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Stories about: account registration

Facebook's Inner Workings Facilitate Impersonation Bloggers from TechCrunch have created a fake profile of Google's CEO Eric Schmidt in order to point out a possible security issue stemming from the way Facebook works.The interesting aspect about this proof-of-concept attack is the use of an email address belonging to the victim during registration, even though ... 11 October 2010 03:54 GMT Zbot Pushers Abuse ImageShack Email Template Security researchers warn of a new spam campaign directing users to compromised website distributing the Zbot trojan. The spammers are attempting to pass the rogue messages as official account registration notifications coming from ImageShack.It seems that attackers copied the real ImageShack account registration con... 26 July 2010 07:58 GMT Spammers Break Microsoft's Revamped CAPTCHA Researchers from web security vendor Websense have documented a new hotmail account creation attack, which is able to successfully solve the new CAPTCHA system redesigned by Microsoft at the end of 2008 in order to address previous abuse. CAPTHCA stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers a... 16 February 2009 05:50 GMT