvania is being sued for spying on its students via webcams installed in school-issued laptops. The class action lawsuit was initiated after an image taken with such a device was allegedly cited as evidence for disciplinary action against a high-school student.

The class action co... (read more)

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[Gilbert]

Adobe Download Manager Flaw Facilitates Rogue Installs
19 February 2010, 4:33 pm

A serious vulnerability has been identified in the Adobe Download Manager application used to update Flash Player and Adobe Reader. Attackers can reportedly leverage the bug to forcefully install any executable file on computers with the vulnerable application installed.

According to Adobe, the purpose of its Download Manager (DL... (read more)

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[Gilbert]

Exploit Code Available for Unpatched Firefox Bug
19 February 2010, 12:58 pm

A Russian security research company has released a working exploit for a previously undisclosed vulnerability in the latest version of Firefox. The zero-day attack code can be leveraged to execute arbitrary code remotely and is confirmed to work on Windows XP and Vista.

The flaw affecting Firefox 3.6, the latest stable iteration of the... (read more)

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