Trend Micro Adds Social Networking Protection to Titanium 2013

Trend Micro released the new line of Titanium products for 2013. The focus in this release is on user’s social online activity.

As such, the company integrated a security component for social networks that works across multiple online services: Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, MySpace and Pinterest. This allows the user to share information with their friends whenever Trend Micro identifies a malicious link.

Entry-level security has been turned up a notch as Trend Micro expands the list of features for Titanium Antivirus + by adding protection on WiFi hotspots, spam blocking capabilities and search result scanning.

The more expensive solutions integrate parental controls, PC optimization (Titanium Internet Security), DirectPass password manager, SafeSync cloud storage with 5GB free and protection across multiple devices, mobile included (Titanium Maximum). Premium edition includes five licenses and a total of 25GB of SafeSync storage.

Full compatibility with Windows 8 is also among the highlights.

Jewish Agency Website Hacked

Jewish Agency Website Hacked



JERUSALEM -- The Jewish Agency's website was attacked by unknown hackers.

The wave of attacks began Septembers 7 and continued through the weekend, the organization said in a statement released Tuesday.

The attacks, which made the web site temporarily unavailable for short times, came from across the globe, including Russia, Hungary, Saudi Arabia, Brazil and Austria, according to the Jewish Agency.

After concern that data stored on the site could be affected, the Chief Information Officer of the Jewish Agency, Dov Yahav, on September 8 decided to shut down the web site to external users.

After upgrading the site’s security capabilities, it returned to normal operation on Sunday.

Pirate Bay Founder Held In New Hacking Probe

Pirate Bay Founder Held In New Hacking Probe



Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, who faces a year-long prison sentence for promoting copyright infringement, was detained on new computer hacking suspicions when he landed in Sweden on Tuesday morning.
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According to a statement issued on Tuesday by the Swedish Prosecution Authority (Åklagarmyndigheten), Warg is suspected of having hacked into the Swedish Tax Agency (Skatteverket) as well as Swedish IT firm Logica, which supplies services to the agency.

"During a preliminary investigation concerning computer hacking at the company Logica and the Swedish Tax Agency during the spring, suspicions were directed at one person, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg," the Prosecution Authority wrote.

The agency added, however, that Warg's August 30th arrest in Cambodia and subsequent deportation from the country on Monday were due to an arrest warrant issued for him in relation to his conviction in the Pirate Bay trial.

Shortly after Warg's arrest, reports emerged that he was wanted in an investigation into a hacker attack against Logica and the tax agency.

According to a September 6th report in the Dagens Nyheter (DN) newspaper, the attacks gave the hackers access to a sizeable amount of protected personal information.

The attack is believed to have started in 2010 and continued until April of this year.

Warg, and his fellow co-founders Fredrik Neij and Peter Sunde, as well as financier Carl Lundström, were all convicted in 2009 of facilitating copyright infringement and ordered to pay 46 million kronor ($6.9 million) in damages to the music and movie industry.

While Neij, Sunde, and Lundström all had their 12-month sentences reduced to between four and 10 months on appeal in late 2010, Warg did not attend his appeal hearing and his one-year sentence was upheld.

Prosecutors now have until Friday to issue a remand order for Warg related to the new computer hacking suspicions.

Hackers Stole Apple Data From US Company, Not FBI

Hackers Stole Apple Data From US Company, Not FBI

A US company says that its files - not an FBI agent's laptop - were hacked by a renegade group that released Apple product identification data it claimed to have obtained through a breach of the law enforcement agency.

"We want to apologise, announce what happened and set the record straight," said Paul DeHart, chief executive of software company BlueToad.

FBI spokesman Paul Bresson confirmed that "it certainly does appear that BlueToad was where the information was actually compromised."

BlueToad hosts more than 5,000 worldwide publications including consumer magazines and business documents, and creates apps for its clients. DeHart said the company experiences about 1,000 unsuccessful break-in attempts a day.

DeHart said his company realised it had been hacked soon after the group "AntiSec," an affiliate of Anonymous, posted a file on the internet with the identification numbers for what it claimed were 12 million Apple devices on September 3.

Anonymous is one of several loosely affiliated hacking groups that take credit for breaking into government security agencies and major corporations worldwide.

"A third party reached out to us who was examining the list that was on the internet and said, 'Hey, we see some connections to you guys,'" DeHart said.

He said his company is cooperating fully with the FBI. For security reasons, he declined to provide details of how they confirmed the data file came from his company.

"We haven't tied it to a person at least as of yet ... but we were able to figure out essentially what happened, tied to a lot of things and we've passed that information on (to the FBI)," DeHart said.

He said fewer than two million device IDs were obtained by the hackers rather than the 12 million the group claimed. He said his company, which does not collect private information such as Social Security numbers or credit card information, plugged the hole in its security system and has hired a national security firm to perform a complete security analysis.

"The attack that we got was pretty sophisticated, pretty determined," he said.

DeHart said his company hosts time-embargoed and time-sensitive content that could make it a target of hackers. He also speculated that whoever posted the data on the internet might have been acting out of a grudge against a hosted publisher, or might be trying to establish their bona fides among the well-known hacking groups.

The Apple ID numbers, called unique device identifiers or UDIDs, are a sequence of letters and numbers assigned to Apple products, such as iPhones or iPads. Many web-based mobile applications and gaming networks use UDIDs to identify users.

Marc Maiffret, chief technology officer of security firm BeyondTrust, said the data dump itself, while serious, would not prove to be very damaging to consumer privacy, and would not allow hackers to break into peoples' iPhones.

Domino's India Web Site Hacked | Customer Data Leaked

Domino's India Web Site Hacked | Customer Data Leaked

The Indian Web site of pizza retailer Domino was hacked by a Turkish group, which leaked information from about 37,000 accounts online. The data included names, phone numbers, email addresses, and passwords.

In a report Tuesday by the Business Standard, the culprits behind the breach called themselves the Turkish Ajan Hacker Group.

The hack was done via SQL injection method and remote file inclusion, one of the most common methods for stealing private data from web databases, according to the news agency. The news daily explained that through this, the site's database is tricked into revealing data that should be hidden by ‘injecting’ certain commands.

The news follows a recent spate of hacking of company Web sites in India. In May, electricity company AP Power Generation had its site hacked by hacktivist group Anonymous. In March, the government revealed that 112 of its sites had been breached in the first three months of the year.