Blog Posts Tagged with "The Lords of Dharmaraja"
Remote Attack Code for Symantec's pcAnywhere in the Wild
February 23, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"A surprising amount of the core code originates from... 10 years ago with only a few added changes, mainly to accommodate changes in Windows versions. Many individual .exe or other files include an accompanying Word document with a detailed developer description of how it functions.."
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Did the 2006 Symantec Breach Expose RSA's SecurID?
February 10, 2012 Added by:Kevin McAleavey
The Symantec leak could pose a risk to RSA's SecurID. Examination of the source code for PCAnywhere turned up something disturbing - numerous header files and several libraries belonging to RSA, and SecurID code is part of the exposed PCAnywhere product source code...
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Symantec Source Code Leak: The Real Elephant in the Room
February 08, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
Everyone is all over the fact that the Symantec code had been hacked back in 2006 right? I have not seen anything about the real elephant in the room. Where has the code been lo’ these many years? Who had it? Who hacked Symantec in the first place? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
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Symantec: Emails Part of Law Enforcement Sting Operation
February 07, 2012 Added by:Anthony M. Freed
"The e-mail string posted by YamaTough was actually between them and... law enforcement. YamaTough actually reached out to us, first, saying that if we provided them with money, they would not post any more source code. At that point... it was a clear cut case of extortion..."
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Update: Alleged Source Code Thieves Attempt to Extort Symantec
February 06, 2012 Added by:Anthony M. Freed
Anonymous-aligned hacker YamaTough, the spokesperson for the hacktivist group “The Lords of Dharmaraja”, falsely accused Symantec of attempting to bribe the group in order to prevent the release of source code for the company's PCanywhere product, among others...
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Did Symantec's 2006 Breach Impact These High Risk Customers?
February 01, 2012 Added by:Jeffrey Carr
As the world's largest vendor of security software, the breach puts all of its corporate and government customers at risk, because if Symantec didn't know the extent of its breach back then, how do Symantec's customers know that their current product line is safe to use?
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Symantec: Too Many Doubts - Disable pcAnywhere Software
January 26, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
"At this time, Symantec recommends disabling the product until Symantec releases a final set of software updates that resolve currently known vulnerability risks," Symantec said in the white paper...
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pcAnywhere Source from 2006 Still Alive and Kicking
January 26, 2012 Added by:Keith Mendoza
Even if a complete software rewrite is done, it's not really a complete rewrite. Someone in the development team--usually the person who was working on the last version before the so-called rewrite--will copy parts of code from the old source code...
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The 2006 Theft of Symantec's Source Code - Response and Repercussions
January 26, 2012 Added by:Jeffrey Carr
Symantec has acknowledged that source code for multiple products was stolen in 2006. The worst part is that Symantec was clueless about the theft of its own source code for almost six years, which means that thousands of customers were clueless as well...
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Cyber Espionage: A Buzzword-Term Often Overused
January 23, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
The Cuckoo’s Egg”, which happened in 1986, is the first "documented” case of computer espionage that is not classified. Cliff Stoll was asked to look into an accounting error on a University system and ended up finding and tracking an asset for the KGB...
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Symantec: The Inconvenient Truth Behind the Data Breach
January 17, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
Initially, Symantec spokesman Cris Paden said the hackers had stolen only the source code of Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0 and Symantec AntiVirus 10.2, minimizing the seriousness of the breach. The situation has now changed dramatically...
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Symantec Hacked in 2006? Claim Raises More Questions
January 17, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Symantec now claims that the company's own networks were in fact breached back in 2006, leading to the loss of proprietary product data: "...an investigation into the matter had revealed that the company's networks had indeed been compromised"...
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Hacker to Release Symantec's PCAnywhere Source Code
January 16, 2012 Added by:Anthony M. Freed
YamaTough, spokesperson for the hacktivist group “The Lords of Dharmaraja”, informed Infosec Island of plans to release source code for Symantec's PCAnywhere. The release is to be made prior to the threatened exposure of the full source code for the Norton antivirus...
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First Documented Case of Cyber Espionage?
January 15, 2012 Added by:Richard Stiennon
Thanks to a hacker group in India, Infosec Island has source material that demonstrates wide spread cyber espionage on the part of the Indian Government which the hackers may publish. This is a historically significant development for those of us who track cyber espionage...
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Exclusive: Interview With Hacker YamaTough
January 13, 2012 Added by:Anthony M. Freed
Update: “The Lords of Dharmaraja” claim to have released the source code for Symantec's Norton Utilities as was threatened earlier today. The alleged data dump has not been confirmed, and company officials have not yet released a statement. Exclusive interview with YamaTough here...
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The Lords of Dharmaraja Faked Indian Gov't Memo
January 12, 2012 Added by:Jeffrey Carr
I compared the emails in the .bat archive of Mr. Reinsch with emails allegedly collected through RINOA SUR against multiple USCC commissioners and they were identical, either a tremendous coincidence or evidence that YamaTough has invented this entire scandal...
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