This week the Russian fellow known for his hacking of the in-app purchase function for Apple's mobile operating system has declared that "it's all over." He added "...for now" to his chat on the subject, saying that he'll still be keeping his exploit up for download even though it no longer works in the current version of Apple's iOS. Alexey Borodin, as he's known, will be working to keep security strong in the system - such is his ultimate goal, or so he says.
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Power Pwn surge protector snoops on your network
A company called Pwnie Express has a new product that's in the works called the Power Pwn. It looks like your typical power strip or surge protector but is designed to snoop on your network. Systems administrators in the enterprise setting won't appreciate this device all because it could be slipped into the network, and most people would never even notice.
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Apple OS X app hack discovered
About a week ago, Russian hacker Alexey Borodin found a way for iPhone and iPad owners to download in-app purchases for free. Well, now, that same hacker has managed to circumvent the same kind of procedure for Mac OS X apps. The "In-Appstore for OS X" uses a similar receipt-spoofing method that made waves among iOS apps last week.
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Seattle hacker held for massive retail cyberattack
This week a Russian native hacker was arrested in Cyprus, Seattle in the USA for relatively gigantic attacks on retail outlets back in 2008. Dmitry Olegovick Zubakha, 25, of Moscow was previously held by a Seattle grand jury for conspiracy to intentionally cause damage without authorization to a protected computer as well as unlawful possession of "at least" 15 unauthorized access devices. The attacks being publicized this week took place in 2008 and associated the hacker with illegal activities involving Amazon.com, ebay.com, and Priceline.com over a period of several months.
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Global spam falls by 18% as Grum botnet is knocked offline
There are dedicated botnets out there in the wide world that exist solely for the purpose of distributing spam. Grub, the third largest botnet in the world, was finally taken offline by security experts yesterday, resulting in a dramatic 18% reduction of global spam. Grum’s servers, which were based in Russia, Panama, and the Netherlands, controled around 100,000 PCs. The two botnets that take first and second place, Cutwail and Lethic, are still active.
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Dropbox hires outside experts to investigate reports of spam
Dropbox has received a bunch of reports from users claiming that their accounts had been attacked by spam yesterday. The biggest worry now is that an address leak on Dropbox's part may be to blame, considering many of the targeted users had only set up unique and private email addresses only to be used with a Dropbox account. Dropbox has since announced that it had hired a group of outside experts to investigate the possible security breach.
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Yahoo security breach shows terrible password decisions
While it's true that Yahoo's recent security breach, in which a group of hackers used an SQL injection attack to walk off with 450,000 Yahoo Contributor Network passwords, could have been prevented with better security on Yahoo's part (the company stored the passwords in plain text), it's also forcing us to come to a rather shocking realization. Apparently, people are still making very dumb decisions when it comes to choosing a password. We should all know by now that the strongest passwords are ones that include a combination of upper and lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols, but is seems no one told that to a number of Yahoo users.
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Yahoo confirms 400k account hacks
Early this morning it was revealed by a group of hackers, and now confirmed by Yahoo, that they’d busted past Yahoo’s security forces and posted the passwords for 400,000 user accounts online. This posting was accompanied by a note that warned Yahoo and similar sites to re-think their security measures. Meanwhile Yahoo has stated that they are investigating the matter and that, of course, they encourage everyone in their network to change their passwords immediately and frequently thereafter to retain privacy for all of their accounts.
Samsung to offer Galaxy S III Developer Edition for Verizon
Certain customers hoping to get their hands on the Verizon version of the Samsung Galaxy S III weren’t happen to hear that the handset would feature a protected bootloader, especially when variants on other carriers didn’t have the same “feature.” Samsung’s solution is to offer a developer edition of the phone for those who want full access, although it’ll only be available at an unsubsidized price of $599.
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Anonymous picks up litter in latest protest effort
This week it seems that the collective known as Anonymous has taken to picking up trash in the streets in order to push forth as a positive force in the world of activist computer hacking. This protest has been made against a recent revision of Japanese laws against illegal downloads of media on the web. This protest is an effort to show the world that Anonymous is not a terrorist organization, instead representing themselves with an act of public good to show their dissent against what they feel are unfair internet laws.
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Internet Doomsday simple fix rundown
Believe it or not, this so-called "Internet Doomsday" you've heard about over the past week or so is a real situation - but taking care of it on your own computer is not as terrifying as the name of the day suggests. The so-called virus is called DNSChanger, and thought the fear-mongering amongst us would have all collecting water and dry food for the oncoming electrical winter, there's not actually that much to worry about. In fact, according to several internet service providers across the country, nothing significant has even appeared on their grid as the day has progressed.
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DNSChanger malware for dummies: Sophos video explains it all
Today the folks at the security group Sophos have released a simple "how to" video on the DNSChanger (or DNS Changer, if you prefer) Malware, showing how you can avoid losing your internet connection on July 9th. This information has been published by us before in the post DNSChanger: How to find it and how to fix it earlier this week, but for those of you that prefer a simple explanatory video instead, today we've got that for you as well.
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