With the arrival of every new console comes a race for hackers to crack their way through the new toy’s security, and the PS3, after just over six months, has finally been defeated. An exploit has been found in versions 1.10 and 1.11 of the PS3 firmware which has allowed one cunning hacker to boot up copied versions of PS3 games. The fight isn’t over though – the game boots, but it doesn’t actually play, so there’s some way to go. And the exploit doesn’t allow for the running of unofficial (homebrew) programs, which is where the real meat of modding lies.
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Websense has discovered a new crimeware technique on the YouTube video clips website. When viewed, clips on the site activate a Trojan Horse via a file called âYouTube04567â, which is then downloaded onto the userâs PC. The payload code is an information stealing Trojan Horse which is designed to grab information from the userâs PC. It then uploads any sensitive information from the userâs PC to an undisclosed remote location.
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Hackers have broken into the capital city of the State of Nevadaâs general fund bank account and stolen $450,000. Investigators believe the hackers obtained the Carson City account log-in details after successfully uploading spyware to a city-owned computer. City treasurer Karen Avilla said she and her staff acted quickly after discovering the theft and, as a result, the bank was able to freeze 90% of the funds, although officials are still looking for the remaining $45,000. While she was investigating the first transfer, Avilla said she discovered a second unauthorised transfer worth $358,500, but that transfer was blocked at source.
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From a PIRT submission just a couple of days ago, we have three new brands that are being phished (never before seen in PIRT), Elsa State Bank & Trust, Premier America Credit Union, and Tyndall Federal Credit Union. Customers of these banks/credit unions should be on alert. The IP address that these phish reside on (compromised 219.248.62.85) comes back to AS9318, HANARO-AS Hanaro Telecom Inc. As you can see in the report link above, we have already sent out emails to all respective parties. If you have fallen victim to any of these phish we suggest you contact authorities immediately.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A jewelry company on eBay Inc. that allegedly bid on its own auctions to illegally drive up prices by as much as 20 percent agreed to pay $400,000 in restitution and penalties, the New York state attorney general’s office said on Saturday. Ezra Dweck and employees of his company, EMH Group, placed more than 232,000 such bids worth some $5 million over about a one-year period, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s office said.
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iDEFENSE has reported a vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat Reader, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user’s system. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the “mailListIsPdf()” function when checking input files. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow by e.g. sending an e-mail with a malicious PDF document attached or a link to one. Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.
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NEW YORK – In Cambridge, Mass., not too far from the Charles River, which cuts near Harvard and M.I.T., David Pearson is attempting to build an un-hackable network. Pearson is a division scientist at BBN Technologies, a private research company in Cambridge, Mass., which is most famous for building, in 1969, the first few nodes of a computer network connecting its headquarters to Harvard University and Boston University that over time would evolve into the Internet. Now the firm has built a network it says is impervious to hackers.
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Mozilla has released the next-to-last planned alpha edition of Firefox 3.0, the first preview to include a major chunk of the browser’s revamped bookmark and history tool. Alpha 5 of Firefox 3.0, which still carries the codename Gran Paradiso, includes the bookmarks portion of Places, the feature that at one time was slated to appear in Firefox 2.0. Last year, however, Mozilla yanked the searchable bookmark-browser history from 2.0 and said it would appear in 2007′s Version 3.0.
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Web servers running Microsoft’s IIS software are twice as likely to host malware as other site servers, it was claimed this week. Nagendra Modadugu, of Google’s newly-formed Anti-Malware Team, based his claims on an analysis of 70,000 domains that were either distributing malware or hosting attack code.
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A Chilean gay rights group claims its Web site was hacked by a Chilean skinhead group. Calling itself the Skinheads from Pitana, the supremacy group allegedly removed from the gay right’s Web site a banner featuring actors supporting the group known as the Movement for Homosexual Integration and Freedom, or MOVILH, the Santiago Times reported Wednesday. In its place, the hackers pasted a large picture of skinheads.
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