Hackers Sunday hacked the website of US based clothing and items supplier David Morgan. The hack also involved over 24,000 accounts being leaked online by a hacker that goes by the name pokeu. All accounts have encrypted passwords. As has been the case in many recent hacks Pokeu, has posted all the account details on Pastebin. He has [...]
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Pokeu leaks 24,000 account details after hacking David Morgan
Posted: 16th January 2012 by infosecindia in Data Loss, Data PrivacyTags: David Morgan, hacker, Pastebin, PII, Pokeu, US
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‘Scareware’ Distributors Targeted: 12 Nations Coordinate Anti-Cyber Crime Effort
Posted: 23rd June 2011 by infosecindia in Law & Order, Malware, NewsTags: Canada, Cyprus, department of justice, FakeAV, FBI, France, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Operation Trident Tribunal, Romania, scareware, Sweden, two arrests, UK, Ukraine, US
One of the most widespread types of cyber scam being perpetrated against consumers these days involves “scareware”—those pop-up messages you see on your computer saying you’ve got a virus and all you have to do to get rid of it is buy the antivirus software being advertised. And if you don’t buy it? The pop-ups [...]
Swiss bank account of Indian American Malware writer and an associate frozen by US
Posted: 13th June 2011 by infosecindia in Law & Order, MalwareTags: Björn Sundin, IMU, Indian, Innovative Marketing Ukraine, Shaileshkumar Jain, Swedish, Systemdoctor, US
The US Attorney’s office has Friday frozen a Swiss bank account belonging to Sam Shaileshkumar. “Shaileskumar, together with Björn Sundin were the main figures behind Innovative Marketing Ukraine, a malware house that was operating from Ukraine. Neither Shaileshkumar or Sundin were nationals of Ukraine themselves. Shaileshkumar holds a US passport while Sundin is Swedish,” informed Mikko [...]
Anonymous prepares strike against PROTECT IP Act in Operation Payback
Posted: 24th May 2011 by infosecindia in DDoS, NewsTags: Anonymous, hacktivist, IRC, MPAA, Operation Payback, PROTECT IP, RIAA, US
The notorious hacktivist group Anonymous, which was recently blamed for the hack on Sony PlayStation Network is preparing for yet another assault. The group is calling its members and supporters for Operation Payback, on the lines of Operation Payback that attacked websites of companies like PayPal and Mastercard in support of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. [...]
Chinese search engine Baidu sued by New Yorkers
Posted: 19th May 2011 by infosecindia in Law & Order, NewsTags: Baidu, China, Google, Internet Censorship, New York, Search engine, US
China’s biggest search engine, Baidu was sued on Wednesday by eight New York residents who accused China’s biggest search engine of conspiring with the country’s government to censor pro-democracy speech, Reuters reported. The lawsuit claims violations of the U.S. Constitution and according to the plaintiffs’ lawyer is the first of its type. It was filed [...]
US Strategy for Cyberspace says that US will retaliate hostile acts in cyberspace with military means
Posted: 18th May 2011 by infosecindia in Law & Order, NewsTags: cyberattacks, DDoS, International Strategy for Cyberspace, US
“When warranted, the United States will respond to hostile acts in cyberspace as we would to any other threat to our country. We reserve the right to use all necessary means – diplomatic, informational, military, and economic – as appropriate and consistent with applicable international law, in order to defend our Nation, our allies, our partners, and our [...]
Asia becomes top spam continent: India contributes 7.1% to worldwide spam
Posted: 16th May 2011 by infosecindia in News, SpamTags: India, Sophos, Spam, UK, US
Security firm Sophos has published its latest report into the top twelve spam relaying countries, covering the first quarter of 2011. Despite remaining at the top, the USA’s proportion of the global spam output fell significantly from 18.83% to 13.7% of all spam relayed from compromised computers. The United Kingdom also saw a drop, with its [...]
Mozilla defies DHS request to take down MafiaaFire Add-on
Posted: 10th May 2011 by infosecindia in Law & Order, NewsTags: Department of Homeland Security, DHS, Firefox, Internet Censorship, MafiaaFire, Mozilla, US
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a division of DHS, has seized dozens of domains in an effort to crack down on piracy and copyright infringement, blocking access to the sanctioned websites via the most common domain URL. From time to time, Mozilla receives government requests for information, usually market information and occasionally subpoenas. Recently the US [...]
Kaspersky Lab Obtains US Patent for Rootkit Detection and Treatment System
Posted: 8th May 2011 by infosecindia in NewsTags: China, Europe, Kaspersky Lab, Patent, Rootkit, Russia, US
Kaspersky Lab has obtained a US patent for a method of combating rootkits that has already been implemented in a number of its security products. Rootkits are malicious programs that can run at the kernel level of an operating system and load when the system boots. This makes rootkits difficult to detect using standard protection [...]