Members of the loosely organized group conducting the AntiSec hacking campaign have compromised a company called IRC Federal, which does contracting for the FBI and other federal agencies, posting a large trove of information online in retaliation for what the group says is IRC Federal’s record of “selling out their ‘skills’ to the US empire.
Siemens AG issued an advisory to customers on Tuesday warning of a weakness in its Simatic S7 programmable logic controllers that could allow a remote attacker to intercept and decipher passwords, or change the configuration of the devices.
The clock is ticking for Apple to issue a patch for the iOS operating system that powers iPhones, iPods and iPads following the release of a remote exploit that uses specially crafted PDF files to defeat iOS’s content protection mechanisms and “jailbreak” mobile devices like the iPhone and iPad.
Worried that your organization might be the victim of a targeted attack or data breach? The proof may be right out in the open: posted for the world to see on Pastebin.com, LodgeIT, Pastie.org and other sites according to security expert Lenny Zeltser.
An analysis by anti malware firm McAfee says that attacks against South Korean government and U.S. military Websites most likely came from North Korea.
In a rare and sweeping move, Google has removed all of the sites hosted on .co.cc domains from its search results, saying that because such a large percentage of the sites on that freehosting provider are low-quality or spammy, they decided to de-index all of them.
Spammers have been exploiting anonymous URL shortening services for a while now but according to a post on Symantec’s MessageLabs Intelligence Blog, some have been using the technique as part of a large malware attack.
In March, Microsoft announced that its Digital Crimes Unit had scored a major victory in the war against hackers with the takedown of the Rustock botnet. Since then, the company has continued to monitor the activity of the network and the machines infected with the Rustock-related malware and found that the botnet is now less than half the size that it was before the takedown.
Someone was able to compromise a version of the vsftpd secure FTP server recently, inserting a simple backdoor that gives the attacker a shell on compromised machines. The bad version of the server has been removed and the creator of the app has moved it to a different hosting provider as a precaution.
UPDATE: Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News Network was caught sleeping on Independence day after unknown assailants compromised its @FoxNewsPolitics Twitter account early Monday and sent a string of messages claiming U.S. President Barack Obama had been shot and killed – a macabre display on the U.S.’s Independence Day.
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