Microsoft security researchers have identified critical vulnerabilities in Facebook and Google Picase which led to account compromise and arbitrary code execution.The vulnerability in Facebook was ironically introduced by the company's anti-clickjacking protection deployed earlier this year in response to the ma... |
20 July 2011
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Dropbox has notified around one hundred users that their accounts were accessed by an unauthorized individual who exploited an authentication flaw. Dropbox announced earlier this week that a bug was accidentally introduced by the company's developers during a code update and allowed users to access other people&... |
25 June 2011
06:04 GMT |
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Canadian video game developer BioWare notified 18,000 users who had accounts registered on an old system that their email addresses and passwords were stolen by hackers.The compromised community server, which dates back almost ten years according to the developer, was associated with the forums for Neverwinter Nights... |
16 June 2011
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Comodo has determined that accounts of two more Registration Authorities (RAs) were compromised following the recent incident where a hacker managed to obtain rogue digital certificates for high-profile domains, including Google, Yahoo, Hotmail and Mozilla.The security of the entire public key infrastructure (PKI), w... |
30 March 2011
11:59 GMT |
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Security researchers warn that phishers are becoming more focused in their attacks and have begun targeting regional credit unions.Traditionally phishers have targeted large financial institutions or services in an attempt to reach the highest possible number of potential victims.This is because the success rate of p... |
12 March 2011
03:51 GMT |
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People who analyzed the recently leaked rootkit.com user database warn that the compromise also has implications for accounts on other sites due to password reuse. A week ago, the Anonymous collective hacked into the systems of a security firm called HBGary which threatened to expose its high-ranking members.The grou... |
14 February 2011
03:48 GMT |
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Trapster, an online service which uses crowdsourcing to warn drivers about police speed traps, enforcement cameras and other road hazards, has notified its users that their email addresses and passwords might have been compromised.Trapster allows its users to report and confirm speed traps from a variety of mobile de... |
18 January 2011
08:57 GMT |
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As much as 50,000 iTunes accounts containing credit card details are being sold on TaoBao, the Chinese equivalent of eBay, for prices as low as 1 yuan ($0.15).The sellers advertise the ability to download anything from software to music, games, movies and so on, but warn that the accounts should be used within 24 aft... |
6 January 2011
10:56 GMT |
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Phishers are trying to steal login credentials from Facebook users by spamming them with malicious links through the social network's chat system. The new campaign abusing the Facebook chat feature has been spotted by security researchers from antivirus vendor Trend Micro.The rogue messages coming from compromis... |
17 September 2010
11:34 GMT |
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Security researchers warn that over the weekend over 350 Twitter account were compromised and used to send out spam leading users to a website of a very questionable nature.The tweets can have different messages, but they all seem to advertise a Web address ending in 101.com followed by a seemingly random number.Acco... |
16 August 2010
02:56 GMT |
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The BBC claims to have located a list containing 20,000 webmail login credentials on the same website where similar information about 10,000 Hotmail accounts was recently leaked. In addition, Google announced that it found a separate document containing email logins obtained through an industry-wide phishing attack.T... |
7 October 2009
09:39 GMT |
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