A website that leaked credit reports of celebrities and government officials last week appears to have a curious link to the malicious banking software known as “Zeus.” Scot A. Terban, an independent information security analyst known by his blogging pseudonym Krypt3ia, used a software tool called Maltego to research “Exposed.su,” which caused a stir last [...]
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Islamist Hackers Attack Bank Websites
March 25th, 2013 
National Cyber Security A hacker group that has resumed its denial-of-service attacks on bank websites says it will continue until more copies of an anti-Muslim video are pulled from YouTube. The group claiming responsibility for the attacks, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters, posted a new message Tuesday on the Internet message board Pastebin.com saying it targeted nine financial [...]
Reserve Bank of Australia Hacked by Chinese Malware
March 25th, 2013 National Cyber Security According to Australian Financial Review report on Monday, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) was hacked by hackers who infiltrated its networks and allegedly stole information using a Chinese piece of malware. After investigations they found multiple computers had been compromised by malicious software seeking intelligence. Several RBA staffers including heads of department were sent [...]
Hackers Attack Bank Minutes After NSA Chief Warns Senate About Hackers Attacking Banks
March 25th, 2013 National Cyber Security Gen. Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency, took the stand in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday and an ambitious expansion of the Pentagon’s Cyber Command. “We’ve seen the attacks on Wall Street over the last six months grow significantly,” Alexander told the senators, explaining that denial of service [...]
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Hackers attack website of Czech UniCredit Bank
March 25th, 2013 National Cyber Security PRAGUE (Reuters) – Hackers attacked the website of UniCredit Bank’s Czech unit late on Monday, causing a five-minute outage, but no customer data was compromised, a spokesman said. The cyber assault was not a distributed denial of service attack – when servers are overwhelmed with a flood of digital requests – of the kind that [...]
Hacker sneaks into firm’s email account, diverts $12k to Rajasthan bank
March 24th, 2013 National Cyber Security A businessman in Mulund lodged a police complaint after a hacker broke into his firm’s email account. The businessman said the hacker started corresponding with a client in Yemen and defrauded him of $12,000 on March 14. The matter came to light when the accountant of Host International Pvt Ltd received a note from the [...]
Hacker Jailed for Attack on Hong Kong Stock Exchange
November 28th, 2012 NewsRoom 
Hacker Jailed for Attack on Hong Kong Stock Exchange Tse Man-lai has been sentenced to nine months in jail. By Jeff Goldman Tse Man-lai was recently jailed for nine months for launching cyber attacks on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange’s HKExnews Web site. “Tse launched denial-of-service (DoS) attacks on HKExnews, a website providing price-sensitive information [...]
FBI cyber sting breaks massive international ‘carding’ operation
July 1st, 2012 hitech An intricate, two-year FBI Internet undercover operation that lured alleged cyber thieves to a fake Website netted two dozen arrests of hackers in eight countries in what the agency said is one of the largest coordinated international law enforcement actions in history directed at “carding” crimes. The operation, said the FBI, potentially saved legitimate credit [...]
Specialist Hacks 3 Million Accounts to Show Vulnerability of Banks' Security Systems
April 20th, 2012 TEHRAN: A computer specialist, who used to work for a PSP (payment service provider) company, has hacked accounts of three million bank customers to show the vulnerability of the banks to computer security threats. View full post on bank security hacker – Yahoo! News Search Results Other links you may like: The Worlds No 1 [...]
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Tags: accounts, Banks', Hacks, million, security, Show, specialist, systems, vulnerability Comments OffUtah Health Department Breach May Number Up To 750,000 Individuals
April 10th, 2012 Utah state health officials in Salt Lake City said Friday that hackers who broke into state computers last weekend stole more medical records than originally believed and the data most likely included Social Security numbers of children, reports Josh Loftin for the Associated Press . Approximately 182,000 beneficiaries of Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance [...]
Posted in Hackers vs. Banks Tags: 750000, breach, department, health, Individuals, number, Utah Comments OffCritical Cloud Vulnerabilities Revealed at TakeDownCon Hacking Conference in Dallas, TX – May 2012
April 9th, 2012 TakeDownCon Hacker Conference to be held at the Westin Park Central in Dallas Texas – May of 2012, will feature professional ethical hacker, Dave Chronister, of Parameter Security delivering the controversial topic, “Cloud Computing Creates Smoke Screen, Putting Users at Risk!”Dallas, TX (PRWEB) April 09, 2012 Everywhere you turn the “cloud” is the latest big [...]
Posted in Hackers vs. Banks Tags: 2012, cloud, conference, critical, Dallas, hacking, Revealed, TakeDownCon, vulnerabilities Comments OffMichele Swenson: Two-Party Economic Betrayal of the Working Class: The Need for a Grassroots Progressive Campaign
April 5th, 2012 Election year choices are increasingly disconnected from most people's lives, controlled by the Democratic-Republican duopoly in thrall to corporate megabucks that buy off government, and covered by corporate media like a horse race. View full post on bank security hacker – Yahoo! News Search Results Other links you may like: Recommendations & Credentials For Gregory [...]
Posted in Hackers vs. Banks Tags: betrayal, campaign, class, economic, Grassroots, Michele, need, Progressive, Swenson, TwoParty, Working Comments OffFeature: Coolest jobs in tech: hackers for hire
April 2nd, 2012 One spring day in 2010, a hacker named Kevin Finisterre knew he had hit the jackpot. A network he had been casing finally broadcast the live video and audio feed of a police cruiser belonging to a US-based municipal government. His jaw dropped as a computer in his home office in Columbus, Ohio showed the [...]
UN Security Council condemns Mali coup
March 23rd, 2012 UNITED NATIONS (AFP) – The United Nations Security Council on Thursday condemned the coup in Mali while top officials said fallout from the Libya civil war had increased the frustration of rebels who ousted the president. Related Stories US faces deadline to nominate World Bank chief Celebrity hacker to plead guilty in US court deal [...]
Online banking: Is your money safe?
March 23rd, 2012 When you log in to your online banking account, you presumably know that you are yourself. But how does your bank know you're you and not an unauthorized family member, friend or hacker trying to gain access to your account? View full post on bank security hacker – Yahoo! News Search Results Other links you [...]
