Tag: social
5 Mandatory Steps For Protecting Data From Eavesdroppers
Chris Dougherty VirtualThreat Contributing Writer Every day we hear news reports in the mainstream media about social network hacking, malware, malicious account takeovers and protecting data. It doesn’t matter if you are the average Joe Blow or a huge corporation like Burger King, everyone is being targeted these days. Cyber criminals are searching for everything from [...]
Anonymous Hackers Target CEOs in Operation Wall Street
Chris Dougherty VirtualThreat Contributing Writer Anonymous hackers have launched ‘Operation Wall Street’, a new protest started by the loosely organized hactivist collective against the US government, Wall Street and the financial services industry. The operation is a call to all Anonymous “members” and citizens of the world and seeks justice for the “innocent and exploited people being forced into homelessness” [...]
McDonald’s Innocent in McHacking of Burger King Twitter Account
Jason Sickles Yahoo News Don’t blame the Hamburglar. Burger King’s official Twitter account was McHacked about noon EST on Monday and changed to resemble their rival. The pranksters swapped the page’s profile image to include a photo of McDonald’s iconic golden arches and rewrote the account description to claim Burger King, “Just got sold to [...]
Latest Facebook Hacking Attack Investigated By FBI
Times of India WASHINGTON: The US Federal Bureau of Investigation is collaborating in the investigation of a “sophisticated Facebook hacking attack” by hackers on Facebook last month, which, according to the social network, has not compromised users’ data. The daily San Francisco Chronicle said Saturday that the FBI is working with Facebook to determine the [...]
Chinese Hackers Target Bloomberg Journalists in Latest Media Attack
Adam Taylor Business Insider In next week’s Businessweek cover story, investigative reporters Dune Lawrence and Michael Riley take a deep dive on Chinese hackers, coming up with some fascinating details. It’s a big story given the recent accusations about Chinese hackers that have come from the New York Times and other news outlets, and Lawrence and Riley [...]
6 Military Grade Solutions For Keeping Your Data Safe
Chris Dougherty VirtualThreat Contributor Keeping your data safe. It might seem inconvenient, but it should be your primary concern. Whether you work for a three-letter government agency or on top of a roof pounding nails, we all have sensitive information that we want to keep away from prying eyes. These days our most private data is stored on computer hard drives, from passwords [...]
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SNOPA Bill Reintroduced To Protect Your Privacy Online [VIDEO]
Chris Dougherty VirtualThreat Contributing Writer You may soon have legal recourse in the fight to protect your privacy online. If a new bill finds its way into law, social networking users might soon be able to make a federal case out of employers asking to snoop through their online accounts. Members of Congress, Rep. Jan Schakowsky [...]
How Cyber Criminals Are Exploiting Our Swipe-n-Go Society
Chris Dougherty VirtualThreat Contributing Writer Curtis Abernathy, a small business owner in Arizona, never expected to be caught up as the victim of an international ring of cyber criminals stealing identities online. But that’s exactly what happened last week when he received a call from Bank of America’s security office. The bank’s security team [...]
Experts Say Facebook Hackers May Be Infecting Your Computer
John Brandon Fox News Sadie Ouse, a high school senior, never saw it coming. Recently, Facebook hackers commandeered her Facebook account. Using a common malware tactic, the hacker sent a message to all of her friends with a link to the site homeincomenow3.com, operated by “Zhang Lei” in Beijing, China. A Norton security scan [...]
Hackers Pay Big Money to Use New Exploit Kit
John Lister InfoPackets The group behind a collection of ‘premium’ hacking tools is apparently charging hackers $10,000 a month for permission to use their exploit kit. The proceeds are helping fund rewards for anyone who shares information with the hackers about previously unknown software vulnerabilities. According to security firm Sophos, the ‘premium’ hacking kit [...]
Al-Qaeda Linked to New York Phone Hacking Scams
Chris Dougherty VirtualThreat Contributing Writer Hackers with ties to Al-Qaeda terrorist cells in Somalia and the Philippines are targeting New York small businesses using international phone hacking scams. The scams are costing the companies hundreds of thousands of dollars in phone charges each month. Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) said that the hacker group has a [...]
Hacked Phones Could Be Listening To Everything You Say
Chris Dougherty VirtualThreat Contributing Writer Most people believe their phone conversations are private. Well, they may not be as private as you think if your office or home is filled with hacked phones. Researchers at Columbia University have discovered a flaw in telephones that allows a hacker to turn a phone’s microphone into [...]
Evade Government Surveillance Stay Anonymous Online
Chris Dougherty VirtualThreat Contributing Writer Why stay anonymous online? In today’s society there are people and automated devices that are recording your deepest, most private thoughts and activities. Each day we voluntarily divulge the most intimate details of our lives through social networking accounts, email, banking apps, online games and more. In addition, [...]
Top 6 Cyber Security Predictions for 2013
Chiranjeev Bordoloi VentureBeat If there is any weakness in security, you can guarantee the criminals will try to exploit it. And if a cyber criminal discovers a weakness in one community, it won’t be long before that isolated crime turns into a trend. The commercialization of malware is rapidly becoming a well-organized and highly [...]
FBI Warns Public About Smartphone Malware Attacks
Michelle Lowry KJRH Channel 2 News TULSA – Smartphone malware attacks. The Internet Crime Complaint Center says there is malware attacking operating systems for mobile devices. Just two examples of this malware according to the FBI are Loozfon and FinFisher. Information-stealing malware could come in as a work-from-home opportunity that promises big bucks for [...]
Hacking Medical Records Next Target for Criminals in 2013
Arik Hesseldahl AllThingsD.com The next great target for criminals and digital troublemakers in 2013 is hacking medical records. According to a long report in the Washington Post and based in part on research by the Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins University, despite numerous technology standards written into federal regulations, the many ways that [...]
Facebook Mobile Camera App Allows Hackers To Hijack Accounts
Ingrid Lunden Techcrunch PSA to all Facebook Camera users on iOS: If you haven’t updated your app in the past few days, update it now. The older version of the app, pre-1.1.2 and released before December 21, has a security loophole. When used over WiFi networks, malicious hackers can tap the network and hijack accounts, picking [...]
Anonymous Hackers Target Ohio Football Team Over Gang Rape
Natasha Lennard Salon.com “KnightSec,” an arm of the Anonymous hackers, attacked the website of an Ohio high school football team to demand a public apology for the gang rape of a 16-year-old girl reportedly perpetrated by players. Last weekend, the website of the locally celebrated Steubenville High School Big Red football team was replaced [...]
Android Malware Steals Bank Data From Your Phone
Lucian Constantin PC World Several malicious Android apps designed to steal mobile transaction authentication numbers (mTANs) sent by banks to their customers over SMS (Short Message Service) were found on Google Play by researchers from antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab. The Android malware apps were created by a gang that uses a variant of the [...]
Criminals Targeting Holiday Shoppers With Dexter Malware
Chris Dougherty Virtual Threat Contributing Writer As the Christmas season and holiday shopping hits full swing, cyber criminals are using sophisticated attacks to steal your money and credit card data. The latest scheme infects cash register machines with a malicious piece of software called Dexter malware. Seculert, an Israeli security firm, has identified a [...]
Warning: Massive Bank Cyber Attacks Are Being Planned
David Goldman CNN Money Security firm McAfee on Thursday released a report warning that massive bank cyber attacks on 30 U.S. banks has been planned, with the goal of stealing millions of dollars from consumers’ bank accounts. McAfee’s research upheld an October report from RSA, the security wing of IT giant EMC Corp. RSA [...]
Facebook Hackers Busted in $850 Million Theft
Fernando Alfonso III Daily Dot Facebook has worked with the FBI to take down 10 Facebook hackers responsible for stealing $850 million over the last two years. The hackers from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, New Zealand, Peru, the United Kingdom, and the U.S. were responsible for “more than 11 million compromised computer systems [...]
Anonymous Spokesman Barrett Brown Indicted For Sharing Link on IRC
DJ Pangburn Death and Taxes Last week a federal grand jury indicted Barrett Brown, the former self-styled spokesman of Anonymous, on 12 charges relating to the Stratfor hack spearheaded by Jeremy Hammond. One of the charges pertains to Brown sharing a link related to the Stratfor hack. It seems that when Anonymous hacked the [...]
Silent Attackers Are Hacking Smart TVs
Darlene Storm Computerworld Hacking Smart TVs? Can you imagine your “smart” TV being targeted by a zero-day exploit, becoming part of a botnet, or being used to conduct espionage? How about if the TV manufacturer, an attacker, or even the CIA were to hijack the video camera in the TV? Suddenly, as you watch TV in [...]
What To Do When Your Phone Gets Hacked
Elise Ackerman Forbes What To Do When Your Phone Gets Hacked … My friend Mike’s Android phone had been acting strangely for awhile. In the middle of the night, the phone would come alive. It would meander down various menu paths, send texts that were gibberish and start playing poker. Was it bug in [...]
