Incidents  

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  • By Lucian Constantin
  • August 31st, 2009
UK Parliament Website Hacked

UK Parliament Website Hacked

Administrative passwords stored in plain text

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  • By Lucian Constantin
  • August 31st, 2009
Fake NCUA Infected CDs Sent by Penetration Testers

Fake NCUA Infected CDs Sent by Penetration Testers

The security assessment company calls the exercise a success

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  • By Lucian Constantin
  • August 29th, 2009
Apache.org Compromised by Hackers

Apache.org Compromised by Hackers

Rogue scripts uploaded and executed on the primary servers

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  • By Lucian Constantin
  • August 25th, 2009
Over 62,000 New URLs Serving Exploit Cocktail

Over 62,000 New URLs Serving Exploit Cocktail

Vulnerable visitors get infected with backdoors and info stealing trojans

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  • By Lucian Constantin
  • August 25th, 2009
Webalizer Bug Possibly Leading to Mass Web Compromise

Webalizer Bug Possibly Leading to Mass Web Compromise

Almost thirty thousand URLs infected

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  • By Lucian Constantin
  • August 24th, 2009
AT&T and T-Mobile Identity Theft Gang Indicted

AT&T and T-Mobile Identity Theft Gang Indicted

For acquiring devices using stolen customer information

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • August 22nd, 2009
Facebook Hackers Refuse to Give Up

Facebook Hackers Refuse to Give Up

Eleven new Facebook infected apps sprung out in the past week

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • August 21st, 2009
Kaspersky Antivirus Crash Vulnerable

Kaspersky Antivirus Crash Vulnerable

DOS exploit found in Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 and Kaspersky AntiVirus 2010

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • August 19th, 2009
Australian ISPs Battle DDOS Attack

Australian ISPs Battle DDOS Attack

Two major Australian ISPs suffer under unknown DDOS attacker

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • August 17th, 2009
Two Facebook Phishing Attacks in One Day

Two Facebook Phishing Attacks in One Day

Two distinct attacks using Facebook applications

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • August 11th, 2009
Campaign Monitor Services Under Attack

Campaign Monitor Services Under Attack

Email marketing firm crippled by hack-and-spam attacks

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  • By Lucian Constantin
  • August 7th, 2009
Mass Defacement of U.S. House of Representatives Websites

Mass Defacement of U.S. House of Representatives Websites

Default passwords serve as point of entry

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  • By Lucian Constantin
  • August 7th, 2009
Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LiveJournal Hit to Silence Blogger

Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LiveJournal Hit to Silence Blogger

Sign of a massively coordinated distributed denial of service attack

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  • By Lucian Constantin
  • August 5th, 2009
Gawker Media Websites Hit by DDoS

Gawker Media Websites Hit by DDoS

The Consumerist blog was the intended target

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  • By Lucian Constantin
  • August 1st, 2009
Team Elite Retaliate Against Newspapers Denigrating Them

Team Elite Retaliate Against Newspapers Denigrating Them

XSS bugs revealed in Daily Express and The Telegraph websites

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  • By Lucian Constantin
  • July 22nd, 2009
MI5 and WHO Websites Compromised

MI5 and WHO Websites Compromised

Vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks

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  • By Lucian Constantin
  • July 21st, 2009
Victims of Malware-Related, Fraudulent Bank Transfers Increase in Number

Victims of Malware-Related, Fraudulent Bank Transfers Increase in Number

As a result of banking trojans being installed on their computers

 
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