A new Zeus P2P malware variant discovered last week by security vendor Trusteer is attempting to scam users of some of the Internet’s most popular and trusted brands — Facebook, Google Mail, Hotmail and Yahoo — with promises of rebates and new security measures. In a blog post, Trusteer CTO Amit Klein ays the scams...
The real-life Steve Jobs with the real-life Ross Perot -- who may or may not be a character in either or both of these movies -- in 1987 Right now, if you want to watch a fictionalized version of the story of Steve Jobs, you have one option: the so-so 1999 teleflick Pirates of Silicon Valley, with Noah Wyle as Apple’s cofounder. Before...
Online privacy company Abine has developed a simple tool that quickly measures how much your data is worth to Facebook. I bet you want to try it out. Give it a whirl here: Val-You Calculator. I first saw the tool mentioned in a recent article by my colleague Violet Blue: Flashmob privacy protests target Facebook tomorrow: New York,...
Jeremy Hammond, a hacker with ties to both Lulzsec and Anonymous, pled guilty in a New York courtroom yesterday. Hammond is accused of being a part of an attack on Strategic Forecasting, Inc, which resulted in the personal info of over 800,000 of the company’s clients being stolen. The attack included the publishing of 60,000 credit...
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) website has been taken offline following a suspected distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. The public-facing website does not contain any sensitive information, the information watchdog said. “Access to the ICO website has been disrupted over the past few days. We believe this is...
A Twitter user called Smedley Manning (@cubespherical) has claimed that he is in the possession of the real identity of the controversial hacker known as “The Jester” (@th3j35t3r). While the mysterious Manning brings proof that Jester admits to be unmasked, some believe that this may actually be a clever plot to raise money. The Jester...
Scotland Yard’s investigation into phone and computer hacking and corruption has led to the arrest of 46 people so far. Six have now been charged and four told they face no further action. The probe has spawned a series of operations including Weeting (the inquiry into phone hacking), Elveden (investigation of alleged corrupt payments),...
In a clear warning to mobile users in developed markets, Russian cybercriminals have started distributing a wave of premium rate malware from rogue marketplaces, including one example disguised as an Android Flash Player. Reported by Trend Micro, the first attack is a straightforward piece of social engineering, attempting to trick...
Apple has announced the release of a standalone Flashback malware removal tool for computers running Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, even though the operating system is no longer officially supported. Like the security updates for 10.6 Snow Leopard and 10.7 Lion, the 1.23MB tool removes “most common variants of the Flashback malware”,...
More than $87,000 worth of the virtual currency known as Bitcoin was stolen after online bandits penetrated servers belonging to Bitcoinica, prompting its operators to temporarily shutter the trading platform to contain the damage. Friday’s theft came after hackers accessed Bitcoinica’s production servers and depleted its...
