Archive for August, 2007
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
Organisations should not take it for granted that their million dollar cybersecurity solution makes them invincible against hackers.This is because employees within the organisation could be more of a threat than any outsider, said the EC-Council, an organisation that advocates ethical hacking.
Sanjay Bavisi, its president, said incidents of insider hacking has been on the rise in the United States this past year.
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Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
Phishing email directs one to website which looks exactly like gmail login screen.
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Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
He was enjoying a “dirty” weekend while his wife was away.
He was cocooned in a hotel room with his mistress, blissfully unaware that the game was up.
When he returned home here on Monday, his wife was waiting — with the divorce papers.
The man, who thought he had covered his tracks, had not reckoned with software which can hack into mobile phones.
His wife had enlisted the help of a “black hacker” to listen to her husband’s intimate conversations with his mistress.
According to Sanjay Bavisi, president of the International Council of E-Commerce Consultants, the RM700 software helped nab the husband.
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Monday, August 20th, 2007
A two-day outage that left millions of Skype users unable to use the popular Internet phone call program was caused by an abnormally high number of restarts after a routine software update, the company said Monday.The worldwide outage, which began on Thursday and ended on Saturday, left millions of Skype users unable to log on to make phone calls or send instant messages.
Luxembourg-based Skype, part of online auction giant eBay Inc, has more than 220 million users in total but typically has 5 million to 6 million users online at any given time. In January, Skype reported that it had counted 9 million users online at one time.
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