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Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Today, US prosecutors have brought charges against 3 hackers for their involvement with a computer virus which has been used to infect computers and steal banking information from more than one million machines. According to Bloomberg, prosecutors in the office of Attorney Preet Bharara in Manhattan brought charges against Mihai Ionut Paunescu, Deniss Calovskis and Nikita Kuzmin. These three men have been accused of creating...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Not even 24 hours after Oracle released a fix for the latest in a string of Java exploits, cyber criminals are already reportedly selling a completely different zero-day Java exploit. The most recent fix for Java 7 was meant to patch a security hole that had become so well known, exploits were being packaged and sold in cybercrime “toolkits.” According to Krebs on Security, one cyber criminal in the “Underweb” is selling...
Just like advancements in medicine and technology, the world of cyber threats never stops evolving. Global Digital Forensics has spent the last two decades evolving with it and offers penetration testing and cyber threat assessments newly updated for 2013 to help hospitals, banks, or any other type of businesses relying on digital information, to not only thwart as many threats as possible, but also help reduce the costly aftermath should a cyber-attack still manage to find its mark. New...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Iran, which has been targeted in several hacks over the past few years, has been busy battling yet another Stuxnet cyber attack over the past few months, according to the NY Times. This time, an Iranian official is saying foreign enemy hackers have been targeting the southern coast of Iran, home to many important industries, as well as the Culture Ministry Information Center. Though various accounts of these attacks have not given...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Samsung Smart TVs connected to the Internet are vulnerable to exploits by remote hackers, security researchers said on Wednesday. Luigi Auriemma, a researcher with Malta-based security firm ReVuln, uncovered the vulnerability, which exists in most Samsung models but particularly the Samsung TV LED 3D. The flaw makes it easy for hackers to locate the television’s IP address on the Internet, which can then be used to remotely...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Yet another group of “Hacktivists” have seen it fit to attack some government organizations and leak personal data in the name of Freedom of Information. Team GhostShell, a band of hackers with loose ties to Anonymous, announced yesterday that they have stolen accounts from several government agencies and organizations. As proof, these hackers have also posted information from 1.6 million accounts online, making the people...
PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Cybercrime is on the rise, the holidays being no exception. In fact, this holiday season may prove to be the biggest ever for cybertheft. Hackers observe no holidays, instead using them as yet another theme to entice and trick computer users into letting them into their networks. Compounding this, many retailers and other businesses conduct more transactions and process more credit cards during the holidays than at any other time of the...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online A 24-year old developer for Mozilla software named Cody Brocious took the stage during July’s Black Hat security conference in Vegas and explained how easy it was to break into some hotel doors. As these things often happen, Brocious’ hack was placed online where it was later tested and subsequently improved by other hackers. This week, Forbes is calling attention to this hack once more, telling the story of a woman who...
CLEARWATER, Fla., Nov. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- In August 2012, yet not reported until October, one malicious email opened by an employee of the South Carolina Department of Revue caused a massive cyberattack - theft of 3.8 million tax returns, Social Security numbers of 1.9 million people, access to data on 699,900 business tax returns and 3.3 million bank accounts, according to NBC.com. KnowBe4, an internet security awareness training firm, says that attacks like this could be...
The following article has been updated with new information from Scott Gerlach, Director of Information Security Operations at Go Daddy. redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Users who have their websites hosted by Go Daddy are being infected with ransomware following a recent cyberattack on the company's DNS records, online security experts are reporting. According to Fraser Howard, a Principal Virus Researcher with SophosLabs, the hackers behind these attacks are...
