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Computer hackers will open a new front in the multi-billion pound \"cyberwar\" in 2007, targeting mobile phones, instant messaging and community websites such as MySpace, security experts predict. As people grow wise to email scams, criminal gangs will exploit new ways to commit online fraud, sell fake goods or steal corporate secrets. \"The attacks are becoming more sophisticated,\" said Dave Rand, of Internet security firm Trend Micro. \"It\'s all about making money. And they\'re making a lot of it,\" he told Reuters. In 2007, hackers will be scouring social networking sites such as MySpace to gather information for more targeted attacks on people\'s computers. \"It is definitely an area that is ripe for more exploitation by malware (malicious software),\" said Ed English, Trend Micro\'s Chief Technology Officer for anti-spyware. People could find their computers infected with viruses that secretly record all their keystrokes or send out millions of spam email messages. CLICK READ MORE Source here. Posted by tancurrom
The US government has given its blessing to a controversial deal over the future of the lucrative .com net domain. The deal gives .com administrator Verisign control over the domain until 2012. The US Department of Commerce retains some oversight of Verisign and has final approval of any price rises to renew .com net addresses. Critics said the deal gave Verisign a monopoly hold on the iconic domain. The .com domain is by far the most popular of the net\'s addresses and currently there are 59 million domains registered which use the suffix. Verisign maintains the address books of who owns which .com domain and runs the computers that direct web users\' computers to the right place. Source here Posted by tancurrom
Victor Faur, a 26-year-old Romanian national, has been indicted by the United States on charges that he led a group of hackers dubbed “WhiteHat Team†to illegally break into upwards of 150 government computers from agencies including NASA, the Department of Energy and the Navy, the Associated Press reports via MSNBC.com. Faur, of Arad, Romania, will be charged with nine counts of computer intrusion and a single count of conspiracy, and he could be sentenced to as many as 54 years in prison if found guilty of all charges, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office said, the AP reports. Posted by tancurrom
OriginalDissent.com was hacked earlier this morning by a group called Subliminal Hackers. OriginalDissent was a large and popular white power forum. The Hackers left a message stating \"No hate site will be left untouched\" \"One website at a time, they will go down\". It is believed the defacement was left unpatched for over 7 hours with several hundred people viewing it. They also claimed responsibility for other attacks that have happened this year. No hackers revealed their names only the name of the group.
November 23, 2006 (IDG News Service) -- A flaw in Mozilla Corp.\'s Firefox browser makes it easy for cybercriminals to steal user information on Web sites where users create their own pages, such as MySpace.com. The attack was used in a MySpace phishing attack reported in late October. In that attack, users registered a MySpace account named login_home_index_html and used it to host a fake log-in page that exploited the flaw. Firefox developers rate this bug critical, according to an entry in the project\'s Bugzilla database. Read the full article here. A PoC/demonstration can be found here and technical information can be found here.
A sophisticated computer hacker had access to servers at wireless giant T-Mobile for at least a year, which he used to monitor U.S. Secret Service e-mail, obtain customers\' passwords and Social Security numbers, and download candid photos taken by Sidekick users, including Hollywood celebrities, SecurityFocus has learned. “ On July 28th the informant gave his handlers proof that their own sensitive documents were circulating in the underground marketplace they\'d been striving to destroy. †Read more here.