HNNCast030510
HNNCast for the first week of March, 2010
Lead Stories
- Mariposa Pinned, DoD now CEH, JiLsi Sentenced, TicketGangster
News
- Google: APT or Random Victim, Wyndumb Hotels, World of Wormcraft, Cyber Czar Misses Cold War
Quickies
- TOR Orbot, Tories Defaced, Help!, Chinese Legislator Draws Cyber-fire, FFIEC to Revisit Faux-Factor-Authentication, Iowa DHS Defaced, KSL TV Adverts have Side Effects, Cons Call
Stack of Shame
Count: 160
Posted: March 6th, 2010
at 3:48am by tan
Tagged with "North Korea", "US", andriod, authentication, banking, Borland, botnet, breach, CAPTCHA, cc, CEH, certification, Certified Ethical Hacker, China, command and control, COMPTIA, Computer Associates, credit card fraud, Credit Cards, Cyber Security Czar, Cyber War, DarkMarket, Days Inn, defacement, DevilMan, dod, EC-Council, F1, FFIEC, Finland, fraud, Google, Howard Johnson, Howard Schmidt, HP, IBM, Iowa Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, JiLsi, John McHugh, jonyloleante, KSL 5 TV, Labour Party, libevent, Mariposa, MFA, multi-factor-authentication, MusicToday, netkairo, notacon, onion router, orbot, ostiator, privoxy, QR Code, Ramada, RE-CAPTCHA, Renukanth Subramaniam, SECtor, Serious Organised Crime Agency, Super 8, Taoranju, TicketMaster, Tickets.com, TOR, Tory, UK, Windows Help, Wired.com, Wise Guy Tickets, World of Warcraft, wyndham, Yan Qi, Zeus
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Google Hack APT OR Child’s Play?
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I’m not surprised there’s a group of kids with capabilities most folks would see the fall out from and think they were dealing with a nation state  LOL! I guess that’s what happens when you take personal computing and put it into a business environment without spending any money toward industrializing it or playing on some higher level. You get pwn3d by some kiddy kung-fu :bA series of online attacks on Google and dozens of other American corporations have been traced to computers at two educational institutions in China, including one with close ties to the Chinese military, say people involved in the investigation. They also said the attacks, aimed at stealing trade secrets and computer codes and capturing e-mail of Chinese human rights activists, may have begun as early as April, months earlier than previously believed. Google announced on Jan. 12 that it and other companies had been subjected to sophisticated attacks that probably came from China. via Two Chinese Schools Said to Be Tied to Online Attacks « Dominic Stoughton’s Blog. |
More than 75,000 computer systems hacked in one of largest cyber attacks, security firm says
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OK, here’s the story of the week – showing up just about everywhere. Believe it too – NetWitness is some hardcore software totally capable of uncovering this sort of thing. Gee, SOME of the entries on the stack of shame are for vulnerabilities that have been known and not fixed by the vendor for just about the same length of time that this thing has been going on “under the radar”. Should vulnerabilities from 2008 really still be “unpublished”, out of the reach of AV and IDS vendors? I’ll bet we can find about 2500 companies who will argue NO now, even if it wasn’t a hole in something from IBM or HP (who are among the most notable offenders) – which it wasn’t; it was FireFox this time who has plenty of entries in the Stack of Shame – just none going back to 2008. More than 75,000 computer systems at nearly 2,500 companies in the United States and around the world have been hacked in what appears to be one of the largest and most sophisticated attacks by cyber criminals discovered to date, according to a northern Virginia security firm. The attack, which began in late 2008 and was discovered last month, targeted proprietary corporate data, e-mails, credit-card transaction data and login credentials at companies in the health and technology industries in 196 countries, according to Herndon-based NetWitness. via More than 75,000 computer systems hacked in one of largest cyber attacks, security firm says « Dominic Stoughton’s Blog.
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Posted: February 18th, 2010
at 11:13pm by tan
Tagged with APT, botnet, China, Google, Zeus
Categories: Breaking News
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