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A group of hackers has yet again managed to infiltrate the firmware inside the Pentagon and to get away with an undisclosed number of terabytes of sensitive data. It's not yet clear who has been behind the infiltration, but the US government and publications such as the Wall Street Journal have already begun to ... |
21 April 2009
09:38 GMT |
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The Internet environment, as far as hacker attacks go, has come a long way since the early days, when a single individual would try to hack into a secure network just for the fun of the experience. Over the past few years, cyberattacks have become a very effective way of targeting an enemy nation, without actually ha... |
16 March 2009
11:52 GMT |
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Online services are becoming very important nowadays and, when it comes to game consoles, they are a big deciding factor in terms of which one to buy and which one to avoid. As such, the three big console manufacturers are investing a lot of money into their Internet-powered services, whether it is Xbox Live, PlaySta... |
25 February 2009
16:01 GMT |
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The gaming industry has rarely been the victim of Internet frauds but it seems that with the increase of popularity for online digital content distribution networks, like Steam or GameTap, hackers have begun exploiting the users of such websites by luring them in with fake promises in order to make them divulge their... |
27 January 2009
11:01 GMT |
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It seems that the PlayStation 3 gaming console from Sony has uses beyond simply playing the newest Prince of Persia. Some people have used the console as a Linux based computer, while others are using it, via the Folding@home program, to sort through data which could improve our knowledge of diseases and could lead t... |
5 January 2009
14:21 GMT |
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As most of the international community focuses its attention on drug traffic, cyber-crime is becoming increasingly aggressive, and the number of Internet attacks, be they through denial-of-service, spam, malicious software or viruses, is constantly going up. Hackers in Russia and China are mainly behind these attacks... |
30 December 2008
09:34 GMT |
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Hackers and phishers don't rest until they devise a new scheme, by which they can force honest web users into giving them their personal information. A number of phishing schemes have recently been reported that appear to use a scenario based on recent worldwide events. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has re... |
13 May 2008
07:12 GMT |
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As an update to the evolution of the lawsuit between News Corp. and DISH Network Corp., we bring you news about shocking statements of a Senior Manager at News Corp. The legal process between the two companies is a result of the testimony of a computer hacker who revealed he had been hired by News Corp. to develop pi... |
8 May 2008
08:07 GMT |
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Hacking into the schools network seems to be a rather usual behavior with students from the United States educational establishments. With an increasing number of students who are capable of breaking into their own school network, one has to wonder about the level of security of these networks. According to the Chica... |
8 May 2008
04:42 GMT |
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If you have been a student, you most certainly know how inconvenient it is when you receive a low school grade. The wonders of technology have allowed the creation of computer-based school networks in economically developed countries like the United States. Like everything else that is based on a computer, these scho... |
7 May 2008
11:36 GMT |
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Hacking has become more and more organized in the past years. Very rarely will a computer geek be seen sending spam and phishing all by himself, organizations have been formed and there's even a black market dealing with acquiring security vulnerabilities, paying up to one hundred grand depending on how severe t... |
21 February 2008
16:56 GMT |
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Criminals have found out that using hacking to sabotage law enforcers is quite an efficient tactic. It's not the first time something like this happens, but it's a first for anti-money laundering website, Bobbear. The British site had been built to inform the community about websites used for cyber-crime, s... |
12 October 2007
06:15 GMT |
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Hackers are known to have a taste for sites that attract a lot of visitors, and next year is election year in the United States. Malicious users could take advantage of the traffic electoral sites are going to get, for their own inscrutable purposes, as pointed out by security experts on Symantec's website. Now... |
11 October 2007
14:41 GMT |
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Some people just have no idea what they are doing. Here we go again - this is another case of overzealous security that can seriously end up in hurting the ones who should be protected! General Motors is going to come up with a system to make car thefts history… at least in their opinion! The technology is called Sto... |
11 October 2007
03:31 GMT |
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Now that's really weird. I haven't heard of such a hack going on in a very, very long time. Nowadays hackers are driven by financial considerations and those that hack sites and modify them (without anything being related to money) usually do it to send out a message. That was the case of the Turkish hacker... |
10 October 2007
14:36 GMT |
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Apparently, being stupid doesn't only have severe consequences in real life, but in cyber-space as well. And this isn't just one of my crazy opinions - it's certified by a McAfee study. People are using the same simple passwords for a lot of accounts. Sure, it's easy to remember a single password ... |
10 October 2007
07:02 GMT |
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China has a very large population, the largest in the world, with more than 1.31 billion people! One huge country and a pretty well informatized one too. I guess that due to this huge number of inhabitants and the fact that a lot of them have PCs, computer virus infections spread real fast. All a malware writer has t... |
9 October 2007
11:15 GMT |
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eBay is just like the Pentagon, every week there is news of some hackers targeting them and doing something pretty bad. Several days ago, a data leak on eBay's forum made the news - some hacker posted sensitive data belonging to a lot of users on it (the forum). Also, eBay has acknowledged more than once that th... |
9 October 2007
05:51 GMT |
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There just might be a chance to stop malware authors, for good, that is. Sure, I agree that we are not close to that point but we are going towards it. Now, how do you stop people from writing viruses? Well, you certainly can't have a cop next to every user to bop him or her one on the noggin whenever he starts ... |
9 October 2007
05:14 GMT |
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Hackers are restless and you know it! They will change their tactics, their targets etc., but they will never stop. However, a recent study by SecureWorks (a firm providing managed security services) shows a 90% increase in the number of hacker attacks against utilities. From January to April, SecureWorks blocked an ... |
8 October 2007
14:31 GMT |
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The United States have been attacked by hackers many times by now. The press has paid a lot of attention to this issue, and there have been many articles written about the Pentagon getting hacked by the Chinese. I really regret saying this, but sometimes, if some bad things do not reach the press, they remain unchang... |
8 October 2007
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These guys had it coming! You can't just have a caricature with Prophet Muhammad's head on a dog's body posted in a newspaper and expect the Muslims to stand around doing nothing. Though illegal, considering previous happenings, what I'm going to relate will seem natural to you.Hackers in Turkey h... |
8 October 2007
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The Israelis have bombed the Syrians, but that's not something out of the ordinary, as these countries have been at war since 1967. Now, what is somewhat weird is that they managed to bypass every defense system, reaching their target, just south of the Turkish border.They used F-15 and F-16 planes to get there ... |
5 October 2007
03:38 GMT |
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Internet Criminals are always thinking of new ways to scam users or hack their machines. And what concerns them the most is mass efficiency. Having a method that could work in a situation or two is not something efficient, cyber-crooks are looking for magic bullets. They're trying to deploy tactics that will ena... |
2 October 2007
09:53 GMT |
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If you're a fan of security news, then you've probably read a thousand times that Russian hackers did this, Russian hackers did that. But who are these guys? Well, the most dangerous hacker threat in this country comes from the Russian Business Network. Their name is rather ironic, considering the fact that... |
1 October 2007
09:38 GMT |
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Assessing the threat is never an easy thing to do and doing it with promptitude is even harder. Cyber-attacks have been something a lot of countries have been fearing with the Internet advancing at such a high speed. But only recently have a lot of scary possibilities popped up. And I'm saying recently and not p... |
28 September 2007
08:34 GMT |
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I wanted to write about this for a long time, since it is pretty important, but I never got the chance to do it; plus, there wasn't enough material to back up my statements… until now. Sophos expert Fraser Howard wrote a great technical paper on "Modern web attacks" that is very inspiring and also explains thing... |
28 September 2007
03:47 GMT |
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Sometimes, law enforcers do anything in their powers and even use illegal methods to prove the crooks' activity. Of course, if the accused ones are proved to be innocent, then the law enforcers might get sued. Pirate Bay, the file sharing service is in such a case - they plan to sue companies, that earlier accus... |
26 September 2007
05:16 GMT |
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Hacking is one serious issue nowadays, as it is a both cheap and efficient weapon. Whiz kids with too much power have become a threat to many states' national security. What's even worse is the fact that the thing that ISPs fear most, botnets, is a really "trendy" thing amongst hackers. As United Press Inte... |
25 September 2007
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Hackers make a lot of money these days, more than many other criminals do - and you know why? It's because they're smart! When they pick a target, they search for something that's going to bring them a lot of cash, no matter how hard it is to hack. If in real life, there are some systems that you can&#... |
24 September 2007
08:06 GMT |
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When I said hackers like social websites, I didn't mean that they surf MySpace all day long searching for bands or who knows what. These guys are interested in the potential of these sites, in the resources they have and that the hackers could use in their criminal activity. In case you have not figured this out... |
20 September 2007
09:59 GMT |
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Hackers attack websites everyday, even if it's not in the news. As studies show it, hackers are after financial profits most of the time. You rarely see a "good old fashioned hack" when the site is down and a message pops up, so that's why I decided to write about this hacker's deeds. Now, this guy was... |
20 September 2007
09:16 GMT |
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It's one thing when a company that uses the web gets hacked into, but when a web host gets hacked, this can mean one of two things: either they were hit by pros, or they had really bad security. The second case would seem outrageous to me - you cannot afford to be a web host and not have good security. If web ho... |
20 September 2007
03:38 GMT |
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We already knew that hackers could cause serious problems. Today, I even found out that cyber-crime is a lot worse than illegal drug distribution. Symantec has a study that will back this up even more. They state that hackers are not only thrived by financial gains (fact which we already knew) but that they are now u... |
19 September 2007
09:35 GMT |
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Cyber-crime is said to do a lot more damage than the whole drug distribution "industry". That being said, it means that hackers cause more financial losses than drug dealers do. And I'm not just saying this, it's McAfee CEO David DeWalt that said cyber-crime is now worth $105 billion. That is a huge number ... |
19 September 2007
05:17 GMT |
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Automatic Data Processing, Inc. is an international computer service company. They specialize in payroll processing, but offer various other services as well, such as human resources, screening and selection services and others. They sit on huge databases and recently, there has been news of one of them getting hacke... |
17 September 2007
10:22 GMT |
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I cannot believe this! The e-mail borne Storm just started infecting web pages. And what can I say? Its new feature popped up in style after it infected a US Republican Party site. The webpage got hacked and it had been spreading a form of Storm that would attack any vulnerable machines that visit the site. It is not... |
17 September 2007
08:59 GMT |
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Perhaps you were wondering how people become hackers and where from they get the resources to do all that nasty stuff. Well, in case you really were asking yourself such questions, then this article is for you. Well, there is no such thing as a black-hatter school, or none that I've heard of. Hackers are usually... |
17 September 2007
06:09 GMT |
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Now, here's a bizarre case of data breaching for you. The TD Ameritrade Company had a huge database with sensitive information belonging to clients. And when I say huge, I mean 6.3 million accounts. Hackers broke into it using the classic backdoor tactic, so what was weird in that? Well, the fishy part was that ... |
17 September 2007
03:37 GMT |
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Making money on the web is an easy thing. The best part about it is that you don't even have to leave the comfort of your home, like the rest of us that go to work. Basically, there are two ways in which you can make money on the web: legal and illegal. Of course, the illegal way will put you into jail nice and ... |
14 September 2007
04:44 GMT |
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Ten people of different nationalities have been arrested in Germany on accusations of Internet fraud. The scam had not been limited to Germany, but was at a world wide scale and it is presumed that its victims had lost hundreds of thousands of euros. The culprits were Russians, Ukrainians and Germans and they were re... |
13 September 2007
09:02 GMT |
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The Interpol finally thought that it would be a nice idea to properly assess cyber-threats. I admit that of all the law enforcers, the Interpol has been fighting the most against cyber-crime, but it sure did take them a lot to figure out that it would be great if they deployed global and regional anti-crime centers t... |
13 September 2007
05:24 GMT |
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I was just browsing the Net to see what news have popped up recently when I accidentally ran into an alarming fact - 40% of European citizens suffer from digital illiteracy, as c|net informs. Those figures are huge and I guess that they are bigger in some countries. How can you expect to be secure when you have no id... |
12 September 2007
11:13 GMT |
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Online gaming has become very popular as of late, especially MMORPGs (massive multiplayer online role playing game) and to be honest, I think that this just might be the future of gaming, as it is way more fun to battle human intelligence than AI. In any case, whenever something is popular it gets the attention of ha... |
12 September 2007
03:39 GMT |
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Wow! Someone finally made malware-based bank hacking impossible! Not matter how skilled hackers may be, there is no way they can 'win' on this one. Now, a part of the authentication process just got impossible to hack, thanks to Bank of America cyber-security experts. The bank site will generate a 6-digit c... |
11 September 2007
08:23 GMT |
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The Web is full of threats, and sure, some of them won't get to you, but it's better not to rely on that and stay protected in any case. And what better way to defend yourself against cyber-threats than to know what you're up against. Knowing your "enemy" is an vital part of any defensive strategy. CA ... |
11 September 2007
05:39 GMT |
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After the article that appeared in the Financial Times last week, a lot of papers and sites have been writing about Chinese hackers and their possible connection to the People's Liberation Army. Some have even said that the hacks were the PLA's work, even though Chinese officials have been denying any gover... |
11 September 2007
03:07 GMT |
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First, the US suffered. An attack on the Pentagon downed a part of their system. Then, Chinese hackers went and infected German government officials' computers with Trojan viruses, then, they went and hit English machines as well. The latest on episode on "I've been hacked by the Chinese" now features the F... |
10 September 2007
14:31 GMT |
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In many people's opinion (mine amongst them) ISP shouldn't just stand for Internet Service Provider but for Internet Service Police as well. Are we asking for too much? I don't think so, since they are the ones that can really do something against hackers. Not once have researchers and white hat hacker... |
10 September 2007
05:34 GMT |
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Hackers are always probing the net to see which users are vulnerable and which sites have flaws that they can exploit. Of course, it's a good thing to deploy security measures on your website, but it's imperative to use them if you are the army. You can't just play around like that, I mean, represent t... |
10 September 2007
03:59 GMT |
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