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Malicious Android application stealing banking credentials

Malicious Android application stealing banking credentials

Mar 15, 2012
Malicious Android application stealing banking credentials A new form of smart Android malware can not only steal your online banking information, but update itself in the future and secretly send contact information stored on your device off to the Bad Guys. Security researchers at McAfee have discovered a malicious Android application capable of grabbing banking passwords from a mobile device without infecting the user's computer. From a McAfee blog post on the subject, penned by Malware Researcher Carlos Castillo: " To get the fake token, the user must enter the first factor of authentication (used to obtain initial access to the banking account). If this action is not performed, the application shows an error. When the user clicks "Generar" (Generate), the malware shows the fake token (which is in fact a random number) and sends the password to a specific cell phone number along with the device identifiers (IMEI and IMSI). The same information is also sent to one of th...
Stanford University defaced by Indian Hackers

Stanford University defaced by Indian Hackers

Mar 15, 2012
Stanford University defaced by Indian Hackers Stanford University subdomain ( https://scale.stanford.edu/ ) defaced by Indian hackers " Yash " and " C0de Inject0r " from Team Nuts . Stanford is an American private research university located in Stanford, California. Hacker write on page " Everyday Someone Get Hacked , Today is your Day ". " Admin -Good Security ,But Still Failed To Keep Us Out Of Your BOX " They added. Deface page have " Vande Mataram " as background music. Vande Mataram is a patriotic song for Indians. Reason of Defacement is unknown. At time of writing this post, site displaying black colour background with Hackers message on it. Team Nuts Hackers was mostly active last year, you can check their past hacks here .
PS3 hacker Geohot arrested for possession of marijuana

PS3 hacker Geohot arrested for possession of marijuana

Mar 15, 2012
PS3 hacker Geohot arrested for possession of marijuana George 'GeoHot' Hotz, who you might know as "geohot" who made the Sony console's root key available last year, has been banged up for carrying drugs. He was traveling by car with friends on his way to the SXSW conference in Austin to give a talk titled " The Final Frontier of Reverse Engineering " when he had to stop at a border patrol checkpoint in Sierra Blanca, Texas. Department of Homeland Security officers were using dogs to decide if a vehicle warranted a search, and Hotz's car was barked at. Geohot holds a medical marijuana license in California (for those pesky headaches, clearly) and as such, was legally allowed to tote around a confectionary treat bag of THC-infused sweets. Sadly for Geohot, as he may or may not have noticed, he wasn't in California when a sheriff pulled a 1/4 oz. of Mary Jane from the glove box, alongside a pack of chocolates said to contain less than 1/8 oz. of the same Wa...
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Carbylamine PHP Encoder - Make PHP files Fully Undetectable from Antivirus

Carbylamine PHP Encoder - Make PHP files Fully Undetectable from Antivirus

Mar 15, 2012
Carbylamine PHP Encoder - Make PHP files Fully Undetectable from Antivirus Carbylamine PHP Encoder is a PHP Encoder for obfuscating/encoding PHP files so that antivirus detection signatures can be bypassed. High Security PHP Encoder Stops unauthorized personnel from reading, modifying and reverse engineering your code. Advance PHP obfuscation makes your code extremely hard to understand. Improves security by preventing hackers from analyzing your source code. Encoding is a process where the PHP source code is converted to an intermediate machine readable format. This format is hard for humans to read and convert back to source code. As a result it protects your code from casual browsing. This means that if people obtain access to your site's code they will not be able to use that for unintended purposes. Obfuscation is a process where code intentionally made very hard to read as source code or as reverse engineered code. This obfuscation is designed to manage risks that st...
Iran Defense Forum users logins compromised and Leaked

Iran Defense Forum users logins compromised and Leaked

Mar 15, 2012
Iran Defense Forum users logins compromised and Leaked Hacker with name " Le0n B3lm0nt " claimed to hack into the Iran Defense Forum website (irandefence.net) and leak user details of all 3,212 members including their usernames, Emails and Passwords.  Iran Defense Forum is an independent forum that is not associated with the Iranian Government, neither it is affiliated with any governmental or regulatory agencies nor related to any political or religious entity. Hacker leak the database on Pastebin Note . Also two days before  Iran hacked BBC Persian TV  The Reason behind this attack is part of a broader attempt by the government to disrupt the BBC's Persian service. This attack follows various tactics by the Iranian government, such as harassment, arrests, and threats against the relatives of BBC Persia correspondents who still live in Iran, in an effort to force the journalists to quit the Persian news service.
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