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    The Pirate Bay have been taken down, but didn't drop piracy levels

    It very well could have been a symbolic victory and nothing else, after The Pirate Bay was shuttered, but digital piracy levels didn't significantly drop. Piracy torrent statistics have been made available courtesy of the anti-piracy Excipio firm, which tracks movie, TV shows, music, video games, and software torrent downloads - and on Dec. 8, the day before Pirate Bay servers were seized, there were 101.5 million IP addresses engaged in torrent downloads.


    The number dropped to 99 million on Dec. 9, then down to 95 million on Dec. 10, and 95.6 million downloads on Dec. 11, according to Excipio. However, the number again topped 100 million on Dec. 12, which noted that the daily average of torrent downloads worldwide since Nov. 1 was 99.99 million.



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    FBI warns US companies to be aware of potential cyberattacks from Iran

    US companies need to be aware of increasingly sophisticated Iranian cyberespionage operations, according to the FBI, with targets ranging from educational institutions, energy firms, defense contractors, and additional critical infrastructure.


    As part of Operation Cleaver, there have been 50 victims in 16 countries reported so far, according to cybersecurity company Cylance. The FBI's "Flash" report also included technical details about sophisticated malware and attack strategies that are likely being used by Iranian cybercriminals. "It underscores Iran's determination and fixation on large-scale compromise of critical infrastructure," Cylance CEO Stuart McClure reportedly noted.

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    FBI fears Iran

    They could have the power
    The US government is terrified that all its hacking off of Iran over the years could result in its power grid being hacked.
    The FBI has warned US.businesses to be on the alert for a sophisticated Iranian hacking operation whose targets include defence contractors, energy firms and educational institutions.
    Cyber security firm Cylance last week warned about something similar. It thought the Iranians were targeting critical infrastructure organizations worldwide. Cylance has said it uncovered more than 50 victims from what it dubbed Operation Cleaver, in 16 countries, including the United States.
    The FBI's confidential "Flash" report provides technical details about malicious software and techniques used in the attacks, along with advice on thwarting the hackers.
    Cylance Chief Executive Stuart McClure said the FBI warning suggested that the Iranian hacking campaign may have been larger than its own research revealed. "It underscores Iran's determination and fixation on large-scale compromise of critical infrastructure," he said.
    Hackers typically launch their attacks from two IP addresses that are in Iran, but did not attribute the attacks to the Tehran government. Cylance has said it believes Iran's government is behind the campaign which Iran has vehemently denied.
    Of course, if ISIS wanted to get America to attack Iran, it would be easy to base its cyber attacks in that country. Right now, the Iranians and the Americans are semi-united in their hatred of ISIS.
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    British hacking was extensive

    Attacked the home of chips
    The British Government seems to be spending a lot of its time hacking the inventor of chips – the key component in its national food fish and chips.
    British spooks have been taking the Belgian telecoms firm Belgacom to the cleaners for more than two years and the attacks are now believed to be more extensive than previously believed.
    Late last year when Belgium asked Britain, its NATO and European Union partner, to respond to allegations that its intelligence service was responsible for a hack of its networks.
    Now a Belgian newspaper De Standaard, Dutch paper NRC Handelsblad and The Intercept, published detailed accounts on Saturday of how the scheme is alleged to have worked.
    "In its digital attack on Belgacom, the British secret service was able to intercept more communications than was previously realised," De Standaard said.
    GCHQ got into the network in 2011 by hacking three employees and was then able to "poke around undisturbed" in the network of Belgacom and subsidiary BICS for two-and-a-half years.
    It intercepted communications from Belgacom's individual clients, from NATO and the EU, as well as from clients of hundreds of international telecoms providers. It is an unprecedented violation of the privacy of anybody who used a mobile telephone and in insult to the nation which invented French Fries.
    The malicious software found on Belgacom's systems was one of the most advanced spy tools ever identified by security researchers, who called it "Regin.” We are not sure what this means, perhaps Margaret Thatcher spelling the name of her favourite president or perhaps a top up of a Gin and Tonic.
    Belgacom, Belgium's dominant telecoms provider, was seen as a top target by the British spy agency because it plays an important role in Europe and has partnerships with hundreds of telecommunications companies across the world, it said.
    The hack was not detected until 2013, when Belgacom said it had improved security and removed an unknown virus from its systems and that there was no indication of any impact on customers. It did not respond to requests for comment on Saturday.
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    Anonymous targeting Swedish government for sinking The Pirate Bay

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    The Anonymous hacker collective is targeting the Swedish government for its decision to sink The Pirate Bay

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    The Anonymous hacker collective and Lizard Squad aren't happy with the Swedish government for dropping The Pirate Bay, and is launching cyberattacks to compromise government officials. Hackers provided the URL and IP addresses used by the Swedish police force, inviting other hackers to target its website. Additional attacks related to the remove of The Pirate Bay are expected to continue in coming weeks from a number of different groups.

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    Last week, Swedish ISP Telia also suffered cyberattacks, causing online services disruptions and connectivity issues for subscribers throughout the country. Usernames and passwords of numerous Swedish government officials were posted online by Anonymous. Hackers also targeted government email addresses for representatives in Argentina, Israel, India, Mexico and Brazil.
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    The Pirate Bay might return

    We just need a holiday, yarrrr Pirate Bay has been talking for the first time since the site was knocked over by a Swedish police raid last week. Apparently, the people behind the site are still considering their options and have no concrete comeback plans yet.
    The TPB crew have remained quiet since the raid but now “Mr 10100100000? has contacted the media and said that he was not that surprised by the raid. It is something that is “part of this game. We couldn’t care less really,” he said.
    “We have however taken this opportunity to give ourselves a break. How long are we supposed to keep going? To what end? We were a bit curious to see how the public would react.”
    A comeback may be more complicated than most people assume. It seems unlikely that the site will return within the next few days, but if it does eventually come back online people will surely notice. If the site reboots, it’ll be with a bang, Mr 10100100000 promised.
    “The people behind TPB are like one big collective mind. There are no leaders nor any one in charge. About 30-50 people from all over the world pitch their ideas against each other and whatever comes out of that is what will be the fate of TPB.”
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    Cybercriminals with bulk stolen data finding new ways to cash out

    Cybercriminals are compromising US consumers and business workers on a large scale, able to steal personal information and payment details in bulk. Home Depot was compromised and 56 million payment card numbers and 53 million email addresses were taken in a single breach alone, along with Target, Neiman Marcus, and a number of retailers also falling victim.


    However, trying to make use of stolen information forces cybercriminals to act quickly - if 10,000 cards are compromised, only around 100 could cash out, with an estimated 10 cars actually working, according to Alex Holden, from Hold Security.

    "Cybercriminals don't have enough resources to monetize stolen data in big volumes," said Andrew Komarov, IntelCrawler CEO, in a statement to PCWorld. "It really has a small margin, and it is pretty complicated to resell it in big amounts."

    Due to the amount of records being stolen, cybercriminals are trying to find new ways to generate revenue while not having to rush to get the job done. One such tactic is to directly blackmail the victim, as the hackers already have payment information and email addresses. Another increasing strategy is to cash out stolen accounts by creating fake merchant accounts that can be used with payment processors - a tactic that works until banks and credit card companies are able to cancel the fraudulent activity.

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    Russian malware targets WordPress users, over 100,000 sites infected







    A Russian malware dubbed SoakSoak has infected nearly 100,000 WordPress websites since Sunday, prompting Google to blacklist over 11,000 of those domains (the number is increasing), according to a report from cybersecurity firm Sucuri.
    The malware exploits a previously-known vulnerability in a WordPress plugin called Slider Revolution to modify the file wp-includes/template-loader.php, causing the wp-includes/js/swobject.js to be loaded on every page on the site, which in turn loads the malware from a russian website.
    The malware campaign is targeting WordPress users running Internet Explorer on Windows and is also making use of a number of new backdoor payloads, some of which are being injected into images to further assist evasion while others are being used to inject new administrator users into vulnerable WordPress installs.
    Replacing the aforementioned files is not a permanent solution as it doesn't address the leftover backdoors and initial entry points, the report notes. The only way to remove the infection is to make sure that the Slider Revolution plugin you are using is up to date, although Sucuri says it won’t be easy.
    “The biggest issue is that the RevSlider plugin is a premium plugin, it’s not something everyone can easily upgrade and that in itself becomes a disaster for website owners,” the report said, adding that some websites don’t even know they have the plugin as it’s been bundled into their themes.
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    Eric Schmidt: NSA Revelations Made Google More Secure Than Ever

    A little more than a year ago, we found out from the Snowden documents that Google's internal network has been hacked by the National Security Agency, which meant that everything that went through the company's servers was up for grabs by the NSA.
    At the time, Google's executives and engineers became infuriated, and they set out to drastically improve the company's security. Only a few months later, the company announced that data would now be encrypted at rest, so even if some malicious attackers tap into their networks, they can only get encrypted data.
    At a recent conference, Eric Schmidt, Google's Chairman, said that the NSA hacking news shocked him as well, and that because of that hack and all the other revelations, foreigners now trust U.S. tech companies less with their data. He also said that after Google's security fixes and improvements, the company's cloud is now the safest place to keep your data.
    Going by Google's past track record with adopting modern security policies, that's likely to be true. However, even if it is "the safest place" to keep your data, that still doesn't necessarily make Google "NSA-proof." Google believed its data was safe before, too, and then we found out from an NSA whistleblower that in fact the NSA had full access to Google and its users' information.


    Granted, at the time Google was expecting attackers such as random individual hackers or at worst, the Chinese government (which also hacked some of its servers in 2010). The company did not expect that its own government, which could have local physical access to its network cables, would try to hack it.
    Schmidt tried to emphasize that Google's priorities, in terms of security, are aligned with those of its users:
    "Google's job is [to] build stuff that delights customers. When governments illegally invade their privacy, that's like a negative. It's easy to understand why we'd make these systems stronger."
    Government backdoors are also a bad idea, according to Schmidt:
    "It'd be great, if you're the government, to have a trap door, but how do we at Google know that the other governments are not taking over the trap door from you?" said Schmidt.
    Here, Schmidt was repeating what many security experts have been saying for a long time -- building a backdoor for anyone, even for the US government, means building a backdoor for everyone, because anyone could eventually learn about it and exploit it (potentially in secret and for many years before discovered).
    Google backed Eric Schmidt's words earlier this year when it implemented default encryption for all devices that would come with Android 5.0 installed by default.
    The task of securing its services is far from over, though. Earlier this year, Google promised an End-to-End encryption extension for Gmail, but so far there haven't been any other updates on that project. Also, while highly popular chat app competitors are adopting end-to-end encryption left and right, Google's Hangouts has yet to do the same.



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    The Pirate Bay shutdown hasn't affected torrent traffic




    Last week, Swedish police raided a data center used to host The Pirate Bay, shutting down the popular torrent website in the process. Although the website hasn't made a comeback as yet, data obtained by TorrentFreak shows that the raid hasn't had much of an effect.
    The website obtained traffic information from one of the most popular torrent trackers on the web, Demonii; the very same tracker that was used on The Pirate Bay. Aside from a very minor dip on the days around The Pirate Bay's takedown, the amount of connections per minute to Demonii has stayed relatively stable across the past few weeks.
    At the start of this week, the tracker's traffic was back up to the standard 25 million connections per minute mark. The operator of Demonii speculates that the traffic hasn't been affected significantly because there are many other sites out there that contain the same selection of torrents as The Pirate Bay. When the website went down, users simply switched over to other services.
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    Swedish ISP refuses Pirate Bay block order

    Over the past decade, the tactics used to tackle piracy by copyright lobby groups and copyright holders have changed dramatically. What once saw them taking individual sharers to court and ruining their lives through bankruptcy and more, now has them getting sites blocked by Internet Service Providers, making it a little bit harder for the uninitiated to find their favourite torrent site. Most of the time the ISPs roll over too, as there isn’t much incentive for them to fight a protracted legal battle over one site. However in Sweden, ISP Bredbandsbolaget has denied a block order, stating that it believes there is no legal precedent for it.
    The lawsuit was filed by Universal Music, Sony Music, Warner Music, Nordisk Film and the Swedish Film Industry back in November, and alleges that Bredbandsbolaget is responsible for the illegal downloading of some of its customers. The solution offered by those same studios and lobby groups is that the ISP block The Pirate Bay – despite the site currently being down – and Swedish sharing site, Swefilmer.
    Bredbandsbolaget’s response has been pretty simple. It doesn’t agree with the blocking of content and doesn’t believe there is a legal reason for it to do so.
    “Bredbandsbolaget’s role is to provide its subscribers with access to the Internet, thereby contributing to the free flow of information and the ability for people to reach each other and communicate,” the company said in a statement.

    If Universal continues with its suit, Bredbandsbolaget’s mascot will just call in DragonZord
    It went to state that its job as an ISP was to provide open access to the internet to its customers and that it has no “legal obligation” to block sites or content. It even went so far as to suggest the lobby groups try a different tactic with its tackling of copyright infringement:
    “There are other legal means to stop infringement of rights, but there is no provision in Swedish law that forces an Internet provider to block its subscribers’ access to services and content.”
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    Avenging The Pirate Bay Seizure, Anonymous Hacks into Swedish Government Email Accounts

    Infamous online hacktivist group that goes by the name of Anonymous has hacked the email accounts of Swedish government. This hacking attempt is primarily a response to the seizure of The Pirate Bay website by the Swedish police.

    The Pirate Bay attack prompts Anonymous hacking attempts:

    Anonymous has claimed responsibility of having hacked into the Swedish government email accounts along with the government accounts of Israel, Indian, Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico. The hacktivist group has released their email addresses and passwords in plain-text leaving a pretty message too:
    Warning: Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year to all!! Bye :*

    The Pirate Bay – an infamous torrent website sharing copyrighted material such as films, music files, and TV shows for free – and several other torrent websites were taken down last week by a raid by Swedish police. The police seized servers, computers and equipment of the web pirates. However, the site came back up online later the same day shifting domain to Costa Rica. The site had claimed in September of having employed a 21 raid-proof virtual machines that ensure that even when one location is raided, site would be up in no more than a few hours. This was a new cloud technology making website’s servers raid proof by scattering VMs around the globe with cloud-hosting provider.
    Since the attack on the Pirate Bay, Swedish government has been facing a lot of retaliation from several corners of the web. Following the attack, Swedish internet giant Telia was hacked on December 12. Attack on Telia was a typical distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack as a response to the seizure of The Pirate Bay. Swedish government has also faced other hacking attempts following the seizure of Pirate Bay, as the local papers reported.
    These attacks don’t come from nowhere. The Pirate Bay raid has provoked feelings in these groups – TT news agency
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    ICANN hit by spear phishing attack, employee credentials compromised

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    Oops! ICANN employees fall for spear phishing attack, with some employee credentials hit
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    ICANN employees have fallen victim to a suspected spear phishing cyberattack that began in late November 2014, the group confirmed in a blog post. The social engineering attack mimicked emails that closely resembled communications from its own domain and targeted ICANN employees. Unfortunately, the attack was successful and several ICANN staff members had their credentials compromised.


    The compromised credentials were used to access ICANN's Centralized Zone Data System, providing criminals with access to names, postal addresses, email addresses, fax and phone numbers, usernames and passwords. The breach also hits the ICANN GAC Wiki, with only public information accessible to the cybercriminals.

    Earlier in the year, ICANN boosted its cybersecurity, which the group said likely helped keep unauthorized access to a minimum from this attack.



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    The Pirate Bay’s Facebook page disappears

    First the Pirate Bay website itself went down and all its proxies and mirrors with it and now it looks like the torrent site’s official Facebook has been deleted too. It’s not clear at this time whether the admins of the site wilfully pulled it offline or if it was taken down by authorities, but for now at least the page seems to be completely gone.
    Although its 470,000+ fans wasn’t monumental compared to many websites, individuals and organisations around the world, half a million is still sizeable enough to not throw away on a whim. If TPB’s social network presence is gone (and its Twitter seems to have been abandoned, at least for now) it could be further indication that the site is gone forever.

    So long and thanks for all the pirated fish.
    Earlier this week an interview with the admins of the site suggested that they were taking an extended break from operating it and though it would be possible to get it back online, they weren’t sure if it was needed. With the site’s regular users heading to replacements and alternatives, the climate for sharing now is very different from when it was launched over ten years ago.
    Original founder of the site, Peter Sunde, probably wouldn’t be saddened if it stayed down either, as he’s far from a fan of what it has become in recent years.
    As TorrentFreak points out, the Facebook page may have been removed to eliminate further incriminating evidence that could be used in a new criminal investigation the Swedish authorities are said to be undertaking.
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    Chinese OEM Coolpad Installed 'Coolreaper' Backdoor Software On Millions Of Smartphones

    Chinese OEMs are stepping up their game in the smartphone sector. Companies like Huawei and Xiaomi have bolstered their share of the market, with the latter booting Samsung out of first place in China. One Chinese OEM, however, is looking to expand its presence in the smartphone world while at the same time partaking in nefarious acts.
    Palo Alto Networks has discovered that Chinese OEM Coolpad has been installing a backdoor called “CoolReaper” on the millions of smartphones that it sells around the globe. Coolpad has taken additional steps to ensure that its CoolReaper backdoor goes undetected by widely available antivirus programs for the Android operating system.
    Palo Alto Networks’ investigation found that CoolReaper was installed on 24 distinct smartphone models sold by Coolpad, which leaves over 10 million customers open to attacks by malicious third-parties.


    “The CoolReaper backdoor detailed in this report goes well beyond what users might expect, giving Coolpad complete control over the affected devices, hiding the software from antivirus programs, and leaving users unprotected from malicious attackers,” stated Palo Alto Networks’ Ryan Olsen.
    The wide-ranging access granted by CoolReaper includes the ability to download, install, and activate any Android app without user intervention; dial random phone numbers; disable system services and user applications; and upload device information and app usage to Coolpad servers. And this is just the tip of the iceberg; CoolReaper is capable of inflicting even more damage to a customer’s smartphone.
    Other capabilities of CoolReaper include functionality that allows it to push fake over-the-air (OTA) updates to devices and the capability to send or insert arbitrary SMS/MMS messages onto a smartphone.
    Not surprisingly, Coolpad has failed to respond to all requests by Palo Alto Networks for comment on CoolReaper. Coolpad needs to be held accountable for these accusations and if true, customers should respond by taking their business elsewhere as this is a serious breach of consumer privacy.


    Noticia completa:
    http://hothardware.com/news/chinese-...prAAP1zi8kp.99
    http://www.portugal-tech.pt/image.php?type=sigpic&userid=566&dateline=1384876765

 

 
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