http://news.softpedia.com Softpedia News - Security Softpedia News en-us 2001 - 2012 Softpedia. All rights reserved. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:45:30 GMT Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:45:30 GMT News http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 10 http://news.softpedia.com/base_img/softpedia_logo.gif http://news.softpedia.com http://news.softpedia.com/news/Dutch-KPN-Hacked-Email-Services-Suspended-252823.shtml KPN, a Dutch Internet service provider that has around two million account holders, discovered a data breach that affected their systems in January, but decided to keep everything a secret during the time in which the incident was being investigated.

Anonymous hackers took credit for the breach and even published a Pastebin file that contai... (read more)]]> Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:11:00 GMT Softpedia News - Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/Dutch-KPN-Hacked-Email-Services-Suspended-252823.shtml Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/Dutch-KPN-Hacked-Email-Services-Suspended-252823.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Anonymous-Hacks-Turkey-s-Telecoms-Authority-252792.shtml Turkey’s Information Technologies and Communications Authority was breached by Anonymous hackers as part of Operation Digiturk. The operation was launched after the one of the country’s satellite television providers, Digiturk, blocked a couple of blogs that were hosting copyrighted materials.

According to hackt1v1sm, Anonymou... (read more)]]> Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:33:00 GMT Softpedia News - Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/Anonymous-Hacks-Turkey-s-Telecoms-Authority-252792.shtml Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/Anonymous-Hacks-Turkey-s-Telecoms-Authority-252792.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-Privacy-and-Security-Risks-Posed-by-Online-Dating-Services-252770.shtml This time of year many users may be tempted to turn to online dating sites to find someone to spend Valentine’s Day with. Unfortunately, many internauts are not aware of the privacy and security risks some of these websites expose them to.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) made a list of factors that should... (read more)]]> Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:56:00 GMT Softpedia News - Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-Privacy-and-Security-Risks-Posed-by-Online-Dating-Services-252770.shtml Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-Privacy-and-Security-Risks-Posed-by-Online-Dating-Services-252770.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Horde-FTP-Server-Hacked-Files-Maliciously-Altered-252708.shtml The developers of the popular open source Webmail solution Horde identified a number of manipulated files on one of their FTP servers. They concluded that the server has been breached, the files stored on it being altered to allow unauthenticated remote PHP execution.

“We have immediately taken down all distribution servers to... (read more)]]> Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:53:00 GMT Softpedia News - Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/Horde-FTP-Server-Hacked-Files-Maliciously-Altered-252708.shtml Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/Horde-FTP-Server-Hacked-Files-Maliciously-Altered-252708.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Metropolitan-Police-Beware-of-Law-Enforcement-Viruses-252688.shtml The UK Metropolitan Police’s Central e-crime Unit (PCeU) is warning Internet users about the massive malware campaign that locks computers allegedly in the name of the law enforcement agency.

Microsoft’s Malware Protection Center informed us a while back that the campaign is targeting users from all across Europe, lo... (read more)]]> Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:02:00 GMT Softpedia News - Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/Metropolitan-Police-Beware-of-Law-Enforcement-Viruses-252688.shtml Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/Metropolitan-Police-Beware-of-Law-Enforcement-Viruses-252688.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Owner-of-Hacked-Site-Speaks-About-the-Consequences-Exclusive-252418.shtml Whenever a hacker collective defaces hundreds and maybe even thousands of websites all at once, few ever think about the owners of the commercial websites and the trouble they go through to deal with the effects of the hack.

We’ve contacted one of these victims and it turns out that it’s not an easy task to g... (read more)]]> Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:51:01 GMT Softpedia News - Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/Owner-of-Hacked-Site-Speaks-About-the-Consequences-Exclusive-252418.shtml Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/Owner-of-Hacked-Site-Speaks-About-the-Consequences-Exclusive-252418.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/TicketWeb-Hacked-Customers-Receive-Phishing-Emails-252516.shtml A group of hackers managed to gain access to TicketWeb’s direct email marketing systems and utilized it to send phishing emails to unsuspecting customers. The ticket distribution company is alerting users to be on the lookout for suspicious emails.

According to The Inquirer, TicketWeb clients began receiving emails that urged... (read more)]]> Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:41:00 GMT Softpedia News - Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/TicketWeb-Hacked-Customers-Receive-Phishing-Emails-252516.shtml Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/TicketWeb-Hacked-Customers-Receive-Phishing-Emails-252516.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Whitney-Huston-Death-Video-Perfect-Topic-for-Scams-252431.shtml Just like in all the other cases where an important public figure passes to the afterlife, it’s no different with the death of the famous singer Whitney Houston. Cybercriminals already started leveraging her death to spread survey scams that fill their pockets with tons of money from affiliate marketing sites.

Trend Micro res... (read more)]]> Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:22:00 GMT Softpedia News - Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/Whitney-Huston-Death-Video-Perfect-Topic-for-Scams-252431.shtml Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/Whitney-Huston-Death-Video-Perfect-Topic-for-Scams-252431.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Daemon-Tools-Collects-Image-File-Details-Even-Without-Permission-252393.shtml There are very few people in the world that haven’t used at least once Daemon Tools to mount image files when playing games or installing applications, but few know that the latest variant of the software comes with a service that monitors the user’s activity and records information such as the .iso file’s detail... (read more)]]> Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:16:00 GMT Softpedia News - Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/Daemon-Tools-Collects-Image-File-Details-Even-Without-Permission-252393.shtml Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/Daemon-Tools-Collects-Image-File-Details-Even-Without-Permission-252393.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Sheffield-MP-Demands-Apology-After-Leaked-FBI-Conference-Call-252369.shtml The conference call between the FBI and the UK Metropolitan Police, leaked by Anonymous a few days ago, didn’t cause concern only among law enforcement agencies. Now, a Sheffield Member of Parliament (MP), David Blunkett, demands an apology after the British agents mocked Sheffield in the call with their US counterparts.
... (read more)]]> Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:32:00 GMT Softpedia News - Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/Sheffield-MP-Demands-Apology-After-Leaked-FBI-Conference-Call-252369.shtml Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/Sheffield-MP-Demands-Apology-After-Leaked-FBI-Conference-Call-252369.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Chinese-Evil-Shadow-Hackers-Breach-and-Deface-Microsoft-Store-252338.shtml The Chinese Evil Shadow hacker collective managed to breach the official Indian Microsoft Store (microsoftstore.co.in), defacing it and leaking data from their databases.

On the team’s blog the hackers reveal their intentions for targeting a Microsoft website.

First of all, they say that they did it ... (read more)]]> Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:25:00 GMT Softpedia News - Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/Chinese-Evil-Shadow-Hackers-Breach-and-Deface-Microsoft-Store-252338.shtml Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/Chinese-Evil-Shadow-Hackers-Breach-and-Deface-Microsoft-Store-252338.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Government-Sites-Hacked-in-Response-to-India-and-Bangladesh-Cyberwar-252310.shtml If up until now they only found vulnerabilities in major websites with the purpose of letting administrators know that their assets may be exposed to cybercriminal operations, members of TeamHav0k revealed their activist side and intervened in the cyber battle taking place between Indian and Bangladeshi hacktivists.
read more)]]> Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:28:00 GMT Softpedia News - Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/Government-Sites-Hacked-in-Response-to-India-and-Bangladesh-Cyberwar-252310.shtml Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/Government-Sites-Hacked-in-Response-to-India-and-Bangladesh-Cyberwar-252310.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/6Gb-NASA-Database-Leaked-Hackers-Notify-Agency-252290.shtml Members of two hacker collectives, Team r00tw0rm and Team inj3ct0r, identified an SQL injection vulnerability on one of the subdomains owned by NASA and hosted on the domain nasa.gov. By leveraging the security hole, the hackers obtained a 6 gigabyte database, but refused to disclose the name of the flawed subdomain to give the agency time to patch... (read more)]]> Mon, 13 Feb 2012 07:53:00 GMT Softpedia News - Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/6Gb-NASA-Database-Leaked-Hackers-Notify-Agency-252290.shtml Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/6Gb-NASA-Database-Leaked-Hackers-Notify-Agency-252290.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Softpedia-Exclusive-Interview-Radware-Expert-on-DDOS-Attacks-252191.shtml Distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks are a major concern these days for both companies and major websites, especially if they know they may be targeted by hacktivists. Security solutions provider Radware published a great report on the subject of DDOS attacks, busting some interesting myths and clarifying some important issue... (read more)]]> Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:21:02 GMT Softpedia News - Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/Softpedia-Exclusive-Interview-Radware-Expert-on-DDOS-Attacks-252191.shtml Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/Softpedia-Exclusive-Interview-Radware-Expert-on-DDOS-Attacks-252191.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hackers-Around-the-World-No-Flaws-Escape-This-Georgian-s-Longrifle0x-252180.shtml This week’s episode of Hackers around the world features the first white hat hacker to take part in our series. Up until now, we’ve only talked to black hats and gray hats, so we’ve decided to take a look at what a white hat has to say about vulnerabilities, hacktivist movements and life in general.

Uc... (read more)]]> Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:51:02 GMT Softpedia News - Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hackers-Around-the-World-No-Flaws-Escape-This-Georgian-s-Longrifle0x-252180.shtml Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hackers-Around-the-World-No-Flaws-Escape-This-Georgian-s-Longrifle0x-252180.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/XSS-Found-in-US-Nigerian-and-Pakistani-Government-Sites-Exclusive-252238.shtml As part of Operation Return, TeamHav0k hackers revisited some of the vulnerabilities they found last year in government and university websites. Fortunately, the university websites appreciated the findings and patched up all the flaws, but government website administrators weren’t so eager to address the security holes.read more)]]> Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:50:00 GMT Softpedia News - Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/XSS-Found-in-US-Nigerian-and-Pakistani-Government-Sites-Exclusive-252238.shtml Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/XSS-Found-in-US-Nigerian-and-Pakistani-Government-Sites-Exclusive-252238.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/ACTA-Protests-a-Success-Germany-Takes-a-Step-Back-252225.shtml The global protests against the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Act (ACTA) seem to have left their mark on state leaders, the latest country to pull back being Germany.

While they didn’t clearly state that they were against ACTA, German officials decided to postpone their decision on whether or not the agreement would... (read more)]]> Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:13:00 GMT Softpedia News - Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/ACTA-Protests-a-Success-Germany-Takes-a-Step-Back-252225.shtml Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/ACTA-Protests-a-Success-Germany-Takes-a-Step-Back-252225.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Anonymous-DDOS-Attacks-Explained-by-Expert-Exclusive-252010.shtml The Megaupload closure coincided with the start of what was later known as the largest distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack in history, with reports saying that there were around 5,000 individuals, both hackers and simple activists, sending large amounts of packets at sites they considered guilty for the file-sharing service’s te... (read more)]]> Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:41:01 GMT Softpedia News - Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/Anonymous-DDOS-Attacks-Explained-by-Expert-Exclusive-252010.shtml Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/Anonymous-DDOS-Attacks-Explained-by-Expert-Exclusive-252010.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Facebook-and-Twitter-Credentials-Sold-in-Factory-Outlets-252056.shtml Malware that’s designed mainly to steal banking information, such as ZeuS or SpyEye, collects other pieces of sensitive information it comes across on a computer, including social media account login credentials. To make sure this secondary loot doesn’t go to waste, cybercriminals opened what they call “Factory Outlets&r... (read more)]]> Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:40:00 GMT Softpedia News - Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/Facebook-and-Twitter-Credentials-Sold-in-Factory-Outlets-252056.shtml Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/Facebook-and-Twitter-Credentials-Sold-in-Factory-Outlets-252056.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hackers-Breach-Alabama-and-Texas-Law-Enforcement-Sites-251967.shtml As part of their operations against law enforcement agencies, Anonymous hackers breached the sites of the Alabama Department of Public Safety, the Texas Department of Public Safety, and the Mobile Police Department, also based in Alabama, leaking information from their databases.

DataBreaches sums up the hacks nicely, revealing... (read more)]]> Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:58:00 GMT Softpedia News - Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hackers-Breach-Alabama-and-Texas-Law-Enforcement-Sites-251967.shtml Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hackers-Breach-Alabama-and-Texas-Law-Enforcement-Sites-251967.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/MyBB-1-6-6-Security-Release-Fixes-15-Vulnerabilities-251925.shtml The open-source forum script’s developers released the MyBB 1.6.6 security update for the 1.6 series to address one major and fourteen low risk issues that may have exposed their customers.

A non-critical security hole that was resolved refers to the ability to import a non-CSS stylesheet. Prior to this update the theme fil... (read more)]]> Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:35:00 GMT Softpedia News - Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/MyBB-1-6-6-Security-Release-Fixes-15-Vulnerabilities-251925.shtml Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/MyBB-1-6-6-Security-Release-Fixes-15-Vulnerabilities-251925.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Citadel-Trojan-May-Be-Improved-with-Mini-Antivirus-251908.shtml Security researcher and blogger Brian Krebs has been closely monitoring the Citadel Trojan’s development process and his latest findings reveal that a tight community was formed between the authors and the customers, making the project evolve rapidly.

In practice, the results were observed by Seculert researchers that identif... (read more)]]> Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:03:00 GMT Softpedia News - Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/Citadel-Trojan-May-Be-Improved-with-Mini-Antivirus-251908.shtml Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/Citadel-Trojan-May-Be-Improved-with-Mini-Antivirus-251908.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Researcher-Video-Calling-Easily-Accessible-on-Locked-iPhone-4-251808.shtml Ade Barkah, the researcher that not long ago proved that the media album of a locked iPhone 4 could be easily accessed by leveraging a simple bug, returns with new findings to show that not only the device’s address book is easily accessible, but that the video call feature is as well.

Without jailbreak or any othe... (read more)]]> Thu, 9 Feb 2012 20:41:02 GMT Softpedia News - Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/Researcher-Video-Calling-Easily-Accessible-on-Locked-iPhone-4-251808.shtml Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/Researcher-Video-Calling-Easily-Accessible-on-Locked-iPhone-4-251808.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/UN-Website-Unpatched-Hacked-Again-by-TeaMp0isoN-Exclusive-251849.shtml Since they failed to patch up the vulnerabilities that allowed hackers to gain access and leak data from their servers the first time, members of TeaMp0isoN revisited the United Nations Development Programme website and leaked another round of data. Even more, they found a series of vulnerabilities present in the organization’s mai... (read more)]]> Thu, 9 Feb 2012 15:43:00 GMT Softpedia News - Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/UN-Website-Unpatched-Hacked-Again-by-TeaMp0isoN-Exclusive-251849.shtml Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/UN-Website-Unpatched-Hacked-Again-by-TeaMp0isoN-Exclusive-251849.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Chrome-17-Comes-with-20-Security-Fixes-251767.shtml The latest variant of the popular web browser, Chrome 17, not only brings new malicious file scanning technologies and page preloading features, but also patches some major security vulnerabilities found by researchers as part of Google’s bug bounty program.

A number of 20 security holes were identified in the previous versions and patch... (read more)]]> Thu, 9 Feb 2012 13:15:00 GMT Softpedia News - Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/Chrome-17-Comes-with-20-Security-Fixes-251767.shtml Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/Chrome-17-Comes-with-20-Security-Fixes-251767.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/VIPRE-Report-Reveals-Wide-Range-of-Cybercrime-Targets-251749.shtml GFI’s VIPRE Report for January 2012 reveals that cybercriminals took advantage of every single hot topic to launch their malicious campaigns, targeting gamers, small businesses and even government organizations.

Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer 2012 and the Halo video game series represented great opportunities that all... (read more)]]> Thu, 9 Feb 2012 12:26:00 GMT Softpedia News - Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/VIPRE-Report-Reveals-Wide-Range-of-Cybercrime-Targets-251749.shtml Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/VIPRE-Report-Reveals-Wide-Range-of-Cybercrime-Targets-251749.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Video-Google-Wallet-Contains-PIN-Exposure-Flaw-251740.shtml After viaForensics identified a number of vulnerabilities in Google Wallet that may be utilized by cybercriminals to launch social engineering attacks with the purpose of obtaining sensitive information, zvelo researchers found an even bigger issue that exposes the software’s PIN to brute-force attacks.

Not only did the experts c... (read more)]]> Thu, 9 Feb 2012 11:48:00 GMT Softpedia News - Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/Video-Google-Wallet-Contains-PIN-Exposure-Flaw-251740.shtml Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/Video-Google-Wallet-Contains-PIN-Exposure-Flaw-251740.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Security-Experts-Threatened-by-Banks-After-Discovering-Vulnerabilities-251716.shtml The systems used by financial institutions often turn out to be unsecure, exposing their customers to malicious operations. However, a security expert claims that instead of addressing these issues, many banks turn to threaten the ones that found the flaws to remove proof-of-concept (PoC) papers and videos from public locati... (read more)]]> Thu, 9 Feb 2012 10:50:00 GMT Softpedia News - Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/Security-Experts-Threatened-by-Banks-After-Discovering-Vulnerabilities-251716.shtml Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/Security-Experts-Threatened-by-Banks-After-Discovering-Vulnerabilities-251716.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Bradesco-Phishing-Emails-Target-Internet-Banking-Accounts-251680.shtml After Anonymous hacktivists took down the official Brazilian websites of the Bradesco bank, a series of phishing emails were spotted in inboxes. It’s uncertain if the incidents are related, but users are advised to be on the lookout for any suspicious emails that seem to come from the bank.

Originating from the email a... (read more)]]> Thu, 9 Feb 2012 09:29:00 GMT Softpedia News - Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/Bradesco-Phishing-Emails-Target-Internet-Banking-Accounts-251680.shtml Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/Bradesco-Phishing-Emails-Target-Internet-Banking-Accounts-251680.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/TeaMp0isoN-Leaks-Syrian-Military-Bank-Accounts-251637.shtml The famous hacktivist collective TeaMp0isoN continues to hack websites that belong to governments they consider corrupt and violent. Their latest hack’s purpose was to support the Syrian people in their fight against the local government and, as a result, they leaked tons of banking information.

“Last few days I was looking... (read more)]]> Thu, 9 Feb 2012 08:04:00 GMT Softpedia News - Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/TeaMp0isoN-Leaks-Syrian-Military-Bank-Accounts-251637.shtml Security http://news.softpedia.com/news/TeaMp0isoN-Leaks-Syrian-Military-Bank-Accounts-251637.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs)