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 Two Romanian Nationals Plead Guilty to Hacking into and Stealing Payment Card Data from Hundreds of Point of Sale Systems

Two hackers who took part in a hacking scheme that involved more than 146,000 compromised cards leading to more than $10 million in losses, pleaded guilty today in a New Hampshire court. One agreed to spend seven years behind bars, while the other agreed to spend 21-months locked up.

Read more:

http://www.securityweek.com/point-sale-hacker-gets-seven-years-prison

Ein großer Ausfall beim US-Webhoster GoDaddy sorgte am Montag dafür, dass unzählige Websites nicht mehr erreichbar waren. Hinter dem Ausfall könnte ein Hacker-Angriff stecken.

Mehr erfahren:

http://www.pcwelt.de/news/Hackerangriff-Massiver-Website-Ausfaelle-nach-Angriff-auf-GoDaddy-6571561.html?r=361529525305662&lid=195536

The recently unearthed website of a service specializing in selling access to compromised email and social networking accounts of Russian and Ukrainian users offers a fascinating glimpse into just how much one such account is worth to spammers.

Wannabe spammers and social engineers can choose to buy accounts by the service, and should be ready to pay 190 rubles ($5.9) for 100 compromised Vkontakte accounts belonging mostly to Russian users, or 180 rubles ($5.6) for the same number belonging to mostly Ukrainian users.

Facebook accounts are somewhat cheaper - 500 for 200 rubles ($6.2), and the same number of compromised Twitter account can be had for 250 rubles ($7.7).

Read more to find out how others are earning money with your stolen data, you should:

http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=13275

A Seattle hacking triumvirate has received a collective quarter-century behind bars.

With a combination of wardriving and malware implantation, they made off with $3m plundered from company acco...

The three men, Joshuah Allen Witt, 35, John Earl Griffin, 36, and Brad Eugene Lowe, 39, have all now been given stiff prison terms. Lowe picked up the lightest sentence, ===> with six-and-a-half years, whilst Witt and Griffin were sent down for nearly eight years each.

There are two lessons to be learned here.

The first lesson is to make sure you get your WiFi security right - at work and at home. We've written up some simple guidelines before to help you do the right thing.

To summarise, here are three things which do not provide WiFi security. Two of them provide a touch of safety against inadvertent connections, but none of these protect you against wardrivers:

- WEP encryption. The security system in WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) is flawed and can easily and automatically be cracked. A wardriver will bypass WEP in 60 seconds - and that includes the time taken to park outside your office and boot up his laptop. Use WPA instead.

- MAC address filtering. MAC (Media Access Control) addresses aren't secret. WiFi networks broadcast the MAC addresses of all currently-connected devices, so a wardriver already has a list of addresses he can use.

- SSID hiding. The SSID (Service Set identifier) is your network name. Hiding it merely means your network doesn't openly advertise itself for use. But it isn't a secret - the SSID appears in other network traffic anyway, so the wardriver knows what it is.

The second lesson is to be doubly vigilant after a physical break-in. Don't just look for what's missing, but what might have been left behind.

Read more, a MUST for WiFi protection:

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/07/16/seattle-cybercrime-trio-sentenced-for-3m-hacking-spree-via-wifi-and-malware/

18/09/2012
The EU faces massive proliferation of cyber-crime yet police are often unable to trace the criminals as they are both quick and anonymous, Troels Oerting, the head of the new European Cybercrime Centre, told MEPs at a hearing in Brussels this week, adding that “there is no absolute security, it is a myth”.

He believes the solution is to improve legal norms and public awareness, and to make sure that activities illegal in the “offline world” are also illegal in the online one. Some EU countries, however, are unable to cope with the high number of cases and don’t have the budget to investigate the cyber-crimes, especially when they are cross-border. "I hate to say it, but when we invite [people] to meetings about Europol investigations, half of the most critical countries don't come. They haven't got the money for travelling," Oerting admitted.

Read more:

http://www.securitydefenceagenda.org/Contentnavigation/Library/Libraryoverview/tabid/1299/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/3237/categoryId/64/EU-lags-behind-in-cybercrime.aspx?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

The Norton Cybercrime Report is out for 2012!

Cybercrime continues to have far-reaching effects and is increasingly a problem on mobile devices and in our social networks (where we seem to be less vigilant).

After surveying more than 13,000 consumers in 24 countries, the researchers found that the numbers of online adults increased by 20 percent from last year, and that cybercrime impacted just under ½ of them in the previous 12 months. The total direct consumer cost was calculated to be $110 billion, slightly down from last year’s $114 billion (USD), with the average cost per victim down approximately 20 percent. The reason the overall cost remains so high is that the pool of victimized online adults grew more rapidly - in other words, less money, but from more victims.

The nature of the crimes is shifting towards the social networks we love and the mobile devices we use constantly. Consumers seem to have figured out the basics of protecting themselves on their desktop and laptop computers and report using basic security measures and caution to stay safe. It would seem they’ve really gotten the message about things like being careful what you click on and deleting suspicious emails without opening them. Programs, like the October Cyber Security Awareness Month and the NCSA’s “Stop.Think.Connect.” campaign, are likely having a positive impact on consumer behavior!

Read more:

http://community.norton.com/t5/Ask-Marian/Cybercrime-is-a-Global-Problem-Increasingly-Social-and-Mobile/ba-p/796538

Cybercrime costs the world more than the global black market in marijuana, cocaine and heroin combined, a new infographic reveals.

The global black market pertaining to those drugs amounts to US$288bn, whereas globally, cybercrime costs US$388bn annually in lost time and finances.

Read more:

http://www.siliconrepublic.com/strategy/item/28519-beware-of-cybercrime-cybe