The fact that he threatened to leak a number of 30 million email and Facebook account credentials that belong to users from Saudi Arabia and other countries attracted a lot of attention on Hannibal, the hacker that seeks revenge for the large number of Israeli credit card details published online by various hackers, ... |
19 January 2012
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The notorious LulzSec hacking outfit has leaked over 26,000 email addresses and plain text passwords stolen from the database of an adult website.After dumping the data online, the group encouraged people to try the login credentials on Facebook and tell the victims' family members how they signed up for the adu... |
11 June 2011
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A new piece of malware being distributed by Sality uses stolen Facebook credentials to surreptitiously install rogue apps under the corresponding profiles.Sality is the world's top file infecting malware and dates back to 2003. The threat has evolved over the years and was fitted with P2P, self-propagation and m... |
14 April 2011
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Security researchers warn about a new information stealing trojan which hijacks file shortcuts in order to ensure its execution after reboot, instead of adding registry entries.According to malware analysts from German antivirus vendor Avira, upon execution, the trojan searches for .lnk (shortcut) files on the deskto... |
14 December 2010
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Suffolk County National Bank, a subsidiary of Suffolk Bancorp, announced that back in December it learned of a security breach on one of its Online Banking servers. The organization discovered that 8,378 customer credentials were stolen, but is not aware of any of them being misused to date. The intrusion occurred b... |
16 January 2010
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An HTTP traffic snooping exercise performed during the Security Conference Toronto (SecTor) earlier this month has upset many attendees whose login credentials for various websites were captured and displayed publicly. The affected individuals claim that the organizers were deceptive and that they potentially broke C... |
16 October 2009
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A self-confessed white hacker who recently obtained access to a user database containing over 870,000 accounts with passwords stored in plain text has decided to do some password strength analysis. The results revealed that a significant percentage of people are still using insecure passwords that can be easily crack... |
16 September 2009
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A user who was curious to search how much of his personal information was available on the Internet, stumbled upon a document containing some 8,000 usernames and passwords belonging to Comcast customers. After checking the file, the Internet service provider disabled around 700 active accounts and said it had been mo... |
18 March 2009
08:56 GMT |
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The popular photo library iStockphoto has been targeted by cyber-criminals, who have launched a phishing attack on the website's forums and user e-mail service. The attack has been blocked, but users are advised to change their account password. iStockphoto is considered the pioneer of a concept known as micros... |
5 March 2009
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Security researchers warn that fake Google AdWords and Yahoo! Marketing Solutions customer support e-mails messages are in circulation. The e-mails contain URLs that direct users to fake authentication pages in an attempt to steal login information. Alex Eckelberry, CEO of Sunbelt Software, warns that Google AdWords ... |
19 January 2009
06:55 GMT |
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Sophos warns of a new phishing campaign targeting the users of the Hi5 social network. The e-mails masquerade as a friend invitation, and the contained link directs the users to a fake login page. It's no news that identity thieves are using social engineering tactics in order to trick unsuspecting users into ha... |
15 December 2008
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