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111 Arrested for biggest identity theft and credit card fraud Case One of the biggest identity theft and credit card fraud cases in history has generated millions of dollars in losses to date. 111 individuals have been indicted in the largest identity theft takedown in U.S. history. " This is by far the largest--and certainly among the most sophisticated--identity theft/credit card fraud cases that law enforcement has come across ," said Richard A. Brown, the district attorney of Queens, N.Y., in a statement announcing the arrests. The defendants, members of five organized forged credit card and identity theft rings based in Queens County and having ties to Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East, are charged in ten indictments with stealing the personal credit information of thousands of unwitting American and European consumers and costing these individuals, financial institutions and retail businesses more than $13 million in losses over a 16-month period. As part...

U.S. drones affected by Keylogger Virus A keylogger of some sort has infiltrated classified and unclassified computer systems at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada, recording the keystrokes of pilots tasked with operating unmanned drone aircraft in Afghanistan and other international conflict zones. The virus, first detected nearly two weeks ago by the military's Host-Based Security System, has not prevented pilots at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada from flying their missions overseas. Nor have there been any confirmed incidents of classified information being lost or sent to an outside source. But the virus has resisted multiple efforts to remove it from Creech's computers, network security specialists say. And the infection underscores the ongoing security risks in what has become the U.S. military's most important weapons system. Tadd Sholtis, a spokesman for Air Combat Command, which oversees the drones and all other Air Force tactical aircraft said, " We generally do...

SWSE - Most Advanced Wi-Fi Hacking and Security Course online We covered the launch of the SecurityTube Wi-Fi Security Expert in a previous article. As their entire courseware is available online free of charge to evaluate: , I took a look over the weekend and I was very impressed. The instructor assumes you are an absolute n00b to the subject and starts from the very basics of how to get started with creating your own lab for doing Wireless Hacking exercises. He then slowly gains momentum and touches upon a ton of topics - Honeypots, Hotspot attacks, MITM over wireless, WEP/WPA/WPA2 Cracking, WPA/WPA2-Enterprise hacking, PEAP, EAP-TLS, EAP-TTLS cracking, creating backdoors with wireless, Wi-Fi malware etc. All of this is covered in over 12+ hours of HD videos. I would strongly recommend you to download the full courseware here and see for yourself: https://securitytube.net/downloads If you are interested in using this for your job and desire to get a certification then, Security...

[ Call for Article ] The Hacker News Magazine - November 2011 Edition The Hacker News is starting to prepare the next issue of ' The Hacker News Magazine '. Submissions are invited for a 6th up coming special November Issue as " Anniversary Edition ". If you have something interesting to write, please drop us an email at : thehackernews@gmail.com Yes ! We are going to Celebrate ' The Hacker News '  1st Anniversary on 1 November, 2011 . Each Issue/Article of our Magazine and Website aims to spread Awareness and Knowledge about Cyber Security. We gather articles from young minds that deal closely with the topic of Security and Hacking Threats. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: - New Attack and Defense Techniques - Vulnerability discovery - Small Tactics & Techniques - Big Attacks & Impact - Mobile Hacking - Professional Exploit Development - Security and Hacking Events Around The World ...

Optima DDOS 10a botnet leaked on Underground Forums On underground forums " Optima DDOS 10a Botnet " full version posted for all to download and use. Complete new version of the acclaimed DDoS bot Optima Darkness. In this new version 10a according to the author was raised in secrecy bot system and optimized grabber passwords. It cost about $ 600 worth. Features a bot: DDoS attacks of three types - http flood, icmp-flood, syn-flood. Theft of stored passwords from some applications installed on the victim's system, details below. Opening on the infected system proxy Socks5. The possibility of cheating various counters on the websites (http-access the sites). Hidden download and run the specified file to the affected systems. Installed in the system as a service Weight bot - 95.5 kb, written in Delphi. At the moment the following antivirus detected: [ Source ]