Anonymous has struck the websites of two anti-piracy organisations, a day after Finnish ISP Elisa blocked access to The Pirate Bay search engine in response to an injunction requested by one of the organisations. The Finnish site for the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) and the website for…
German police GPS hacked after Trojan backfires
Last July’s shutdown of a GPS vehicle tracking system used by German police to monitor suspects has apparently been traced back to an officer’s incompetent attempt to monitor his daughter’s Internet use with a spy Trojan. As reported by German magazine Der Spiegel, the policeman from Frankfurt am Main planted…
Stratfor keeps website offline after hack
Security intelligence firm Stratfor has warned subscribers that its website could stay offline for a week or more…. View full post on firefox hacker – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Police arrest ATM skimmer after $1.5 million stolen
US authorities have arrested a man accused of being a lynchpin in a major ATM skimming fraud that stole at least $1.5 million (£970,000) from 40 HSBC cash machines in and around New York. The US Attorney’s Office published charges against Romanian national Laurentiu Bulat who it alleges acted during…
Israel vows to go after Saudi teen hacker
(CBS/AP) A hacker claiming to be a 19-year-old Saudi posted thousands of Israeli credit card numbers and other personal data online earlier this week the hacker’s second politically motivated attack this year. In response, the Israeli government likened the action to “a breach of sovereignty comparable to a terrorist…
Facebook takes action after computer worm siphons 45,000 login details
London, Jan 7 (ANI): Social networking giant Facebook has acted to stop the spread of a new computer worm that has stolen over 45,000 login credentials. According to computer security experts, the Ramnit worm has been spreading since April 2010, but was only recently adapted to target Facebook details. A…
Facebook takes action after computer worm siphons 45,000 login details
London, Jan 7 (ANI): Social networking giant Facebook has acted to stop the spread of a new computer worm that has stolen over 45,000 login credentials. According to computer security experts, the Ramnit worm has been spreading since April 2010, but was only recently adapted to target Facebook details. A…
2 Calf. gunmen arrested after SWAT standoff
By PoliceOne Staff SAN FRANCISCO — Police arrested two men after a nearly two-hour long search for two violators who had been firing rifles from the top of a building in an area of the City known as SoMa — for “South of Market” — near the off ramp to…
Man Gets New Trial After Court Records Erased
advertisement A man sentenced to life in prison for murder will get another trial because a courtroom stenographer accidentally erased the records of his previous trial, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported. Randy Chaviano, 26, was convicted of second-degree murder and armed drug dealing in 2009. An appeals court threw…
Murder retrial ordered after court records destroyed by virus
A convicted murderer has been granted a retrial after a stenographer’s backup record of his trial was apparently destroyed by a malware infection. The possibly unique sequence of events came to a head when Randy Chaviano, 26, appealed against his 2009 conviction in a Florida court for shooting Charles Acosta…