If you steal an Xbox 360, don't forget to disable the auto sign-in feature before going online. That's the lesson high-tech crooks are probably gleaning from today's New York Post brief about a thief, 22-year-old Jeremy Gilliam, apprehended after logging into Xbox LIVE with his victim's online game id.

On Dec. 11, the bank’s information technology director Christine Lee met with Dells police to report that a person or persons gained unauthorized access to the bank’s domain registration. Between Dec. 5 and Dec. 7, changes made to the domain redirected customers accessing dellsbank.com or commbankportage.com to a fictitious web page. The page stated that “your account has been created” and that the person could access the Web site by going to another link

For two years as a researcher with security company FireEye, Atif Mushtaq worked to keep Mega-D bot malware from infecting clients' networks. In the process, he learned how its controllers operated it. Last June, he began publishing his findings online. In November, he suddenly switched from de­­fense to offense. And Mega-D--a powerful, resilient botnet that had forced 250,000 PCs to do its bidding--went down.

Думаешь .NET приложения сложны для взлома? Поверь, крекинг .NET-сборок ничуть не сложнее, а в целом значительно проще традиционных приложений. В ролике ты увидишь процесс решения одного из .NET CrackMe. На закуску продемонстрирована процедура снятия защиты с помощью шифрования.

Internet users in Northern California were unable to reach properties including Amazon.com and Amazon Web Services for a time Wednesday evening, as their DNS provider was targeted by a distributed denial-of-service attack. The attack came as North American consumers rushed to finish online shopping ahead of the end-of-year holiday season.

As e-readers such as the Amazon Kindle continue to rise, so follows the publishing industry's worst nightmare: e-book piracy. For years e-book piracy was the exclusive province of the determined few willing to ferret out mostly nerdy textbook titles from the Internet's dark alleys and read them on their PC. But publishers say that the problem is ballooning as e-readers grow in popularity and the appetite for mainstream e-books grows.

Security experts are warning of a highly critical new zero day vulnerability in Microsoft’s popular Internet Information Services (IIS) web server product which could allow hackers to bypass existing security measures and upload malicious code to any affected machine.

The investigation into the so-called Warmergate emails - the leaked data from the University of East Anglia’s climate change department - took a new twist last night when The Mail on Sunday tracked the stolen messages to a suspect computer which provides internet access to China.

A Chinese court announced imprisonment of up to three years to 11 persons on December 16, 2009 for their alleged role in the creation and distribution of computer virus that had the capability of stealing usernames and passwords of online games.

21-year-old Mormon college student from Nauvoo has shut out scores of other gifted computer hackers to win the U.S. Cyber Challenge.

Watching the feeds, one’s can often face the news that another Twitter account of some Britney Spears, John McCain and others of that ilk was hacked. Typically, these hacks do not make much effort and are hacked using “brute force” (stars like to set some simple passwords). But brute force – is not our method. British comedian, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and "V - for Vendetta" film star, Stephen Fry, can be taken as an example

Откуда берутся сплоиты? Задумывался ли ты, каким образом тусклая новость из багтрака превращается в реально работающую отмычку? Каким образом двумя десяткам строчек кода удается получить шелл на удаленном сервере? Сегодня мы посетим фабрику сплоитов и во всех подробностях посмотрим, как изготавливается качественное изделие.

A Twitter-style service offered by a government-linked news site in China was hacked and has since gone offline, according to screenshots posted on the Web.

Hackers have exploited flaws in a popular open-source advertising software to place malicious code on advertisements on several popular Web sites over the past week.

A former Massachusetts prison inmate has been given an 18-month prison sentence for hacking prison computers while he was incarcerated.

A San Francisco startup plans to release software for the five major smart-phone operating systems to protect data, detect malicious software and allow remote backups.

Security experts are warning that hackers are now using Microsoft’s Live Spaces blogging platform in order to push up the popularity of fraudulent online pharmaceutical sites in a strategy known as search engine poisoning.

With increasingly stringent compliance mandates, the explosion in virtualization interest and adoption, demands for audit reporting, and a spike in security breaches, 2009 has been a dynamic year for the IT security and compliance world.

The malware writers and criminals who run botnets for years have been using shared hosting platforms and so-called bulletproof hosting providers as bases of operations for their online crimes. But, as law enforcement agencies and security experts have moved to take these providers offline, the criminals have taken the next step and begun setting up their own virtual data centers.

The Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has issued new internet regulations which could mean that many overseas web sites will be unavailable to Chinese readers.

Do you enjoy dominating your house like the Trinity killer on Dexter, knowing exactly what each of your family members are doing at all times? Then Swann has the four camera security system for you.

U.S. authorities are investigating the theft of an estimated tens of millions of dollars from Citibank by hackers partly using Russian software tailored for the attack, according to a news report.

A security researcher has identified more than 8 million Adobe Flash files that make the websites hosting them vulnerable to attacks that target visitors with malicious code.

An Israeli hacker says he has broken copyright protections built in to Amazon's Kindle for PC, a feat that allows ebooks stored on the application to work with other devices.

Однако случилось так, что точка общественного интереса куда-то переместилась или просто исчезла. Компьютер стал подобен телевизору или даже электролампочке. Тоже — чудесам прошлого. Кстати, плохо понимаю, куда завтра переместится этот пик, этот фокус

A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a $290 million judgment against Microsoft Corp.

На своем опыте все успели убедиться в том, что антивирус не обеспечивает абсолютной защиты. Пока вирус не попадет в руки специалистов, не будет изучен и не появится сгенерированная под него сигнатура, система остается полностью беззащитной перед новыми угрозами

Телефоны на базе Linux’а мы видели не раз. Но выход смартфона на новенькой Meamo 5, по сути, являющейся Debian’ом, да еще и на машинке с характеристиками, сравнимыми с компьютером, мы пропустить не могли. А потому решили посмотреть, на что же способен этот мобильный линукс и нужен ли он вообще?

By recommending that users exclude some file extensions and folders from antivirus scans, Microsoft may put users at risk, a security company said today.

Twitter's login credentials were used to make DNS changes that redirected surfers to a protest site last Friday, according to site admins.

Over the weekend, a major Typolight security hole was identified that allows hackers to bypass password authentication and gain access to Typolight sites.

Intel has released a patch for its series of silicon-based security protections after researchers from Poland identified flaws that allowed them to completely bypass the extensions.

В этом ролике ты узнаешь, как можно за пару минут поднять собственный прокси-сервер с помощью утилы Pproxy. Сначала хакер выбирает обычный веб-шелл из заначки. Затем заливаем скрипт проксика на удаленный сервер, после чего, запускает локальную часть тулзы на своем компе

A dangerous vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6 and 7 became publicly known before a fix was available, raising the specter of a high-risk zero-day attack.The bug involves the way IE handles Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) objects, and could let an attacker run any command on a targeted Windows XP, Vista, Server 2003, or Server 2008 PC. Bad guys have already posted sample attack code online. IE 8 is not affected

Illegal file sharing levels are still not declining despite a recent crackdown by the government, according to new research from British recorded music industry body the BPI.

A DNS hijacking attack left Twitter temporarily affected for about an hour early on Friday.

Microsoft launched a pilot test program for an online tech-support forum that will be staffed by paid “independent experts.”

The Novell-backed Moonlight project released the final Moonlight 2, an open source Linux/Unix clone of Microsoft's Silverlight framework that offers improved media streaming. Novell and Microsoft also announced that they will continue their Moonlight collaboration and extend Microsoft's patent covenant to Moonlight distributors other than Novell.

Someone hacked into the N.C. Community College System server and accessed Social Security and driver’s license numbers of college user libraries, including more than a thousand users of Pamlico Community College's library.

On Dec. 16, the Seoul police department reported that two Koreans were arrested in China as suspects of the fraud. Park, 27, and his accomplice used a cyber virus to obtain victims’ information, which they used to withdraw money from their bank accounts. They are being charged for breaching information technology network laws. Since late last year, an increasing number of similar frauds have been reported, but this is the first time that actual arrests were made.