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Your Website Comes From 1,000 Places. Here's How to Map Them
www.wired.com
Over the past decade, the business of loading a webpage has become devilishly complicated. Websites are now really a cocktail of services delivered by advertising networks, authentication services, security services, and content delivery partners. But DeepField — a startup based in Ann Arbor, Michigan with an impressive internet pedigree...
Kaspersky co-founder resorts to scaremongering over Apple’s iOS antivirus ban
thenextweb.com
Kaspersky co-founder Eugene Kaspersky, has launched a bizarre attack on Apple over its ban on iOS antivirus app, predicting that it will ultimately “mean disaster” for the company as malware developers target the mobile operating system. Speaking with The Register in Sydney, Kaspersky described his disappointment that Apple wouldn’t let the...
McAfee discovers $78 million worth of sophisticated cyber attacks against banking systems
www.theverge.com
Security firms McAfee and Guardian Analytics have published a joint fraud report, dubbed Operation High Roller, on new methods of siphoning money from banking systems. Using a series of highly sophisticated cyber attacks to target high balance accounts, criminals have been able to successfully bypass physical "chip and pin"...
Skype makes chats and user data more available to police
www.washingtonpost.com
Skype, the online phone service long favored by political dissidents, criminals and others eager to communicate beyond the reach of governments, has expanded its cooperation with law enforcement authorities to make online chats and other user information available to police, said industry and government officials familiar with the changes. Read...
110,000 PC-strong Kelihos botnet sidelined
news.cnet.com
Researchers use specially crafted code to direct infected computers to their servers instead of servers run by the criminals who have been using the botnet to distribute spam. [Read more]...
That Was Fast: Criminals Exploit LinkedIn Breach For Phishing Attacks
bits.blogs.nytimes.com
On Tuesday, security researchers discovered that a LinkedIn mobile app was leaking sensitive calendar information back to LinkedIn's Web servers. On Wednesday, a breach highlighted just how vulnerable those Web servers were....
A manhunt on Facebook leads to 8 arrests in Germany
thenextweb.com
Imagine a murder in your neighbourhood. The police release a photofit. They put it on Facebook. You see it and recognise the murderer: it’s you. That’s what citizens of the German city of Hanover are afraid of. In Hanover, local police have implemented a pilot scheme called “Fahndung via Facebook” – manhunt...
Criminals Target Megaupload Users With Fake Settlement Demands
torrentfreak.com
Schemes which require alleged copyright infringers to pay cash settlements to make lawsuits disappear are nothing new. Those describing these revenue-generating projects often do so using the word ‘scam’, but while the schemes are questionable, in many cases the companies carrying them out are genuine rightsholders supported by real lawfirms....
Two Security Firms Say They Verified LinkedIn Breach
blogs.wsj.com
LinkedIn suffered a breach resulting in the loss of over 6.5 million encrypted passwords that could allow criminals to break into subscribers’ accounts, according to two security firms....
Google Wallet flaw takes the lock off your mobile money
venturebeat.com
A new vulnerability in Google Wallet gives access to your funds, even after the application data has been erased. Google Wallet allows you to digitize your credit cards and pay for things using near-field communication (NFC). That is, all you have to do is touch your phone to a device...
Chinese police net 10,000 arrests in latest online crime crackdown
thenextweb.com
Three months of renewed efforts by the Chinese police to crack down on online crime have resulted in 10,000 arrests and the breaking up of over 600 “criminal gangs,” state media has reported. Xinhua made mention of a statement from the Ministry of Public Security announcing that the campaign, which began...
Pirate Bay must be blocked in UK, High Court rules
arstechnica.com
The United Kingdom's High Court ruled Monday that The Pirate Bay must be blocked by all local Internet services providers, thereby cutting it off from a potential user base of over 50 million people. The ruling comes after a February decision that the site was infringing copyright in the...
The long arm of Microsoft tries taking down Zues botnets
news.cnet.com
Microsoft and its allies seized control servers Friday in two states as part of an operation to not just stop the botnets but also to disrupt how criminals use them. [Read more]...
Criminals are fleeing the law, and flocking to Facebook
www.theverge.com
Today's criminal investigations aren't unfolding in back alleys or street corners, but on Facebook and Twitter. That's the argument put forth by Winston Ross, who, in a recent piece for the Daily Beast, describes today's increasingly web-based prosecutorial landscape as "cops-and-robbers 2.0." Ross' article is framed around one Travis...
Sophisticated bank fraud attempted to steal at least $78 million
arstechnica.com
McAfee and fellow security firm Guardian Analytics released a report today that detailed a sophisticated type of bank fraud that originated in Italy and spread globally, initiating the transfer of at least $78 million from around 60 financial institutions. Banks in the Netherlands were hit the hardest, with fraudsters attempting...
Cybersecurity Researchers Team Up To Combat Online Crime
bits.blogs.nytimes.com
Two days before Microsoft, aided by United States marshals raided command centers in Pennsylvania and Illinois used by online criminals to run a botnet, a separate group of cybersecurity researchers based in San Francisco quietly took down another botnet using more technical means. The efforts were not connected, but point...
Watch this: Guy Pearce in the first four minutes of 'Lockout'
www.theverge.com
What do you get when you mix equal parts Blade Runner, The Rock, and The Transporter? It might be something like the upcoming film Lockout, and producer EuropaCorp has made the first few minutes available online. Set in a dystopian 2079, Guy Pearce plays Snow, an unjustly-imprisoned man who...
Verizon: Hacktivists stole 100 million+ records in 2011
news.cnet.com
Hacktivists emerge as a big threat in 2011, targeting large organizations and stealing more records than financially motivated criminals, report finds. [Read more]...
Google searches for criminals in bid to reduce global crime
www.engadget.com
Google's pretty much aced searching for your latest whim, so now it's turning its efforts to criminals. Working with the Council on Foreign Relations, the internet giant has been exploring ways of using its technology for the greater good. Yahoo reports that Google Ideas will meet with the CFR...
Computer Scientists Break Security Token Key in Record Time
bits.blogs.nytimes.com
The widely used RSA electronic security token is once again hacked -- but this time its a team of cryptography researchers, not thieves. It suggests that security companies have not kept with the technologies of criminals and spies....
Big questions remain unanswered over the government's 'snooper's charter'
www.guardian.co.uk
The coalition wants to monitor our emails, texts and web use – but hasn't explained why or how, or who it thinks it will catchThe coalition has pushed ahead with its plans to introduce monitoring of who is talking to whom over the internet, known as the "header" information of...
Microsoft employees seize Zeus botnet servers with the help of US Marshals
www.theverge.com
Accompanied by US marshals, Microsoft employees raided office buildings in Scranton, Pennsylvania and Lombard, Illinois on Friday; seizing servers believed to be running botnets used for identity theft. The botnets are infected with the Zeus family of malware, which uses keylogging to go after a user's financial information. Microsoft...
Daily Report: Pressure Builds Over App Store Fraud
bits.blogs.nytimes.com
In the shadowy world of hacking, it's often unclear how criminals get iTunes passwords or credit card information. But the App Store, and Apple's broader iTunes Store, have become playgrounds for illicit transactions. And the Web is rife with App Store scams....
Anonymous urges public to protest the European Union and INDECT [video]
www.bgr.com
Notorious hacker-activist group Anonymous is back with another operation that aims to strike fear into the hearts of lawmakers in the European Union. While the operation does not involve any cyberattacks, Anonymous is attempting to rally supporters for a massive protest on July 28th. The group is protesting the...
US crackdown on illegal robocalls
www.bbc.co.uk
The US government organises a "summit" to tackle computer controlled phone calls by criminals trying to defraud the public....
What We Lose When We Glorify "Cashless"
battellemedia.com
Look, I’m not exactly a huge fan of grimy greenbacks, but I do feel a need to point out something that most coverage of current Valley darling Square seems to miss: The “Death of Cash” also means the “death of anonymous transactions” – and no matter your view of the...
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arstechnica.com
With all the attention being showered on Pinterest lately, it was inevitable that criminals would figure out a way to cash in on the popular social-media pinup site. New point-and-click software available in underground markets does just that by helping even the most technically unsophisticated people prey on the gullibility...
Monitoring Twitter and Facebook could foil terrorists
www.telegraph.co.uk
The security services need to make greater use of social media such as Facebook and Twitter to track criminals and terrorists, the former head of GCHQ has said....
Cybersecurity "hotline" to link Washington and Moscow
arstechnica.com
Since 1988, the Nuclear Risk Reduction Center (NRRC) has been tasked with the mission of reducing the risk of nuclear conflict between the United States and Russia through a direct channel of communication—most notably via the famous "red phone." Today, Russia (and China) often has become the great bogeyman...
Schneier: government, big data pose bigger 'Net threat than criminals
arstechnica.com
As Bruce Schneier spent the past decade watching the growing rash of phishers, malware attacks, and identity theft, a new Internet threat has emerged that poses even greater risks, the security expert said. Unlike the security risks posed by criminals, the threat from government regulation and data hoarders such...
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