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Carder forum drops offline after hack attack

A group of white hat hackers, called the War Against Cyber Crime, hacked into the Pakistan-based site, Pakbugs.com. Pakbugs provides a forum where hackers and cyber criminals discuss hacking tactics, trade malware, stolen credit card credentials and bank login details. The white hat group found login details and e-mail addresses of the forum’s participants and posted the details online with the hope law enforcement agents would begin investigations on those listed.

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NYT scareware scam linked to click fraud botnet

A Bahamian-based botnet has been tied to a recent uptick in scareware scams. The botnet was tied to a recent attack on the New York Times website whereby the site was hacked to push ads for Personal Antivirus; a rogue antivirus program. People choosing to purchase Personal Antivirus found their computers infected with a Trojan.

It is strongly believed the botnet is controlled by the same cyber gang that also did the Ukrainian fan club as the IP address for the fan club and the NY Times hack were the same.

The botnet is effective in having its traffic seen as “good traffic” because it alters the interval and breadth of the attacks across its network of infected machines.

First detected as redirecting traffic through 200,000 domains parked in the Bahamas, the botnet is now redirecting traffic through other intermediate sites hosted in the UK, US and the Netherlands.

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Misdirected Spyware Infects Ohio Hospital

A man wishing to spy on the PC habits of a woman he had had a relationship with. After purchasing a legitimate spyware application he somehow convinced the woman to install the program. However the woman installed the software on her work computer at the Akron Children’s Hospital.

In a 10 day period the man received over 1,000 screen shots that contained detailed information on medical procedures, diagnostic notes and confidential information on 62 of the hospital’s patients. He also was handed e-mail and financial records for four other hospital employees.

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Waxman Co-Sponsors Net Neutrality Bill

The issue of Net neutrality was raised in the House Thursday. Representative Waxman, chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee formally signed on a co-sponsor of House bill H.R. 3458. The bill, if passed, would require the FCC to keep an eye on ISPs to prevent them from blocking, interfering with or discriminating against lawful Internet-based applications and devices.

Republicans fear the bill is unnecessary and would be anti-consumer. Waxman feels such a bill would add definition, thus allowing the industry to benefit from clarity, consistency and predictability regarding Net neutrality.

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