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20-year-old Anonymous Hacker arrested by Bulgarian Police Bulgarian police authorities have arrested an alleged member of the loosely associated Anonymous hacktivist group. The 20-year-old suspect has allegedly attacked the website of Prophon, a Bulgarian music licensing company. The reason - Mitko was against paying for music and movies, like to draw at will from the network. The attack he made on February 5, 2012 as able to penetrate into account the site administrator. Following the intervention of Mitko, entering the address www.prophon.org is appeared a message that "Anonymous" seize the site. " PROPHON Hello, We are Anonymous. We learned that you are greedy and another 12 organizations have signed an open letter in support of the so-called. Agreement ACTA. This is unacceptable and this angered us. You are first, not last. This should be a lesson to all who support ACTA. We are Anonymous. We are legion. We do not forgive. We will not forget. Expect us , "the...

Windows 8 will be challenge for Malware writers Microsoft™s security researcher believe that upcoming operating system, Windows 8 is a step forward in security and Windows 8 will be far better at protecting against malware than it's predecessors. Chris Valasek, a senior security research scientist at development testing firm Coverity, began examining the security features of Windows 8 last autumn, before the consumer previews of the upcoming revamp of the new Microsoft OS came out. " There are always going to be vulnerabilities but you can make it difficult to leverage vulnerabilities to write exploits ." One major change between Windows 7 and 8 is the addition of more exploit-mitigation technologies, however. Windows Memory Managers (specifically the Windows Heap Manager and Windows Kernel Pool Allocator) are designed to make it far harder for attackers to exploit buffer-overflow vulnerabilities and the like to push malware onto vulnerable systems. The "security...

Hackers Exploit Unpatched Windows XML vulnerability An unpatched vulnerability in the Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML) is being exploited in attacks launched from compromised websites to infect computers with malware. This zero-day exploit that potentially affects all supported versions of Microsoft Windows, and which has been tied to a warning by Google about state-sponsored attacks, has been identified carrying out attacks in Europe. Microsoft security bulletin MS12-037 was this month's cumulative update for Internet Explorer. It is rated as Critical, and addresses 14 separate vulnerabilities that affect every supported version of Internet Explorer in some way.One vulnerability in particular is more urgent than the rest, though. There are multiple attacks circulating online that target CVE-2012-1875 .The name of the vulnerability is " Same ID Property Remote Code Execution Vulnerability ", which doesn't really explain much. Until a patch is released, the Microsoft workaround...

Scamming site taken down by Hackers When hundreds of kids were duped into taking courses to improve their grades with a promise of an ipod if they succeeded, many pressured their parents to help find the company called Advantage Point Academy (https://www.advantagepoint.org/) a place to administer the lessons. Advantage point got parents in many schools through California, Oregon, and Washington to rent rooms and give their kids lessons that supposedly made them smarter........with a prize of an ipod when they finished. Advantage Point got their money for enrolling the kids but the kids got lessons and no ipods. Kids and parents have been calling, writing, reporting to the States and posting complaints on the companies Facebook page to no avail. In stepped xL3gi0n , who felt that if nothing else, a little web removal would bring solace to a disappointed and scammed group of parents and kids. On June 21st in the wee hours of the morning the site was taken down and all files remove...

Trojan.Milicenso - Printer Trojan cause massive printing A Trojan that sends printers crazy, making them print pages of garbled nonsense until all the paper has been used up, has seen a spike in activity.Symantec detected the Trojan.Milicenso across various countries, but the worst hit regions were the US and India followed by regions in South America and Europe, including the UK. According to a blog post published Thursday by researchers from antivirus provider Symantec, Dubbed " Trojan.Milicenso " it has been described by security researchers as a malware delivery vehicle "for hire" through its repeated use since it was first discovered in 2010. The Milicenso Trojan is actually a backdoor that is used to deliver other malware on the affected machines. The infection vectors are links and malicious attachments in unsolicited emails, as well as websites hosting malicious scripts that trigger the download of the Trojan. " Depending on the configuration, any files, including binary...