One in a growing list of incidents is that of an Indian call-center employee  of London's HSBC who siphoned off close to a half of a million dollars from the banking institution. In this latest case the bank failed to properly verify the new employees background history before hiring him to the call-center.

A simple call to the phone number on his job application would have revealed the employee's false information, as it appears that he gave a bogus phone number, as well as a fake address so they cannot even track the perpetrator.

"But we are protected from hackers..." Are you really?  

Asymmetric forces are facing each other  in the web, a new wave of ideologically aimed attacks is concerning the digital ground.Last operation by Israel Defence Forces that broke into the Gaza strip after a soldier was kidnapped by a Palestinian armed group, provoked a strong reaction in arab world, and digital answer came soon: Hundreds of websites were defaced by Team Evil, a Moroccan hacker crew that posted a message supporting Palestinian counter reaction.

A memory stick lost by an Australian police officer jeopardized an international investigation over a network of phishing frauds led by Russian Mafia.

As a result, personal details of 3500 costumer from 18 banks, including names and account numbers, where lost.
The responsibility of this serious error, is on the AHTCC (Australian High Tech Crime Centre) that misplaced a computer dossier on Russian Mafia phishing scams.
The matter is that this loss represents a huge threat both for bank users whose data are likely to be exposed, and both for the international police team who is investigating on this case, because all the operation has been wasted for the information leak...

Today we celebrate the opening of the long-waited Portuguese version of Zone-H.org. The Portuguese mirror will contain (as all the mirrors by Zone-H's policy) the translated contents of the main Zone-H.org plus a full coverage of security related local news and events.

The Portuguese mirror cybercrime database will be tuned on attacks to portuguese speaking countries and the manager of the website will be Marcelo Almeida, long time member and contributor of the main Zone-H.

The opening of the Portuguese mirror is the first in a long list of almost-ready mirrors we have on the table: in fact, we are completing the cms structure and the editorial staff for: Japan, Germany, Slovenja, Serbja, Slovakia, Poland, Spain, Korea, Turkey and of course, we need volunteers for each of those countries. In theory, we could put online already today all those mirrors but we prefer to hold until we'll be sure to have a stable and reliable staff for each of them. 

But we are soooooooo close.... 

Stockolm – Unbelievable, isn’t it? The closing up of ThePirateBay, the popular P2P Swedish website, was agreed by local Government and Hollywood Studios, as the Internet Community suspected. The issue of Pirate Bay, that has already been reported by Zone-H has come out again after the Swedish newspaper SVT.se published the whole text of a letter that was delivered to the Secretary of State and to the Minister of Justice.

The letter is signed by John G. Malcolm, the director of the MPAA anti-piracy division, who formally expresses his concern about the fact that Sweden has become a sort of “Paradise for International Piracy”.

He gets on hinting at the requests by American Embassy to Swedish Government to stop the activity of ThePirateBay and then he alludes to the fact that Sweden should safeguard national reputation that could be shadowed by the heavy accuse of tolerating with crimes against intellectual property. This was the sparkle that made the fire burst out: ThePirateBay was temporarily closed and the website server was seized...