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Aldi Bot - Buy a Botnet just in 10 Euros Researchers of German security firm G Data have discovered that a bot builder dubbed " Aldi Bot " is currently being offered for that much on underground forums. The Aldi Bot Builder appears to be based on the ZeuS source code. The malware has nothing to do with the discount supermarket chain and it is not clear why its author chose to name the bot after Aldi – it is thought it may relate to the bot's discount pricing. Company says " We've encountered a bot sale, which, in case it finds followers, can cause a massive glut of malware all over. The so-called "Aldi Bot" first appeared in late August and has been sold for the initial price of €10! Parts of the bot's code oddly look like ZeuS code… " The Aldi Bot can read (saved) passwords from the Firefox web browser, Pidgin IM client and JDownloader download tool, and send them to a command and control server which is included in the €10 price tag. The Aldi Bot can als...

Bank of Melbourne Twitter Account Hacked Last week, the Twitter account of the Bank of Melbourne was hacked and used to send direct messages containing phishing links to its followers. In a tweet , the bank said that: ATTN: Unauthorised DMs sent bw 4-5pm today, do not click link. No customer/personal data compromised. Apologies for the inconvenience. A recently relaunched subsidiary of Westpac, the Australian bank engages heavily with its customers through its @BankofMelb Twitter account. However, the security of the account proved not to be up to scratch when hackers managed to gain access and used the account to send direct messages containing phishing links.The hacking of corporate Twitter accounts is nothing new, neither are phoney messages claiming to come from a bank. What makes this case rather unique - and worrying - is that the account itself is genuine, thus significantly adding to the credibility of the links. Dancho Danchev believes that this is not the act of an am...

John the Ripper 1.7.8-jumbo-7 Released Change Log : * Support for encrypted pkzip archives has been added, testing millions of candidate passwords per second. (JimF) (This is in addition to WinZip/AES archives, support for which was added in prior -jumbo updates.) * Support for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion salted SHA-512 hashes has been added (enabled when building against OpenSSL 0.9.8+ only), with optional OpenMP parallelization. (Solar) * Optional OpenMP parallelization has been added for salted SHA-1 hashes used by Mac OS X 10.4 to 10.6. (Solar) * PoC support for DES-based 10-character tripcodes has been added (does not use the bitslice DES implementation yet, hence is slow). (Solar) * The DIGEST-MD5 authentication cracker has been revised to be usable without requiring source code customizations. (magnum) * Highly experimental support for dynamically loaded plugins (adding new formats) has been added (currently only enabled on Linux). (Davi...

Nmap 5.61 TEST1 Released This Nmap 5.61TEST1 is an informal test release with all of the latest features from the SVN. Nmap ("Network Mapper") is a free and open source utility for network exploration or security auditing. Many systems and network administrators also find it useful for tasks such as network inventory, managing service upgrade schedules, and monitoring host or service uptime. Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are available on the network, what services (application name and version) those hosts are offering, what operating systems (and OS versions) they are running, what type of packet filters/firewalls are in use, and dozens of other characteristics. It was designed to rapidly scan large networks, but works fine against single hosts. Nmap runs on all major computer operating systems, and official binary packages are avalable for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. In addition to the classic command-line Nmap executable, the Nmap suite includes a...

Radware's Attack Mitigation System Delivers the First Fully Integrated Solution to Fight Cyber Attacks in Real Time The solution blocks the new breed of sophisticated attacks that target Multiple layers of the IT infrastructure .  Today's point security tools for IT infrastructures are not enough to protect against the new wave of sophisticated cyber attacks. That's why  Radware  (NASDAQ: RDWR), a leading provider of  application delivery  and  application security  solutions for virtual and cloud data centers, today announced Radware Attack Mitigation System (AMS), the industry's first fully integrated IT security strategy and portfolio that protects the application infrastructure in real time against network and application downtime, application vulnerability exploitation, malware spread, information theft, Web service attacks and Web defacement. Additional Resources   ·            ...

iPhone  Skype  XSS Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Phonebook [Video] A bug in the latest version of Skype for iPhone and iPod touch makes its users vulnerable to having their address book stolen just by viewing a specially crafted message, says AppSec Consulting security researcher Phil Purviance. The problem is made more exploitable by the way Skype uses the embeddable WebKit browser; Skype developers have set the URI scheme for the embedded browser to "file://". This error allows an attacker to access the file system and read any file that the app would be allowed to read by the iOS application sandbox. One file that every iOS application has access to is the user's SQLlite AddressBook database. In a demonstration of the bugs, Phil Purviance, AppSec Consulting security researcher, showed how it was possible to extract the iPhone address book using the vulnerabilities. Skype is aware of the issue and is working on a fix. "We are working hard to fix this reported i...

Chris Hoff, HacKid.org Leads UNITED Security Summit Award Winners Awards Recognize Outstanding Contributions to Propel the Information Security Industry Forward to Meet Future Challenges San Francisco, CA at the UNITED Security Summit – September 20, 2011 –  The first annual  UNITED Security Summit  included an awards ceremony at the official event party, held at Vessel, San Francisco last night. The UNITED Security Summit Awards focus on recognizing the contributions of individuals and organizations that are propelling the information security industry forward, building the level of preparedness in the face of the changing threat landscape.  Winners at the ceremony were recognized specifically for innovation, collaboration, investment in the future or in the industry in general, and leadership. "As a co-sponsor of the UNITED Security Summit awards and participant in the judging process, it's exciting to see how innovative and collaborative companies in the secu...