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Security experts at TrendMicro have discovered at least 1,300 public Google Reader pages infected with a new Koobface type of attack. Hackers have employed Google Reader accounts to host links redirecting users to a Koobface infected page.Attackers employed Google Reader's possibility to share links and messages... |
10 November 2009
09:20 GMT |
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SQL injections are ranked as the top vulnerability that hackers tend to go after, in a report by the Web Application Security Consortium (WASC). Hackers went, in the first half of 2009, after social and media websites, due to their large user pools and public exposure. A large number of incidents was recorded for th... |
20 August 2009
07:43 GMT |
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Representatives from two Australian ISPs, aaNet and EFTel, have admitted tackling a DDOs attack for about two weeks. The attack has been carried out on both companies, limiting normal Internet access for most users. On a forum post, EFTel and aaNet common representative Jason M. has announced that the recent lag in ... |
19 August 2009
09:15 GMT |
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Facebook was the target of two independent and non-related phishing attacks through its applications service. Two security experts discovered, investigated and reported these attacks to the social network's admins, who took all the protection measures. The first one was reported by Christopher Boyd and was an a... |
17 August 2009
08:48 GMT |
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Australian-based email marketing firm Campaign Monitor was subjected to a prolonged hack-and-spam attack during the last four days. In a post on the official blog, website representative Matthew Patterson admitted that the service was facing a complex and well-planned intrusion from an unknown source.The attack start... |
11 August 2009
09:16 GMT |
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According to the monthly reports issued by Symantec Corporation, State of Spam and State of Phishing, spam email has dropped 8% since last month, while phishing attacks have increased by a staggering 52% during July. The majority of spam topics continued to deal with Barack Obama’s political issues and the deat... |
10 August 2009
05:53 GMT |
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Karl Lagerfeld was never known in the fashion industry for his delicate manners or consideration of other people’s feelings, which could be why he lasted so long as to make history, some believe. Still, his attacks on model Heidi Klum, dating back to February this year, are as uncalled for as they are misinform... |
15 June 2009
09:07 GMT |
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They say poodles are amongst the cuddliest dog breeds there are, with few exceptions. However, former French President Jacques Chirac would tell an entirely different story, after being rushed to the hospital following a “vicious attack” of his pet Maltese, Sumo. Sumo, it should be noted, has been sufferi... |
23 January 2009
05:55 GMT |
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According to a report from the Financial Times, the unclassified network of the White House has been compromised on several occasions by Chinese hackers. The attackers intercepted and downloaded data circulating on the network, like e-mail conversations between officials.The attacks were brief, but long enough to all... |
10 November 2008
09:10 GMT |
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BusinessWeek has just joined a group of highly rated and visited websites that fell victims to SQL injection attacks. Graham Cluley, Senior Technology Consultant for the security company Sophos, disclosed that parts of the website of the popular weekly magazine were attempting to serve malware from a Russian server.S... |
16 September 2008
09:10 GMT |
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Microsoft released last week an advisory and a security update for a critical vulnerability in Media Encoder 9 ActiveX as part of their Patch Tuesday (September 9). Not long after this vulnerability became public knowledge, a PoC (Proof of Concept) exploit was posted on Milw0rm and attacks based on it started to be d... |
16 September 2008
06:36 GMT |
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Akamai Technologies has released a report regarding “the state of the Internet” for the second quarter of 2008, and it lists Japan as being the primary source of attack traffic, followed by US and China. According to the report, in the second quarter of 2008, Japan accounted for 30% of the total global at... |
10 September 2008
11:19 GMT |
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Organizations focusing on tracking the evolution of security threats are reporting that, over the last three months, the dimension of botnets has increased about four times. “During the same time period, there isn't an appreciable increase in new malware, new viruses or anything that would obviously indica... |
3 September 2008
04:12 GMT |
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Celebrities have always been some of the most popular subjects on the web and spammers know it. That's why an important percentage of their attacks actually rely on celebrities, lots of messages promising hot pictures with Paris Hilton, Angelina Jolie and many other stars. However, the purpose of these emails is... |
26 May 2008
06:48 GMT |
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Websites are hacked every once in a while, especially due to software vulnerabilities or weak security measures, so it shouldn't be too surprising to see such a compromised page over the web. However, a new website has just got infested with adult content as hackers managed to break into the servers and got acce... |
21 May 2008
05:36 GMT |
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Five members reportedly from the D.O.M. Team hacking group got busted in Spain as part of an investigation of the local police, FOXNews.com informed today. According to the report, two of the suspects were minors, aged 16. "The others are 19 or 20," the same publication adds. It seems like the group of websites attac... |
19 May 2008
03:02 GMT |
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Colonel Charles Williamson III wrote an interesting piece published in the Armed Forces Journal, admitting to the fact that a potential botnet designed especially to protect the United States of America computers would be extremely useful for the nation, because it would help reject attacks launched from any region o... |
13 May 2008
03:58 GMT |
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Hacking attacks usually cause technical damage, meaning that attackers manage to break into the systems and steal or access certain information. Unfortunately, there are cases when such hack attacks prove to be really harming and people suffer because of them. Such an attack occurred at the Easter weekend when hacker... |
8 May 2008
05:30 GMT |
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Last week, the University of Colorado at Boulder officials said that three of their computers were hacked and information of about 9,000 students and 500 employees was put in danger. According to various reports, the university administrators spotted the attack only when the computers restarted themselves without any... |
8 May 2008
04:42 GMT |
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The social networks out there, no matter if we're talking about Facebook, Bebo, Orkut, MySpace or others, recorded hack/spyware/spam attacks every once in a while, especially due to their increasing popularity. And like this wouldn't be enough, Kaspersky Lab predicts a tough fight for these social networks ... |
7 May 2008
06:44 GMT |
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Hacking computers has always been an illegal activity and, even if attackers risked harsh punishments, they continued to launch attacks on computers from all over the world. However, some of them get caught and once it happens, they probably regret all they did during their hacking "job". This is the case of a Nigeri... |
6 May 2008
10:27 GMT |
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We've seen a lot of phishing scams in the recent few weeks and it seems like this avalanche of attacks is not even close to its end. The NSW Fraud Squad officers today warned the Sydney residents that a phone phishing scam attempts to lure them into disclosing private information such as financial details and ba... |
30 April 2008
09:58 GMT |
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Exam cheating may get a new sense in the near future because this unfair way to get high grades at school tests evolves and brings out new techniques. If until now students struggled to create all sorts of cheat sheets, they are now moving further to high-end technology: hacking attacks. According to AP, six students... |
30 April 2008
05:14 GMT |
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The evolution of a lawsuit between News Corp. and DISH Network Corp. reveals shocking details which took place in the past, although nobody would ever expect such a thing from a large corporation like News Corp. To be more specific, a computer hacker who testified a few days ago revealed that he was hired by News Cor... |
24 April 2008
09:09 GMT |
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With the Beijing Olympics quickly approaching, both hackers and athletes are getting ready for the sports competition. Unfortunately, they have different purposes and, even if we all want to see a fair-play event, it seems that hackers are planning to cheat. According to MessageLabs, the company has detected no less ... |
23 April 2008
16:36 GMT |
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The US presidential race is one of the front-page subjects for some time now but today, a different type of report hits the Internet: Barack Obama's website has been hacked and all the visitors of the page were redirected to the one belonging to his rival, Hillary Clinton! A post on the Community Blogs hosted by... |
22 April 2008
04:00 GMT |
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A study published by APACS, a UK payment association, reveals what was already known by all of us: the number of the phishing attacks is continuously increasing. According to a report published by the mentioned association, there were no less than 10,235 reported phishing scams in the first quarter of 2008, compared ... |
21 April 2008
17:06 GMT |
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The short story so far: a pro-China hacker group that considered an article published by CNN offensive for their country prepared what they wanted to be a destructive attack over the website, in a move to take the page down. The attack was first scheduled for April 19 but, in a statement published by a member of the ... |
21 April 2008
04:48 GMT |
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Chinese hackers seem to be quite experienced these days as they manage to infiltrate into any vulnerable system found out there, connected to the web. After lots of reports concerning Chinese hackers who managed to broke into a certain computer, here's another one: the network belonging to the Indian Ministry of... |
14 April 2008
05:23 GMT |
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Adnan Ghalib is one name most of you have probably forgotten. However, someone out there remembered the name of the paparazzi-turned-Britney's-bedmate well enough to stalk him, send him death threats and eventually put them into practice. A report has emerged claiming that just about the same time Britney was ou... |
14 April 2008
04:37 GMT |
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Hackers work 24/7 and new victims of their malicious attempts appear every day. But what's interesting is that, of the total number of complainants who reported attacks, no less than 57.6 percent were male. This means that women are more difficult to trick when it comes to hacking/infecting/compromising a comput... |
4 April 2008
17:26 GMT |
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A few days ago, security researchers around the world spotted a new avalanche of IFrame attacks that revealed a pretty new hack technique: the users are redirected to several pages until they reach a 'deadly' final one which attempts to deploy the infection. Today, security researcher Dancho Danchev has pub... |
14 March 2008
11:39 GMT |
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Usually, when hacking a computer, cyber criminals have to choose one of the seven levels this can be attempted at. All of the reported stories of famous over-protected sites, that have had their security found a match for, have suffered because of this. Just in the same way, Trojans work with your PC on a level under... |
29 February 2008
11:26 GMT |
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The Taleban (also known as Taliban), the nationalist Afghanistan movement, threatened today to attack mobile networks and mobile companies offices across the country, unless the carriers agree to switch off their signals during night-time. Taleban militants say that foreign troops, including the US one, are us... |
25 February 2008
10:21 GMT |
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Blogs were inaccessible for about 5 to 15 minutes in the 4 days that have passed since Saturday, when the attack started. Automattic, the company that maintains WordPress.com, was knee deep in the work laid before them by hackers all throughout this period and managed to restore most of the service's original fu... |
20 February 2008
10:53 GMT |
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This one goes out to all the remaining dial-up users all over the world. Be warned! Some cyber criminals will single you just because of it and you don't want to have to fix the damage they'll do. Right now you have a bull's-eye on your balls, because they'll hit you where it hurts most. The lates... |
7 February 2008
15:06 GMT |
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We all know that hackers are always struggling to find new vulnerable targets, attack them and take advantage of the found weaknesses. But when a hacker manages to infiltrate into a website belonging to a country's government and modify its content, this really means something. For them, I mean, because they can... |
23 January 2008
15:16 GMT |
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If you thought that malware has made an obsession out of Windows-based operating systems only, you're wrong. A new type of criminal attack is committed to take over one of the most common hardware in a computer network: the router.According to the latest security reports, a new kind of attack tries to lure Inter... |
23 January 2008
09:51 GMT |
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People's money and their bank accounts represent the most important target for numerous hackers/attackers out there, so most attempts aim to steal these sensitive details. The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) reported a few days ago that a new type of attack called "vishing" continues to rise and to threate... |
22 January 2008
15:26 GMT |
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Oh boy, this is a funny one indeed. I always had a feeling that Bjork had more of a kinky side than most people imagined, but it wasn't until this weekend that we had confirmation. No, the singer didn't show up at a concert dressed in dominatrix gear and waving around a whip (perhaps that would have been a ... |
14 January 2008
05:29 GMT |
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A new hack attack targeted the official Pennsylvania website one week ago, as some hackers who were located in China attempted to infiltrate into the page. The state representatives took down the entire website, no matter the content was affected or not, Mia DeVane, a spokeswoman for the Office of Administration, sai... |
7 January 2008
17:06 GMT |
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It was only a matter of time, but I can't really find a reason for stealing somebody's Facebook login credentials since the service is free for all. Maybe spamming or infecting people's computer is enough to convince attackers to launch phishing schemes on the web... However, a phishing scheme has alre... |
3 January 2008
08:17 GMT |
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WORM_RBOT.HBZ is the latest threat spotted in the wild that targets the Windows systems and attempts to drop its files on most versions of the Microsoft operating system including 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP and Server 2003. The worm was discovered by security company Trend Micro, which wrote that it could easily reach your... |
28 December 2007
04:24 GMT |
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We expect to hear these news from the villages of India. But this crime scene occurred Wednesday at the San Francisco Zoo: an escaped Siberian tigress killed one visitor and mauled two others. The 300-pound (136-kilogram) Tatiana had been already involved in an attack on a zookeeper last Christmas. That incident made... |
27 December 2007
05:16 GMT |
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In case you were wondering whether Hilary Duff and her sister Haylie could make the headlines for anything else than ruining a movie or (in Hilary's case) showing off the fact that wearing panties went out of fashion years ago - here is proof that they still have that spark that makes them hit the screens with a... |
21 December 2007
05:26 GMT |
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'We got punk'd' the Tucson Police Department should say after their official website has been hacked by an Indonesian hacker. All the press releases published on the webpage were renamed to "Hmei7 has touched your soul", The Register reported today. According to the same source, the hacker managed to b... |
20 December 2007
04:24 GMT |
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Oh, no! No! Please! Santa is under attack! I mean really! Some dirty-looking monkey has just made a surprise attack on the poor guy, and I'm really panicking here. What if she bites him? What if she infects him with some deadly virus and then he'll be crippled for life? I mean, he's already old and pro... |
15 December 2007
04:52 GMT |
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Phishing has made new victims, so the authorities are now struggling to find the ones responsible for the damages which appear to be up to $400,000. Xinhua today reports that 5 Californian men are now investigated by the FBI, because they are suspected for being important parts in large phishing schemes, conducted in... |
13 December 2007
08:53 GMT |
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Since 2007 represented a huge success for social networking services, such as MySpace and Facebook, the attackers have adapted their techniques and targeted their attempts to the users connected to these websites. Security company MessageLabs rolled out an annual security report today, revealing that this year'... |
10 December 2007
09:05 GMT |
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SourceForge.net is one of the most popular locations for software developers around the world, hosting millions of open-source projects. According to Wikipedia, SourceForge.net reached 155,585 projects and 1,658,777 registered users in August 2007. I think I made myself clear and made you understand that the website... |
7 December 2007
10:41 GMT |
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