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Malicious hackers are producing easy to use tools that automate attacks to cash in on a boom in hi-tech crime.
On sale, say security experts, are everything from individual viruses to comprehensive kits that let budding cyber thieves craft their own attacks.
At the top end of the scale are tools like the notorious MPack which costs up to USD1000.
Written by pinolobu on September 5th, 2007 with no comments.
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The Pentagon on Tuesday said computer hackers gained access to an unclassified e-mail system in the office of Defense Secretary Robert Gates, but declined comment on a report that the Chinese army was responsible.
The security breach occurred late last spring when Defense Department monitors detected the penetration of “elements of an unclassified e-mail system” that was immediately taken off line, Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman told reporters.
The e-mail system, located in the office of the secretary of defense, did not return to full operation for up to three weeks.
Written by pinolobu on September 5th, 2007 with no comments.
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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.
Written by pinolobu on August 22nd, 2007 with no comments.
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Phishing email directs one to website which looks exactly like gmail login screen.
Written by pinolobu on August 21st, 2007 with no comments.
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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.
Written by pinolobu on August 21st, 2007 with no comments.
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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.
Written by pinolobu on August 20th, 2007 with no comments.
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Passwords are entered according to image categories you choose. The images rotate, hence passwords will change all the time.
Written by pinolobu on July 16th, 2007 with no comments.
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Google acquired security company Greenborder for an undisclosed amount on 11th May 2007. Probably Google antivirus is on its way and could make make its entrance on the next Google pack. Some people say it’s another chess move on the long journey towards knocking Microsoft Windows off the OS pedestal.
Written by pinolobu on July 4th, 2007 with no comments.
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No, you won’t get viruses simply by viewing videos via youtube’s website, but rather the person who uploaded the video could use the video page to trick you into going to another website and infecting yourself. news.com reported on 2nd July 2007 that a Grand Theft Auto Hood Life mod video is being used to do this.
Chris Boyd (Director of Malware Research at FaceTime Security Labs) said:
- the graphics in the mod are of low quality: the images used in the video are at least 20 years old and definitely not in the same leagues as graphics in the game, but amazingly more than 50 people have downloaded it.
- once the file is downloaded and installed, your PC will hang (freeze). Upon rebooting the PC, the virus will be activated.
Apparently, this is the 2nd time youtube has been used to distribute malware. Last month, the Zlob adware trojan horse was distributed via fake video links. It appears as porn adware, then installs to try find and steal data. It was reported that the only way to deal with the risk to wait for YouTube’s tech support to delete the links, which could take hours, and hours means plenty of time for damage to be done.
Written by pinolobu on July 4th, 2007 with no comments.
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parisexposed.com, that opportunistic attempt to make money off Paris Hilton’s personal belongings has no encryption whatsoever on its signup page:
Sign up at your peril!
Tags: web, security, encryption, SSL
Written by pinolobu on January 31st, 2007 with no comments.
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