ANZ has closed an older security hole in its online eStatements service, but at the same time opened up a new hole that exposed the personal details of some of its customers.
The bank previously pulled the service after it was discovered that electroni…
ANZ bank closes security hole, opens another
Asterisk Hack Post-mortem
Having your production Asterisk-based phone system hacked is no fun, as I have learned from first-hand experience over the past few days. Even the best of IT administrators taking ever security precaution in the book dreads the day their critical serve…
Microsoft denies Xbox Live security breach
GAMES CONSOLE MAKER Microsoft has denied that its Xbox Live internet gaming service has been breached by hackers.
The statement comes following news that members of the service have been the victims of various scams. One user’s account in particular wa…
Bow down to your new hacker overlords
Anonymous, move over. WikiLeaks, take a hike. There’s a new uber hacking/whistleblowing group in town with some serious game and a wicked cool name that’s putting you both to shame.
The Lords of Dharmaraja is the group behind the theft of Symantec’s No…
Is Your Online Bank Vulnerable To Currency Rounding Attacks?
In the 12+ years of doing penetration tests against various critical environments, we’ve seen numerous online banking servers and found all sorts of vulnerabilities in them, including bugs that allowed users to take money from other users’ accounts, ma…
FTC settles with rewards company over security infractions
A company that helps students save for college may have made them richer, but also could have opened them up to fraud.
The company, Upromise, which is owned by Sallie Mae, failed to live up to its vow to keep customers secure, which violated federal la…
Hackers rewrite smart meter power bill
Two German researchers have exploited security holes in a smart meter service to alter energy consumption rates, expose privacy flaws and determine what movies consumers had watched.
Dario Carluccio and Stephan Brinkhaus demonstrated the flaws with Ger…
Top German cop uses spyware on daughter, gets hacked in retaliation
Trojans—they’re not just for hackers anymore. German police, for instance, love them; a scandal erupted in Parliament last year after federal investigators were found to be using custom spyware that could potentially record far more information than …
