Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A United Kingdom spy agency acknowledged in court on Tuesday that it has carried out numerous hacking campaigns both domestically and abroad. The hacks range from monitoring a single Internet session, to planting eavesdropping software on a device, to hijacking that…
DUTCH ETHICAL HACKING PLATFORM PULLS $25 MILLION INVESTMENT
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Dutch ethical hacking platform HackerOne has received a 25 million dollar – about 22,4 million euros – investment from New Enterprise Associates, VentureBeats reports. This money will be used to employ more hackers to find flaws in companies’ digital security systems…
Airlines Pulls Ad Spoofing Secret Service Colombian Prostitution Scandal
By Donna Rapado Airlines Pulls Ad Spoofing Secret Service Colombian Prostitution Scandal April 21, 2012 Updated Apr 21, 2012 at 12:47 PM PDT Miramar-based Spirit Airlines issued an apology and pulled a racy ad spoofing the Secret Service Colombian prostitution scandal that many people found offensive. The Secret Service said…
Walmart guard pulls out Taser during confrontation with teens
HOUSTON – A parking lot confrontation at a Walmart between an off-duty police officer and several teenagers almost got violent, and it was all caught on a cellphone camera. In the video shot early Friday at a store on Beltway 8 near Beechnut, two teenagers are heard joking around in…
Symantec pulls pcAnywhere, man-in-the-middle attacks are possible
Source code theft from Symantec?s systems in 2006 places pcAnywhere software at risk of being attacked. Company says software is bundled with many of its products. <img alt="Symantec pulls pcAnywhere, man-in-the-middle attacks are possible, Blog, possible, Attacks, Symantec, pulls, pcAnywhere, maninthemiddle"height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechBiz &partnerID=167&key=segment”/> View full post on…
Symantec pulls pcAnywhere, man-in-the-middle attacks are possible
Source code theft from Symantec?s systems in 2006 places pcAnywhere software at risk of being attacked. Company says software is bundled with many of its products. <img alt="Symantec pulls pcAnywhere, man-in-the-middle attacks are possible, Blog, Symantec, pulls, pcAnywhere"height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechBiz &partnerID=167&key=segment”/> View full post on SearchSecurity: Security Wire…
Gang pulls off $5.2 million bank job via remote access
Criminals in South Africa have carried off a cunning remote access heist that has left one of the country’s banks nursing a stunning $5.2 million (42 million Rand) loss. After opening accounts at the South African Postbank months in advance, between 1 and 3 January the gang remotely accessed the…
Google pulls dozens of apps from Android Market for SMS scams (Digital Trends)
Google’s popular Android operating system appears to still be the mobile operating system of choice for fraudsters and malware authors: Google has just pulled dozens of apps from the Android Market because they trick European users into paying premium SMS charges. According to the mobile security firm Lookout, Google has…
U.S. Pulls Plug On International $14M Malware Ring
Six alleged hackers, plus a seventh still at large, have been indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice in New York in a wide-ranging malware scam that netted as much as $14 million in ill-gotten fees and may have involved a staggering 4 million computers in 100 countries over four…
U.S. Pulls Plug On International $14M Malware Ring (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor – Six alleged hackers, plus a seventh still at large, have been indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice in New York in a wide-ranging malware scam that netted as much as $14 million in ill-gotten fees and may have involved a staggering 4 million computers in 100 countries…
