by Joseph Forbes | Apr 10, 2013 | Cloud Apps, DATA, ENTERTIANMENT, HACKING, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, PIRACY
from the somehow-not-stymied-by-DRM dept. hypnosec writes with news that a group of Russian hackers have compromised the security of Ubisoft’s digital distribution platform, uPlay, finding a way for users of the service to download any of its games for free....
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 10, 2013 | DATA, HACKING, HARDWARE, INTERNET, SECURITY
The back-up registries were announced shortly after gTLD rollout security concerns were raised by Verisign and others The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has selected three emergency back-end registry operators to guarantee domain names...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 9, 2013 | HACKING, HARDWARE, INTERNET, Internet Scam Notices, KnowledgeBase (KB), Malware Reports, SECURITY, TECHNOLOGY
Protip: don’t install an Android application package file if it’s named “Certificate.apk”. It’s not legit (obviously). Trojan:Android/Pincer.A is able to forward SMS messages and perform other actions based on commands it receives from...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 9, 2013 | DATA, HACKING, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, Technicals
The Cutwail botnet, which has already been spreading the banking trojan known as Zeus, is now also trying to pass around a new Android trojan called Stels. Stels infects Android devices by pretending to be an update for Adobe Flash Player. In case potential victims...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 6, 2013 | DATA, HACKING, HARDWARE, INTERNET, POLITICAL, SECURITY, TECHNOLOGY
from the now-you’re-just-being-jerks dept. Emergency-service providers and other organizations are being targeted with TDoS (telephony denial of service) attacks, according to a security alert (PDF) from the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI, obtained...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 4, 2013 | HACKING, INTERNET
from the north-korea-has-a-flickr-page? dept. With tensions on the Korean peninsula continuing to rise, Anonymous hacked into the government-run North Korean Flickr site to post a ‘wanted’ poster for NK leader Kim Jong Un. It says that he is wanted for...
