For starters, happy holidays to everyone.
So, whether you did or didn’t know about it, Sony BMG installed rootkits on a lot of their music CD’s a couple of years ago “to help prevent piracy”. When these rootkits were first publicized by a man named Mark Russinovich, the message spread like wildfire and Sony […]

It looks like a thief’s stock brokerage account has been frozen by the Securities and Exchange Commission due to gaining unauthorized access to other people’s account to drive stock prices up. While the russian’s account made more than $300,000, it is now all frozen. Looks like someone is going to be on Santa’s […]

Fired? Wow… this Todd guy sure got off easy with this one. It must be the Christmas season, because he definitely could have had way more troublesome consequences. I have to say this is pretty amusing. The guy hired hackers to alter his grades and in return, the hackers revealed Todd’s […]

For many, people celebrate Christmas and the holiday season by getting together with family, sharing gifts and stories, and just catching up on what has happened to one another over the past year. This tradition doesn’t really bode well with some hackers though. Some hackers might be starting a tradition where they attack […]

Well, here is yet another story about someone breaking into a university database and acquiring a couple hundred thousand records. This is a little different though, instead of the “computer security expert” (with misguided ethics…) hacking into the records of current USC students and alumni, this person was actually getting the records of would-be […]

It should be obvious that identity thieves and scam artists are going to put in the time when it comes to the Christmas season, since the pickings are so much better. With that in mind, the people behind the Opera browser have jumped into the fight to protect users from phishing scams by offering […]

Credit Card (including PIN number) - $500
Zero day exploits - upwards to $50,000
Knowing that there will always be someone out there who is willing to pay that kind of money for illegal stuff….priceless.
Not that this stuff hasn’t happened before, but the release of Vista sure has been making this stuff a lot more public. […]

Honestly, I don’t think there is any “may” about it. I think that given a certain amount of time and enough incentive (or threats, in the mob’s case), hackers will eventually join forces with them. Organized crime online? Hmm… sounds like history will once again be repeating itself…
The mob is expected to […]

Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later. Skype, an IM service, has had a vulnerability exploited through a trojan. To be brief, if you use Skype and don’t want to get this Trojan, make sure you don’t download anything from it, no matter how appealing it sounds.

WebSense on Monday identified a […]

Talk about something to be concerned about. The group/person/computer/anonymous entity called ‘Rock Phish’ is known for sending out about fifty per cent of all phishing emails on a daily basis. Knowing that fact as well as the large amount of people who are ignorant to phishing scams, could you imagine how many identities […]