ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet

Auction site confirms that hackers compromised an eBay database containing encrypted eBay passwords and other non-financial information.

Das Anonymisierungsnetzwerk TOR wird inzwischen auch durch Online-Kriminelle gern genutzt. Kaspersky Lab kennt mittlerweile etwa 900 Dienste der Online-Kriminalität, die sich im so genannten Darknet verstecken. Dazu zählen etwa Kommando-Server für Bot-Netze.

Mt. Gox, once the world’s largest bitcoin exchange, has gone offline, apparently after losing hundreds of millions of dollars due to a years-long hacking effort that went unnoticed by the company.

More than 11,000 patients and some employees of Coloradobased kidney care company DaVita are being alerted after an unencrypted laptop containing their personal data was stolen from a staffers vehicle.

How many victims? 

Approximately 11,500.

What type of personal information? 

Names, clinical diagnoses, insurance carrier names, claims payment data and dialysis treatment information.

About 375 patients had their Social Security numbers stored on the laptop.

Threats like these are opportunistic, and as with many modern threats your best protection against them is to employ basic online street smarts:

Street smart rule #1 is don’t blithely open attachments in emails you weren’t expecting, even if they appear to come from someone you know.

University of Surrey researcher, Thomas P Diakos, created an inexpensive receiver, small enough to fit into a backpack, using the above items along with other off-the-shelf electronics.

Using this equipment he was able to eavesdrop on cards at distances of 20 - 90 centimetres, maintaining good reception at up to 45cm - despite the fact that one of the main security features of contactless cards is a requirement not to transfer payment data in excess of 10cm from a reader.

Rapid7's Metasploit is the latest high profile website to fall foul of a pro-Palestinian group of hackers, who hijacked its DNS records.

And it seems the hackers used an old-fashioned fax message to commit their crime.

Hackers have broken into the computer systems of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to steal sensitive personally information for about 14,000 past and current employees.

A recent RAND Corporation report on the black market for hacks, cracks, data theft, botnets, and zero days tells us your hacked Amex Black fetches a decent price, but only if you're not an American.

As RAND explained, the black market for cybercrime, once a "varied landscape of discrete, ad hoc networks of individuals motivated by ego and notoriety, has now become a burgeoning powerhouse of highly organized groups, often connected with traditional crime groups (e.g., drug cartels, mafias, terrorist cells) and nation-states."

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In the wake of the MtGox debacle, two more Bitcoin companies have been struck hard by hackers – forcing one of them to go out of business entirely.

Silk Road 2 moderator Defcon reported in a forum post that hackers have used atransaction malleability exploit to hack the marketplace.

The hackers stole over 88,0004474.26 bitcoins worth $2,747,000, emptying the site’s escrow account.

Earlier this year, researchers from Kaspersky became aware of the existence of a new banking Trojan advertised as being capable of targeting the custo...

Hundreds of websites from the United Kingdom and Hungary have been hacked and defaced by a Syrian hacker that uses the online moniker RBG HomS. The h...

Cyberkriminelle haben die Stammdaten von zwei Millionen Kunden von Vodafone Deutschland gestohlen.

How to fight cybercrime, a White Paper submitted by McAfee at IThound.com