Anonymous, LulzSec Dump 10 Gigs of Sensitive Law Enforcement Data
Hacker collectives, LulzSec and Anonymous claim to have compromised the servers of the Missouri Sheriff’s Association, posting some 10GB of sensitive data online.
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“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
Massive Injection Campaign Affecting More Than Six Million Pages
We recently reported on a massive drive-by-download campaign affecting some 90,000 Web pages. In the less than two weeks since that report, the same campaign is now affecting more than six million pages.
New Analysis Finds Java is the Weakest Link in the Security Chain
Exploit kits come and go, but the exploits they utilize remain the same, according to Securelist’s mid-year analysis of exploit kits and attack vectors.
Global 2000 companies can be split into two categories, according to the author of a new white paper from McAfee (PDF); those that know they’ve been compromised and those that don’t yet know.“The only organizations that are exempt from this threat,” writes the paper’s author, Dmitri Alperovitch, “are those that don’t have anything valuable or interesting worth stealing.”
Hackers are actively exploiting a zero-day vulnerability that may be affecting millions of WordPress users. The bug was found in an image re-sizing utility that comes built-in to a number of commercial and free themes on the popular blogging platform.
A new report from the BBC claims that Anonymous’s recent attack on The Sun’s website was more than the embarrassing defacement it appeared to be, and that in addition to posting a fake story, the group may have made off with the personal information of thousands of individuals that had entered into various competitions on that site.
The once-prolific Conficker worm has turned up in the most unlikely of places: Australian discount supermarket, Aldi. The worm was discovered pre-installed on a four-in-one external hard-drive, DVD, USB, and card reader combination device.
Cybercriminals are increasingly turning to cloud storage services to distribute their malware, and not just the free ones, according to virus researchers at Kaspersky Lab.
What country serves up the biggest share of online attacks? The U.S., you say? It’s the world’s largest and most advanced economy. China maybe? Its growing fast, with billions of citizens and hundreds of millions of Internet users. How about Russia?
Researchers have discovered a massive iframe injection campaign that has infected more than 90,000 Web pages.
