17-year-old hacker arrested for KPN-hack by Dutch goverment

The High Tech Crime Team of the National Crime Squad in the Netherlands has arrested a 17-year-old boy on suspicion of hacking into KPN.
The 17-year-old is suspected of hacking at KPN held on 16 January. He was arrested last Tuesday. The police seized a encrypted computer, two laptops and data carriers. During the hack the hacker obtained access to hundreds of servers from KPN. Possibly because of poor security of the company itself. There was controversy when details were published on the Internet, but these were from another hack, namely shop Babydump.nl

The boy used the aliases xS, and Yui Yoshioka. On a chat channel of Korean students he would have bragged about the digital intrusion. The cyber team followed him for weeks on the internet. The boy is therefore suspected of hacking the Tokohu University in Japan, the University of Trondheim in Norway and the KAIST in Korea.

Origins of Global Hacks: America And China are Leader

 Where do hackers come from? | Global tracking ranks hacks by country of origin

Computer hacks originating in the UK cost the global economy over $2 billion in 2011 according to latest research from FTSE listed IT assurance company, NCC Group.
The research, which tracks the country of origin of hacks, observed over 23 million hacks attempted in the UK in the second half of 2011. This figure places the UK at 15th in the global league table.

Trojan found breaking Yahoo CAPTCHA security in minutes

Researchers have discovered a malware engine that appears to be able to break the CAPTCHA security used by Yahoo's webmail service after only a handful of attempts.

There is nothing new in malware that tries to break CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) - a low-level war has been ongoing since this type of security was first implemented almost a decade ago - but what matters is how quickly and invisibly this can de done.

La Banque Postale: Tentative de Piratage

Nouvelle tentative de piratage des données bancaires des clients de la Banque Postale. Le piège n'est pas nouveau mais a une fâcheuse tendance à s'améliorer. ZATAZ.COM a détecté plusieurs nouvelles tentatives de filoutages de données bancaires appartenant aux clients de La Banque Postale. Cet hameçonnage débute par un courriel aux couleurs de la filiale bancaire de La Poste. Un émail avec logo et contenus pouvant piéger le lecteur : "Nous avons récemment déterminé que différents ordinateurs connectés a votre compte, Mot de passe et les échecs multiples étaient présents avant la connexion." Mission de l'escroc, inciter le lecteur de la missive usurpatrice à cliquer sur le lien fourni. Dans les cas détectés par ZATAZ.COM, les sites elmaleka.tv et 196.206.0.126 étaient exploités dans cette arnaque. Des urls qui dirigent le surfeur sur des espaces numériques se faisant passer pour un espace d'administration personnel de La Banque Postale.

source:ZATAZ.COM

Nuclear Reactor worm infection - Davis-Besse

On January 25, 2003, at 12:30 AM Eastern Standard Time, the Slammer worm began exploiting a
vulnerability in Microsoft SQL Server. Within ten minutes, it had infected 75,000 servers
worldwide—90% of vulnerable hosts. The design of Slammer was simple; it did not write itself to
the hard drive, delete files, or obtain system control for its author. Instead, it settled in system
memory and searched for other hosts to infect. Removing the worm was as simple as rebooting the
server after closing network port 1434, Slammer's point of entry.