Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Hackers spied on Iranians using fake Google certs

Computerworld Security: September 05, 2011
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About 300,000 Iranians had their Gmail accounts compromised and their messages
read by hackers, according to a forensics firm that has investigated the theft
of hundreds of digital certificates from a Dutch company.
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IN THIS ISSUE

1. Nearly 300,000 Iranian IP addresses likely compromised
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7548091/818816221/529287/0/

2. Hackers steal SSL certificates for CIA, MI6, Mossad
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7548091/818816221/529288/0/

3. Comodo hacker claims credit for DigiNotar attack
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7548091/818816221/529289/0/

4. Microsoft: Certs can't be used to install malware via Windows Update
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7548091/818816221/529290/0/

5. DHS warns of planned Anonymous attacks
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6. Turkish hackers strike websites with DNS hack
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7. Ex-employee wiped financial data from bikini bar
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Nearly 300,000 Iranian IP addresses likely compromised

Close to 300,000 unique IP addresses from Iran requested access to google.com
using a rogue certificate issued by Dutch digital certificate authority
DigiNotar, according to an interim report by security firm, Fox-IT, released on
Monday.
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Hackers steal SSL certificates for CIA, MI6, Mossad

The tally of digital certificates stolen from a Dutch company in July has
exploded to more than 500, including ones for intelligence services like the
CIA, the U.K.'s MI6 and Israel's Mossad, a Mozilla developer said Sunday.
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Comodo hacker claims credit for DigiNotar attack

The hacker responsible for a stunning attack on a Dutch company that issues
security certificates for websites warned on Monday that he would "strike back
again," after previously breaching another company earlier this year.
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Microsoft: Certs can't be used to install malware via Windows Update

Microsoft said that a digital certificate stolen from a Dutch company could not
be used to force-feed customers malware through its Windows Update service.
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DHS warns of planned Anonymous attacks

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security today issued a somewhat unusual
bulletin warning the security community about the planned activities of hacking
collective Anonymous over the next few months.
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Turkish hackers strike websites with DNS hack

A Turkish hacking group managed to tamper with Internet addressing records over
the weekend, redirecting dozens of websites belonging to companies including
Microsoft, UPS and Vodafone to a different web pages controlled by the hackers.
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Ex-employee wiped financial data from bikini bar

At the Bikinis Sports Bar and Grill in Austin, Texas, you can get burgers and
beer served to you by cute waitresses wearing denim shorts and bikini tops. And
if you're David Palmer, a recently fired IT worker, you can also break into a
U.S. military contractor's computer systems and wipe out payroll files, wreaking
havoc at its customers.
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