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Major Security Hole Discovered on Facebook and MySpace

A Web developer has documented a proof-of-concept attack that could have been used to hijack accounts and steal private information on Facebook and MySpace. The attack leveraged a serious security oversight in XML configuration files used to define the cross-domain access policy for Flash applications.The discovery was made while 24-years-old Dutch Web developer Yvo Schaap tried to find a workaround to a problem he was having with one of his Facebook applications. “I found a solution to one of my function limitations. Surprisingly, when looked into more carefully my solution allowed full access and control to the Facebook user account... [read more >>]

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Two Men Accused of Hacking Their Former Employer's Computers

Two former employees of an engine parts distributor have been indicted for accessing the company's computer syste...
On 6 Nov 2009, 15:39 GMT [ more >> ]

Major Security Hole Discovered on Facebook and MySpace

A Web developer has documented a proof-of-concept attack that could have been used to hijack accounts and steal privat...
On 6 Nov 2009, 13:08 GMT [ more >> ]

Attack Hits Swedish Signals Intelligence Agency's Website

The website of the Swedish National Defence Radio Establishment (Forsvarets Radioanstalt) has been the target of a pro...
On 6 Nov 2009, 09:41 GMT [ more >> ]

Major SSL Flaw Was Being Patched in Secret

A serious design flaw in the SSL and TLS protocols has been kept secret since its discovery in August. Major technolog...
On 5 Nov 2009, 15:40 GMT [ more >> ]

Gumblar Crashes WordPress and Joomla Websites

Independent security researcher Denis Sinegubko has recently stumbled upon a new version of the Gumblar Web botnet tha...
On 5 Nov 2009, 15:36 GMT [ more >> ]

M86 Security Acquires Finjan

M86 Security has announced the acquisition of cloud-based Web security provider Finjan. The vendor's products and...
On 5 Nov 2009, 11:39 GMT [ more >> ]

Prevx Leads the Fight Against Online Banking Trojans

Prevx, one of the pioneers of cloud-based antivirus solutions, has launched a new product that is able to protect onli...
On 4 Nov 2009, 14:51 GMT [ more >> ]

Cable Modem Hacker Accused of Facilitating Computer Fraud

Federal authorities have indicted Ryan Harris, an embedded device hacker, for aiding computer intrusion and facilitati...
On 3 Nov 2009, 11:54 GMT [ more >> ]

Malwarebytes: IObit Stole Our Signatures Database

Malwarebytes accuses Chinese antivirus vendor IObit of stealing its intellectual property and threatens to pursue lega...
On 3 Nov 2009, 08:56 GMT [ more >> ]

U.S. Department of Defense Will Consider Open-Source Solutions

While open-source software and applications have been providing a generous and efficient way to replace proprietary so...
On 2 Nov 2009, 15:13 GMT [ more >> ]

Cyberspies Infiltrate the Swiss Foreign Ministry

The Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) has been the target of cyber-espionage. According to an officia...
On 2 Nov 2009, 14:45 GMT [ more >> ]

P2P Leak Exposes Ethics Committee Investigations

A confidential report from the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct of the United States House of Representative...
On 2 Nov 2009, 11:28 GMT [ more >> ]

Former YouSendIt CEO Accused of Attacking the Company

Khalid Shaikh, co-founder and former CEO of YouSendIt, was indicted last week for allegedly attacking the company'...
On 2 Nov 2009, 10:15 GMT [ more >> ]

DDoS Attacks Cripple Swedish Police Website

Two distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have rendered the website of the Swedish police and many others inacc...
On 31 Oct 2009, 11:08 GMT [ more >> ]

E-Crime: The Halloween Special

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On 31 Oct 2009, 09:40 GMT [ more >> ]

OpenDNS Blocks Ebay.co.uk as Phishing Site

Internet users resolving DNS requests through the OpenDNS were not able to access pages on the Ebay UK website yesterd...
On 30 Oct 2009, 15:24 GMT [ more >> ]

Malicious Emails Claim Facebook Passwords Were Reset

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On 30 Oct 2009, 12:10 GMT [ more >> ]

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