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What is believed to be the country’s biggest hacker training site has been shut down by police in Central China’s Hubei province.

Three people were also arrested, local media reported yesterday.

"Basically students were told how to steal accounts and use trojan programs. Sometimes trainers show us how to write programs,"

www.chinadaily.com.cn

“If you’re a law firm and you’re doing business in places like China, it’s so probable you’re compromised and it’s very probable there’s not much you can do about it,” Mandia says.

Now a leading computer forensic firm is providing the closest look so far at the nature of the attacks, and attackers, that struck Google and others, thousands of others. The report never mentions Google by name, or any other companies, but focuses on information gathered from hundreds of forensic investigations the firm has conducted that are identical to what we know about the Google hack.

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Security researchers have spied malware that stashes a copy of itself in a Windows help file to ensure victim computers remain infected.

The trojan, dubbed Muster.e by anti-virus provider McAfee, infects a Windows file called imepaden.hlp so it stores the main components of the malware in encrypted form. In the event the installed malware is removed, the secret payload is decrypted into an executable file called upgraderUI.exe and run by a companion installation file that automatically runs as a Windows service.

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A Georgia mother and her two daughters logged onto Facebook from mobile phones last weekend and wound up in a startling place: strangers’ accounts with full access to troves of private information.

The glitch—the result of a routing problem at the family’s wireless carrier, AT&T—revealed a little known security flaw with far reaching implications for everyone on the Internet, not just Facebook users….

Full Story » breitbart.com

After everyone started using cookie killers in their web browsers, the advertisers and everyone else who wanted to check up on you and where you have been started using a new method of tracking.

…By leaving cookies in Flash.

Wired.com reports that over half of the web’s most popular sites are using Flash Cookies to track us…  Unlike traditional browser cookies, Flash cookies are relatively unknown to us, the web users and they are not controlled through the cookie privacy controls in a browser. That means even if a user thinks they have cleared their computer of tracking objects, they most likely have not….

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Java Dialers that affect your mobile bill

Do you think porn on your phone is cute? So do the hackers! After taking a long hiatus, trojan dialers that can rack up thousands of dollars in charges are back by popular demand.

According to researchers at CA Security’s malware analysis lab, a new wave of malicious dialers is hitting users of mobile phones. The trojans are built on the Java 2 Micro Edition programming language and cause infected handsets to send SMS messages to high-cost numbers, at great expense to the victim.

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Baidu (www.baidu.com), China’s biggest search engine, was hacked on Tuesday morning, and is currently inaccessible.

Chinese surfers pointed out that the hackers, who label themselves as the "Iranian Cyber Army", changed Baidu’s DNS records, redirecting traffic to another site. This same group it seems hacked twitter not to long ago.

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Bono, frontman of rock band U2, has warned the film industry not to make the same mistakes with file-sharing that have dogged the music industry. Writing for the New York Times, Bono claimed internet service providers were "reverse Robin Hoods" benefiting from the music industry’s lost profits.

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Iraqi insurgents have reportedly intercepted live video feeds from the U.S. military’s Predator drones using a $25.95 Windows application which allows them to track the pilotless aircraft undetected. Hackers working with Iraqi militants were able to determine which areas of the country were under surveillance by the U.S. military, the Wall Street Journal reported…adding that video feeds from drones in Afghanistan also appear to have been compromised…more -> cbs4.com

Its time to update Firefox! Firefox 3.5.6 Update Brings Security and Stability Fixes in Windows and Mac: Firefox just bumped their latest release to version 3.5.6, bringing with it a page full of squashed bugs and security and stability fixes. You should be able to update through Firefox’s default Check for Updates dialog. How ? Fallow these simple directions to Update Firefox..

• Open Firefox
• Click on Help on File Menu ( last item )
• Check for Updates…  ( Pictured Left )

Firefox 3.5.6 Update Brings Security and Stability Fixes