Users who protect their computers using Microsoft’s Security Essentials were alarmed by a warning message that claimed google.com was infected with a piece of malware called Exploit:JS.Blacole.BW, or better known as t... [read more >>] All the world had access to the private pictures of Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder, after a post on a bodybuilding forum revealed to the social network’s customers how they can see the private photographs o... [read more >>] YouTube was plagued by a serious cross-site scripting vulnerability over the weekend. Until Google moved in to pattch it, the bug was abused by unnamed attackers to poison the comments on multiple videos.Rumors of viruses b... [read more >>] Australian broadband news website Whirlpool.net.au was the target of several Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks this morning. The hosting provider moved quickly to mitigate, but attackers evaded the restrictions, ... [read more >>] Security researchers from web integrity monitoring services provider Sucuri warn that a new mass injection attack is targeting websites hosted at BlueHost. The company's own CEO, Matt Heaton, appears to be amongst the ... [read more >>] The UnrealIRCd project administrators announced during the weekend that the Linux installation package for the latest version of the IRC server software contained a trojan. The backdoored source tarball was distributed thro... [read more >>] A Turkish hacker has managed to hijack msn.co.il and hotmail.co.il, two domains belonging to Microsoft, and use them to post a pro-Palestinian message. The name servers and administrative email address for the domains have ... [read more >>] A clickjacking worm that forced hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting Facebook users to unknowingly post spam messages on their profiles, rapidly spread through the social networking website over the weekend. The worm used ... [read more >>] For less than an hour, a Twitter bug allowed users to force others into following them. As word of the hack spread, the panic grew increasingly high, escalating when Twitter temporarily reset everyone's followers count... [read more >>] A group of Romanian hacktivists, who recently defaced two websites associated with The Daily Telegraph as a protest against negative depictions of the Romanian people in the British media, attacked the French newspaper Le M... [read more >>] |