Security
Facebook new changes may allow people to see your personal photos, Videos, DOB, Sensitive Information…
Check your Facebook ‘privacy’ settings now
If you use Facebook and care about your privacy, take a moment to read this blog entry. Facebook has made some major changes that may allow a great deal more people to see your personal photos and videos, date of birth, family relationships, and other sensitive information.
HOW TO CHANGE SETTINGS
While logged in to Facebook, click the "Settings" link and you should see a box that looks like the one pictured below…. more
Bank firewalls cracked by cyberhackers
Underground hackers have learned how to drain money from corporate bank accounts
For more than a decade the common currency among cybercriminals has been pilfered credit card numbers, but some underground hackers have learned how to drain money directly from corporate bank accounts. There has been a big rise in such frauds, raising the stakes in the war between financial institutions and criminals and costing some bank clients half a million dollars – or more.
iPhones in Australia get a ‘worm’ infecting users with Rick Astley
First iPhone worm targets modified handsets
The first known computer worm written for Apple‘s iPhone currently is infecting iPhones in Australia, swapping out the device’s background image with that of 80s singer Rick Astley.
iphone Unsecure: Hotspot sniffer eavesdrops on iPhone in real-time
People who use public WiFi to make iPhone calls or conduct video conferences take heed: It just got a lot easier to monitor your conversations in real time. At a talk scheduled for Saturday at the Toorcon hacker conference in San Diego, two security researchers plan to show the latest advances in the open-source UCSniff tool for penetrating voice-over-internet-protocol systems. With a few clicks of a mouse, they will eavesdrop on a call between two audience members using popular iPhone applications that route the calls over the conference network.
Hotspot sniffer eavesdrops on iPhone in real-time " The Register
Report: Fake security software in millions of computers – Symantec
Tens of millions of U.S. computers are loaded with scam security software that their owners may have paid for but which only makes the machines more vulnerable, according to a new Symantec (SYMC.O) report on cybercrime.
░ Fake security software in millions of computers – Symantec
Researcher: Hackers Hijack Some Facebook Applicatons
Researcher: Hackers Hijack Some Facebook Apps A number of games and other applications built to be used on Facebook.com have been hacked so that users are quietly sent to sites that try to install malicious programs, a security researcher has found.
Security Fix – Researcher: Hackers Hijack Some Facebook Apps
SSL is insecure.. unless you use FIREFOX, Man banished from PayPal for showing how to Hack PayPal
Thats right folks, your SSL connection is not secure unless you are using good ol firefox..
PayPal suspended the account of a white-hat hacker on Tuesday, a day after someone used his research into website authentication to publish a counterfeit certificate for the online payment processor.
"Under the Acceptable Use Policy, PayPal may not be used to send or receive payments for items that show the personal information of third parties in violation of applicable law," company representatives wrote in an email sent to the hacker, Moxie Marlinspike. "Please understand that this is a security measure meant to help protect you and your account. We apologize for any inconvenience."
Hijacked Webmail Accounts Used to Promote Dodgy E-Commerce Sites
Tens of thousands of compromised Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo Webmail accounts are being used to gin up traffic for dodgy, bargain-basement electronics vendors online that only accept bank transfers and Western Union payments, security experts warn.
Over the weekend, the credentials for at least ten thousand Microsoft Hotmail accounts were briefly posted online. Microsoft acknowledged the incident on Monday, saying the accounts were stolen as part of a phishing scam. Since then, other news outlets have reported that large caches of Yahoo and Gmail account credentials also were found online… More
'Thousands' of Hotmail passwords published online
MICROSOFT has blocked access to thousands of Hotmail accounts in response to hackers plundering password information and posting it online.
Cyber-crooks evidently used "phishing” tactics to dupe users of Microsoft’s free web-based email service into revealing account and access information, according to the US technology giant.
Spanish security firm detects 'swine flu' computer virus
Cyber criminals are taking advantage of swine flu fears with e-mails promising news on the illness which then infect computers with a virus, a Spanish computer security firm warned Friday.
The e-mails invite recipients to open a document with information claiming the H1N1 flu virus was developed by pharmaceutical firms seeking to make huge profits from the outbreak, Pandasecurity said in a statement.
But if the document is opened, a virus is installed on the person’s computer which can steal personal information like bank account data.
The amount of e-mails containing the virus circulating around the Internet exploded on Friday, the statement said.
Asked in an interview published in Spain last week about conspiracy theories that major pharmaceutical firms are behind the swine flu outbreak, the head of the World Health Organisation, Margaret Chan, said she “could not imagine” that they would be capable of generating a pandemic.