Computer hacking kits for sale on eBay
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Kits that claim to help people hack into computers have been discovered for sale on the auction website eBay.
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Consultants in frame? Definitely Maybe The UK government has published guidelines for the application of a law that makes it illegal to create or distribute so-called "hacking tools".â¦
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Tech-savvy voyeurs are cobbling together DIY infra-red scanners for less-than-noble uses. For every offense, however, there is economic opportunity. From Crave, CNET's gadgets blog.
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Want a computer that screams when  a thief strikes? Or a personal tracking unit in case you get  kidnapped?
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Upcoming chip set will include built-in security features for your PC.
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Blog: Now comes a site for people who want to sell old electronics gear online but don't want to become eBay Power Sellers.
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Web villains post do-it-yourself phishing kits to help any amateur become an online con artist.
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In a twist, security researchers have discovered a group of hackers who are exploiting a new category of victims -- aspiring Internet scammers.A Moroccan group called &quot;Mr. Brain&quot; is offering free phishing kits on a Web site hosted in France, said Paul Mutton, Internet services developer at Netcraft, a security company in Bath, England.The software packages make it easy to quickly set up a fraudulent Web site mimicking a known brand in order to trick people into divulging credit card details or bank account numbers. Templates for spam e-mail are also included, targeting brands such as Bank of America, eBay, PayPal, and HSBC.Mr. Brain&#39;s Web site lists the kits and what kind of details each one is capable of collecting, such as usernames, passwords or Social Security numbers. Netcraft posted screenshots on its Web site.But what the aspiring scammer doesn&#39;t know is that the phishing kits are designed to send any sensitive information that&#39;s collected back to e-mail accounts controlled by Mr. Brain, Mutton said.&quot;Obviously, that&#39;s why they are offering this stuff for free,&quot; Mutton said. &quot;I was impressed by it.&quot;Mr. Brain hides the special e-mail function in a blend of PHP scripts, one of which is encrypted, Mutton said. Just in case someone decrypts it, Mr. Brain has written at the top of the file &quot;Don&#39;t need to change anything here. Created by Mr. Brain Morocco Team.&quot;The scheme seems to be targeted at new phishers, Mutton said. Mr. Brain benefits since other wannabe scammers shoulder the cost and risk of finding an ISP (Internet Service Provider) to host the phishing site, Mutton said.&quot;Essentially, they&#39;re exploiting all these novice phishers -- basically getting them to do all the hard work,&quot; Mutton said.It&#39;s difficult to tell without further research how many of the free phishing kits linked with this latest scam are live on the Internet, but Mutton said Netcraft noticed one earlier this month targeting Bank of America.&quot;Clearly, these are actively being used in phishing attacks,&quot; Mutton said.
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Tool that identifies Web sites pretending to be connected to banks, eBay, etc., could help leave phishing scammers dead in the water.
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Cash'n'Carrion Essential kit for the marauding sysdamin
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Also: High security built right into $100 laptop's OS. Read these stories and more from around the Web at News.com Extra.
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SAN JOSE, Calif.) - Phreaks, spoofers and spammers want to invade your home computer, and the tricks of their trade include airsnarfs, wabbits and fork bombs.
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Science & environment: The auction site has been the target of a hacker called Vladuz, whose actions are causing concern.
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Some Macintosh users have encountered a security program whose function and Web site have the tell-tale signs of a scam.Visitors to the Web site selling the program, called MacSweeper, are offered a free security scan of their computers. The scan, which only works on Macs, highlights supposed security problems with the computers. It offers to remove the problems with the purchase of a $39.99 lifetime subscription.But the awkward English on the program&#39;s Web site, and the way the program operates, have raised doubts over its legitimacy, users and security researchers say.&quot;The imbibed set of features locates all the junk and useless data on your computer and deletes them to reclaim the wasted space,&quot; according to the pitch on MacSweeper&#39;s home page.Security company F-Secure wrote on Tuesday that the program, called MacSweeper, may be the first rogue application for Macs.Windows machines have been more frequently targeted by similar software, sometimes labeled &quot;scareware&quot; since users are warned their computers will be in danger unless they purchase the software. Among the more notorious scareware for PCs is Winfixer, also known by the aliases ErrorSafe, WinAntiVirus, and DriveCleaner.The MacSweeper Web page is hosted on a server in Kiev, Ukraine, said Patrik Runald, security response manager for F-Secure, who is based in Malaysia. Information on the site about MacSweeper&#39;s company, Kiwi Software, has been plagiarized from Symantec&#39;s Web page, Runald said.&quot;They just ripped that information straight off there,&quot; Runald said.The same text is also used on Cleanator.com, which sells a Windows-compatible version of the same kind of program, Runald said. Another security vendor, Sophos, classifies Cleanator as a &quot;potentially unwanted program.&quot;Once MacSweeper is running on a Mac it will often pick odd items, such as language files, and label them as being a privacy risk, Runald said.In at least one instance an F-Secure researcher visited the MacSweeper site and clicked a button labeled &quot;Free scan.&quot; The scan highlighted Mac-related problems, even though the researcher was using a PC.MacSweeper doesn&#39;t use any tricks to get onto a machine other than trying to persuade users to download it, Runald said. Nonetheless, F-Secure typically contacts Finland&#39;s Computer Emergency Response Team when it finds scams such as MacSweeper, Runald said.A user on one of Apple&#39;s discussion boards wrote that their Safari browser kept redirecting to the MacSweeper site, a sign that malicious scripts may be involved.&quot;If I click on anything it&#39;ll try downloading the software,&quot; the person wrote. &quot;How do i get rid of this? It&#39;s really annoying. I don&#39;t want it, and I&#39;d wish it would leave me alone.&quot;
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Crime-fighting "tinkerers" are figuring out how to get all the inside dope about you from your supposedly trusted gadget
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Some websites are now offering surfers the chance to download free &quot;phishing kits&quot; containing all the graphics, web code and text required to construct the kind of bogus sites used in internet phishing scams.