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The simplistic spam campaign that hit around Christmas and purported to be a holiday greeting from the White House not only included a piece of Zeus-related malware that searches hard drives for documents and uploads them to a remote server, but also appears to be connected to a similar attack from early 2010 that exposed a nascent botnet. The holiday e-card scam is a typical year-end spam tactic and often will include malware of one type or another. But the latest incarnation was different in that it included a malicious executable related to the Zeus botnet and it seems that officials in a number of government agencies in the U.S. and elsewhere fell for the scam and ended up exposing gigabytes of government documents. One of the executables being used in the e-card attack is nearly identical to a file that was used in a similar attack in February 2010 that was detailed by security firm NetWitness at the time. In the frst stage of the latest attack, the user clicks on a link in the m...

A nearly nine-month investigation by Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s detectives has led to the arrest of a former UCSB student as a suspected identity thief who bilked at least five victims out of at least $158,000. Imoukhuede Ohiwerei Ehimika, 26, of Nigeria was arrested Dec. 21 at his home in the 200 block of Mathilda Drive in Goleta, the Sheriff’s Department announced Thursday. He was released Tuesday, Dec. 28, after posting $150,000 bail. Detectives began their investigation in April after a Santa Barbara area man reported that someone had used the Internet to transfer more than $5,000 from the his bank account into a fraudulent bank account that had recently been opened under his name. Over the next two months, detectives received similar reports from other Goleta and Santa Barbara residents involving transfers from their home equity accounts. In each case the suspect then bought money orders from various Wal-Mart stores around Southern California. Detectives allege that Ehimi...

Have you received an email seemingly from Microsoft's security team telling you to " Update your Windows "? Have you been sent a file called KB453396-ENU.zip and told to run it on your Windows computer? Well, think twice before following the instructions. Cybercriminals are up to their old tricks, spreading malware under the disguise of a critical security patch from Microsoft. In the current example, they've spammed out an email containing a worm, which even quotes the real name of a senior member of Microsoft's security team - Steve Lipner - to try to fool you into believing it is genuine. The emails have a subject line of " Update your Windows " and contain the following text: Of course, Mr Lipner has nothing to do with the emails and Microsoft never distributes security updates via email attachments. Nevertheless, there have been a series of attacks that have abused his name in the past. With so much effort being taken by the cybercriminals to hoodw...

Chinese website Dlzdjy.com   database hacked by Team Jmc H4x0rs Admin Panel : Database :  News Submitted By : Team Jmc H4x0rs

Manufacturers racing to create HDTVs that can connect to the Web may have rushed over an important step in trying to rush them to market: keeping them safe from hackers. According to the  New York Times , security firm Mocana was able to hack an Internet-connected set “with unsettling ease.” The hack allowed them to obtain the owner’s credit card numbers and to monitor the data being sent from the TV to various Web sites. Mocana refused to divulge the brand of HDTV into which it easily hacked, though it did say that it was one of the five most popular Web-connected sets. Especially concerning was Mocana’s conclusion about how the Internet features were implemented for this particular TV: The things we found were mistakes that an inexperienced device designer would make when connecting something to the Internet for the first time. Security companies are still figuring out the best ways to prevent breaches in new devices that connect to the Internet, including using fingerprint scan...