Dr Brooke Magnanti and Zoe Margolis two female authors who used to write popular risque blogs and books under pseudonyms claim that journalists from the Sunday Times tried to out them by using malware."From what I'm now hearing about the Sunday Times, it's making me wonder if I should contact the Met; never... |
12 July 2011
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A former University of Central Missouri (UCM) student accused of stealing a database with the personal data of thousands of people, pleaded guilty to hacking charges.Daniel J. Fowler, 21, of Kansas City, Mo., was an UCM student and community advisor between March 2009 to March 2010, when together with a co-conspirato... |
23 June 2011
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An early adopter of the Bitcoin virtual currency claims he was robbed of 25,000 bitcoins as a result of malware infection amounting to a loss of $500,000.
Bitcoins are a form of virtual cash that has made news headlines in recent months due to its unique characteristics and possible uses.
Bitcoins are stored in... |
15 June 2011
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Two remote code execution vulnerabilities affecting a popular Japanese word processor called Ichitaro, have been exploited to infect users for the past two months.Ichitaro, which dates back to the DOS era, is the most popular word processing application on the Japanese market after Microsoft Office.It is developed by... |
5 November 2010
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Following an unprecedented rise in cybercriminal activity targeting small and medium sized businesses, municipalities, schools and other organizations, the IC3 has released a detailed advisory with information about preventing, detecting and responding to corporate account takeover incidents.The document [pdf] was dr... |
21 October 2010
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A new wave of spam emails pose as official communications from Netflix and contain links that direct users to a malicious website trying to infect them with malware.According to security researchers from email security vendor AppRiver, at the campaign's peak, over 10,000 of these rogue messages were hitting the ... |
30 September 2010
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TechCrunch's 2009 Crunchies award website is currently blacklisted by Google for trying to install malicious software on visitors' computers, but there is reason to believe that the infection was more extensive.TechCrunch is one of the most popular technology blogs and over time has evolved into a network o... |
30 September 2010
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Tucows is the latest victim of hackers, who exploit a recent OpenX vulnerability to push malicious code onto legit websites in the form of advertisements.Malvertizements are ads riddled with malicious code, which either exploit vulnerabilities in outdated software to install malware or promote rogue applications (sca... |
16 September 2010
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Several websites from the TechCrunch Network, including TechCrunch Europe, MobileCrunch and CrunchGear fell victim to a code injection attack, which served malware to visitors.Founded in 2005, TechCrunch is one of the most popular technology blogs on the Internet. Since then it has evolved into a network or websites... |
7 September 2010
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A lawmaker has uncovered that 1,715 files containing South Korean military secrets, including war plans against North Korea, were stolen from infected Army-issued computers.Song Young-sun, a member of the South Korean parliament, who sits on the National Defense Committee, asked the Defense Ministry recently to relea... |
21 August 2010
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Security researchers found that a significant number of Web sites belonging to the Argentinian government were hacked and are now being used in black hat search engine optimization campaigns (BHSEO). Some of them are even infecting visitors with malware.The mass compromise was discovered by Sucuri Security, a provide... |
9 July 2010
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Vodafone's Spanish branch confirmed that as many as 3,000 mobile phones sold to its customers this month carried malware. The problem resides with a batch of infected microSD cards and not the devices themselves.Last week, security researchers from Panda Security reported having found several strains of malware ... |
19 March 2010
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Security researchers who reported last week that a Vodafone-issued HTC Magic phone came preloaded with malware are now in possession of a second infected device. The identical phone was acquired from the same mobile operator during the same period and contains the same Mariposa trojan strain.Earlier last week, securi... |
17 March 2010
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Panda Security reports that a brand new HTC Magic phone supplied by Vodafone came infected with malware out-of-the-box. Amongst the malicious applications on the Android-based phone were a Mariposa botnet client and the infamous Conficker worm.Researchers at the security vendor got their hands on the infected phone a... |
9 March 2010
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Mozilla announced that one of the experimental extensions named as being infected in a recent AMO security advisory was in fact clean. A more thorough investigation revealed that detection of malware in version 4.0 of Sothink Video Downloader was a false positive.Last week, Mozilla's Add-ons Team issued a securi... |
11 February 2010
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The University of Exeter in South West of England experienced serious problems with its computer network earlier this week due to a virus outbreak. Systems running Microsoft Windows Vista with Service Pack 2 seem to have been particularly affected by the unnamed malware. The problems started on Monday when a computer... |
21 January 2010
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Security researchers report on a new phishing campaign that circulates on Yahoo! Messenger and is instrumented with the help of hijacked accounts. A spammed rogue video link takes users to a fake Facebook login page.The new attack was discovered by researchers from enterprise software giant CA. "While using Yahoo Mes... |
14 December 2009
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The online admission test for India's most prestigious business schools was rescheduled for thousands of candidates after many testing laboratories across the country had problems with computer viruses. The incident raises both legal and organizational issues.The nationwide Common Admission Test (CAT) into the s... |
4 December 2009
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