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2012 Most Vulnerable Cities At Risk Of Cyber Crime Norton's study showed the city was one of the ten worst for hacking. Each city was ranked by the prevalence of PCs and smartphones in addition to social media use with risk factors like unsecured Wi-Fi hotspots and malware attempts. Manchester was found to be the riskiest city and Vancouver is the third most vulnerable city in Canada for cyber-crime. The Top 10 Riskiest Online Cities in the U.S. are: #1 – Washington, D.C. #2 – Seattle #3 – San Francisco #4 – Atlanta #5 – Boston #6 – Denver #7 – Minneapolis #8 – Sacramento, Calif. #9 – Raleigh, N.C. #10 – Austin, Texas The Top 10 Riskiest Online Cities in Canada are: #1 - Burlington, ON #2 - Port Coquitlam, BC #3 - Vancouver, BC #4 - Langley, BC #5 - Calgary, AB # 6 - Fredericton, NB #7 - Toronto, ON #8 - New Westminster, BC #9 - Edmonton, AB #10 - Victoria, BC Cyber crime expert Simon Ellson said there are a numer of steps people can take to stay safe wh

Syrian Malware and Darkcomet RAT : They    can't blame    the Developers Two days before we reported about The Syrian Malware - programs used to target the Syrian opposition.  According to Report, They steal the identities of opposition activists, then impersonate them in online chats, then they gain the trust of other users, pass out Trojan horse viruses and encourage people to open them. Telecomix agents Reverse-engineered that malware and Found that  Darkcomet RAT (Remote Administration Tool) version was 3.3 was Injected in SFX (SelF-eXtracting) archives as 1122333.exe injects this binary program into the Windows process "svchost.exe". Telecomix blame  Jean-Pierre aka  DarkCoderSc (Developer of Darkcomet) for creating this tool by saying " Jean-Pierre, please, next time you thing about writing some "espionnage software" think about life at stakes here and do something useful instead with your talent. " In Response  Jean-Pierre  write on

Over the past two years, a shocking  51% of organizations surveyed in a leading industry report have been compromised by a cyberattack.  Yes, over half.  And this, in a world where enterprises deploy  an average of 53 different security solutions  to safeguard their digital domain.  Alarming? Absolutely. A recent survey of CISOs and CIOs, commissioned by Pentera and conducted by Global Surveyz Research, offers a quantifiable glimpse into this evolving battlefield, revealing a stark contrast between the growing risks and the tightening budget constraints under which cybersecurity professionals operate. With this report, Pentera has once again taken a magnifying glass to the state of pentesting to release its annual report about today's pentesting practices. Engaging with 450 security executives from North America, LATAM, APAC, and EMEA—all in VP or C-level positions at organizations with over 1,000 employees—the report paints a current picture of modern security validation prac

Dropper Malware comes with DLL Hijacking Feature Trojans, Viruses, Worms have become the scare of the year, and with good reason. Many of the recent files are malicious in nature, causing the infected user at the very worst, to lose everything on their computer. There are few specially coded malware, which are not only developed to ensure that they cause maximum damage and steal all the sensitive information they can find on the infected devices. According to Bitdefender experts, In a blog post they mention about such a malware called "Dropper" or Trojan.Dropper.UAJ. But the brand new in terms of approach that dropper hijacks a library file called comres.dll, altering it to ensure that each time it's being used, the malware steps into play. The smartness of this malware can be judge from here that, it makes a copy of the genuine comres.dll file, patches it and then saves it in the Windows directory folder, where the operating system normally looks for a DLL to load when

MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom released on bail Kim Dotcom, the millionaire founder of the file-sharing website Megaupload, was released on bail Wednesday after a judge said he didn't appear to have enough money to flee. Authorities in the U.S. allege founder Kim Dotcom facilitated millions of illegal downloads through his company and he is subject to online piracy charges. Last month, U.S. authorities shut down Megaupload's websites and announced indictments against Dotcom and six other people connected to the site, accusing them of operating an " international organized criminal enterprise responsible for massive worldwide online piracy of copyrighted works. " They say Megaupload generated more than $175 million in illegal profits through advertising revenue and the sale of premium memberships. He had been in custody since his arrest on January 20 after he was initially denied bail. He said: ' I am relieved to go home to see my family, my three little kids

McAfee Q4 Threats Report, Mobile malware on the rise The number of new malware releases slowed during the final three months of 2011, but was higher than expected for the year. Computer and mobile security firm McAfee has warned " no organisation,platform or device " is immune from malware attacks as it released its Q4 2011 Threats Report. Mobile malware hit more than 400 unique samples in Q4, up from over 100 in the third quarter, and less than 50 samples in the first quarter of last year. McAfee also found that PC malware counts declined during Q4, and were lower than in Q4 of 2010. Even so, the total number of unique malware samples is more than 75 million as of Q4, the report says. " On a global basis, we are conducting more of our personal and business transactions through mobile devices, and this is creating new security risks and challenges in how we safeguard our commercial and personal data ," said Vincent Weafer, senior vice-president of McAfee Labs. McAfee Labs recorded

Los Angeles Police Canine Association hit by Hackers The official website of the Los Angeles County Police Canine Association (https://www.lacpca.com) was hacked by CabinCr3w group of Hackers. Hackers leak lots of data from the site on a Pastebin Note  titled as " PedoCop & Police Emails ". This data include officers names, addresses, and phone numbers of hundreds of officers and their membership rosters which were taken upon login. Hacker also upload two Archives which have the complete Google Emails data of two officers. Hackers also Mention that " we will not be including the photos from the email in this release but we will be making contact with the appropriate organizations protecting children from exploitation online ."