“You would think that shutting down software could be fairly simple from an end user’s view. If I ask you to shut it down, would you mind shutting it actually down, please? Well, it’s a bit more complicated than that, because you need to ask the user if they really want to shut down and if unsaved documents should be saved. And that warrants a patent that also covers Mac OS X. Next time you shut down Windows, remember how complicated it is for Windows to shut down. Perhaps that is the reason why this procedure can take minutes in some cases.”

Hundreds of lunchtime customers of a diner in the US city of Memphis are believed to have had funds stolen from their debit and credit cards after PCs at the venue became infected with malware.

Large numbers of customers reported having had funds taken after using Jason’s Deli in recent weeks, which prompted an investigation by the US Secret Service, part of the Department of Homeland Security.

After establishing that staff were not involved, police discovered that a computer system used by to verify credit cards had been infected with unidentified new-variant malware, which had logged and forwarded the data to criminals believed to be in Russia.

“The computers received a virus that was unknown before this event,” said Special Agent Rick Harlow of the US Secret Service in a news conference. “No antivirus program that we ran against it found it,” he said.

Cyber-Criminalss stole $1 million from a satellite campus of The University of Virginia last week.
Kathy Still, director of news and media relations at UVA Wise, declined to offer specifics on the theft, saying only that the school was investigating a hacking incident.

“All I can say now is we have a possible computer hacking situation under investigation,” Still said. “I can also tell you that as far as we can tell, no student data has been compromised.”

Snoop Dogg has teamed up with security firm Symantec to spread the word about how to prevent identity theft and other online crimes.

But, the partnership is not as strange as it may seem.

As a victim of criminals who have set up fake websites using his name, stolen his music and swiped his credit card info, Snoop Dogg is keen to speak out.

Cybercrime can happen to anyone, even legendary rappers, it seems, and Snoop Dogg’s not above hanging about in a New York park with Symantec to rap about it.

That’s how bad things are people…

A crime family, deliberately spreading viruses in Internet and raking in money with sms aid, was detained in Moscow on Tuesday.

The operation on apprehending suspects was carried out by officers of the Moscow economic crime service along with colleagues from the K section with support from specialists of the information security group.

“It was established that the detainees circulated virus programmes via various Internet sites, including social networks, that blocked the operation of customers’ computers,” a source said. Then, the customer was suggested to send an sms-dispatch worth over 300 roubles to a short number so as to get a code to unblock the system.”

According to preliminary calculations, more than 3,000 Internet users fell victims of fraudsters in April alone, including in CIS countries. According to police data, the annual profit of law-breakers topped one billion roubles.

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An Iranian cyber group announced that it has hacked more than 1,000 important governmental websites of the US, Britain and France in protest at their support and financial aids to anti-Iran terrorist groups.
“To commemorate the Day of Campaign against Terrorism and the martyrdom anniversary of (former Iranian President Mohammad Ali) Rajayee and (his Prime Minister Mohammad Javad) Bahonar (by the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization), the group rose to protest at the inhumane measures of the supporters of terrorism, with the US and Britain standing on top of them, through a new method and hacked and changed the pages of more than 1,000 of their websites,” Behrouz Kamalian, Head of the Iranian Ashiyaneh (nest) cyber group, told FNA on Monday.
If you open the hacked sites now, you can see a logo of Iran and some pictures of martyrs Rajaee and Bahonar and a bi-lingual text in Persian and English expressing our group’s protest at the US, Britain and France’s attitude towards terrorism, Kamalian added.
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