New Kernel Update Available for All Ubuntu OS

Canonical announced earlier today, June 29th, in a security notice, that new Linux kernel updates for its Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin), Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot), Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal), Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) and Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) operating systems is now available, fixing three important security vulnerabilities discovered in the Linux kernel packages by various developers.  The following vulnerability affects the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 11.10...

DNSChanger Trojan Still Prevalent In 350K Computers

Over Ten Percent of Fortune 500 Still Infected by DNSChangerGoogle is embarking on an effort to notify Internet users if their computers or home routers are still infected with the DNSChanger Trojan, a piece of sophisticated malware that has compromised an estimated 500,000 systems. The outreach campaign comes a little more than a month ahead of July 9, the date on which the FBI is set to take all computers corrupted with the malware offline.The FBI ended a major online DNS threat last year, but...

Texas Students Hijack a U.S. Government Drone in Midair

There are a lot of cool things you can do with 1,000 bucks, but scientists at an Austin, Texas college have come across one that is often overlooked: for less than a grand, how’d you like to hijack a drone? And Play with it?The University of Texas at Austin team successfully nabbed the drone on a dare from the Department of Homeland Security. They managed to do it through spoofing, a technique where a signal from hackers pretends to be the same as one sent to the drone's GPS. A group of researchers...

Banking Trojan Cleans Out Your Account Silently

Researchers at Tokyo-based anti-virus firm Trend Micro have discovered a new twist on banking Trojans that doesn't interact with the victim at all.Standard banking Trojans dupe an account holder to log into a duplicate of his bank's website, thereby conning him into giving up his username, password and account number, which they use to log in after he's done.    This new variant, which can be grafted into the existing banking Trojans ZeuS or SpyEye, infects computers the old-fashioned...

Zemra DDOS Crimeware Kit Revealed that Make Hell for Organizations

A new crimeware kit identified by Security Experts that’s mainly designed to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks against companies, with the purpose of damaging there reputation and blackmailing them. It was firstly revelled by underground hacking forum about June 25, 2012. And it cost only 100 EUR. Zemra is similar to other crime packs such as ZeuS and SpyEye, being controlled from the same type of panel which allows the botmaster to launch commands and view the number of infections.Backdoor.Zemra’s...

24 nabbed in US-led cybercrime finance sting

Mir Islam exits the Manhattan Federal Court in New York June 26, 2012. Islam, known online as "JoshTheGod," was one of two people arrested in the New York area. PHOTO: REUTERSNEW YORK: At least 24 people were arrested in the United States and abroad in a US-led sting operation targeting cyber criminals buying and selling stolen credit card information, officials said Tuesday.“Operation Card Shop” targeted “sophisticated, highly organized cyber criminals involved in buying and selling...

Hacker Mr.Badoo Arrested by FBI

Mr.Badoo is one of most famous and old hacker of Pakistan in cyber space.He is arrested by FBI on June, 25, 2012 for hacking into PC of Andy who create any event of drawing Prophet Muhammad’s(SAW). He hacked Andy account and remove that event from facebook. It has been almost 2 Years from now. It all started with a maniac’s malicious efforts of maligning Islam when he, the name’s Andy, started a facebook event of drawing Prophet Muhammad’s(SAW) picture with only one intention of maligning...