Email Scam Promises Job Opportunity for Well-Known Charity

Some New Jersey residents have fallen for a phishing scam that exploits a well-known charity and cons victims into believing they are doing a good deed while hackers are siphoning thousands of dollars from unsuspecting individuals.

NorthJersey.com reports Habitat for Humanity is being used as bait to trick individuals into opening emails offering a job collecting money for the nonprofit organization

“The email is offering you a job soliciting donations for…

Security Guard Pleads Guilty to Hacking Hospital Computer Systems

A former security guard has pleaded guilty to hacking his employer’s computers while working the night shift at Dallas-based Carrell Clinic hospital.

Jesse William McGraw, a member of a hacking group Electronik Tribulation Army, pleaded guilty last week to two counts of transmitting malicious code. According to court documents, McGraw last year created code that damaged a computer at the Carrell Clinic that maintained patient medical records. During the same…

Researchers Find Way to Hack Cars

Researchers with the Center for Automotive Embedded Systems Security (CAESS) have found a way to hack into cars and control vital functions, including braking. This week, the university researchers will present their paper “Experimental Security Analysis of a Modern Automobile” at the upcoming IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy in Oakland, CA, taking place Wednesday.

In late 2009, the researchers demonstrated the ability to hack into…

Australian Cyber Crime Nets $70 Million Annually

Organized crime is estimated to be costing Australia $15 billion annually, according to The Age. Cyber crime alone account for nearly $70 million stolen each year.

The major avenues for cyber crime are hacking and identity theft that defrauds the Australian government, companies and private citizens of millions annually. The United States and Australia are working closely together to combat…

Crime Friendly ISP Offline

A cyber crime friendly Internet service provider (ISP) has been knocked offline on Friday after its upstream provider had its service cut off, according to Zeus Tracker.

PROXIEZ-NET, a Russian based ISP that hosted at least 13 known Zeus command and control channels, lost its connection after its upstream provider, DIGERNET, had its Internet connection cut. It was withdrawn from Internet routing tables, according to an AS Report.

PROXIEZ-NET…

Ukrainian Hacker Caught in India

A Ukrainian national who is accused of hacking into nine U.S. retailers and stealing millions of credit card numbers was arrested in India, according to IDG News.

Sergey Valeryevich Storchark was arrested in New Dehli this week when he exited an airplane that had stopped over in India on the way to Turkey. U.S. authorities have been attempting to extradite him. Storchark is part of the group led by Albert…

Lawyers in India Get Cyber Training

Public prosecutors in Mumbai recently received training from the cyber crime investigation cell (CCIC) of the Mumbai police on cyber crime issues. Each of the prosecutors involved in the training are dealing with cyber crime cases.

The training focused largely on cyber crime and the information technology (IT) Act. Despite the implementation of the Act, most cyber crime cases do…

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New Approach to Data Sharing between DHS, Financial Services Companies

The government could soon have a new method of securing its computer networks. In collaboration with financial services companies, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense are testing a new pilot program that shares cyber-threat data in real time and reviews intrusions and activity on department networks, according to Federal News Radio.

Greg Shaffer, assistant secretary for…

Leave My Electrons Alone: Security the Smart Grid

The use of the smart grid has been touted by many in government and in the private sector as a method to reduce energy prices, cut down on power glitches and increase the use of renewable resources. However, the system also has a number of security challenges that need to be addressed prior to implementation.

In a smart grid, the…