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A malicious ad that silently infected visitors with scareware has made its way on Gizmodo. The incident was the result of a successful social engineering attack directed at the ad sales team of Gawker Media, the site's owner. Gizmodo is a popular technology blog owned by Gawker Media, an online media company co... |
28 October 2009
06:50 GMT |
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As a direct result of a phishing scheme, the credentials for approximately 20,000 Windows Live Hotmail accounts have been leaked in the wild, and published on the Pastebin website. The leak was made public at the start of this week, and confirmed officially by Microsoft. This means that approximately 20,000 Windows L... |
7 October 2009
10:20 GMT |
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Microsoft has confirmed officially that sensitive data for several thousand Windows Live Hotmail accounts has been leaked in the wild. The details, including the passwords and usernames necessary to access the Hotmail accounts, were published on Pastebin. Microsoft has asked the website to remove the data as it was i... |
6 October 2009
03:35 GMT |
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Security researchers warn that a new Koobface variant is currently making the rounds on Twitter. However, while the lure remains the same, the underlying social engineering has been improved to make them more credible.Koobface is one of the first and, at the same time, one of the most successful, social networking wo... |
7 August 2009
10:02 GMT |
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It was not any particular vulnerability that a French hacker exploited in order to get his hands on Twitter confidential corporate documents. According to his own account, it was patience and determination combined with the inherent security weaknesses in today's Web 2.0 ecosystem. TechCrunch, one of the first ... |
21 July 2009
05:31 GMT |
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This is shaping up to be a very bad year for micro-blogging platform Twitter, as far as its security is concerned. Last week, a hacker obtained access to a Twitter administrative account and subsequently leaked private information from ten profiles, including some belonging to celebrities such as Ashton Kutcher, Lily... |
4 May 2009
08:39 GMT |
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Microsoft's claims that it has invested heavily in bulletproofing Internet Explorer 8 as much as possible are by no means a simple marketing strategy to pass the browser as offering a high level of security for end users. In fact, a recent study performed by the NSS Labs signaled out IE8 as the safest browser co... |
26 March 2009
10:56 GMT |
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Microsoft has warned users against fake emails claiming to be from the Windows Live team asking them for their account data. The Redmond company has described a scenario in which the fraudulent email messages masquerading as being sent from Windows Live request sensitive information such as username, password, date o... |
17 March 2009
10:52 GMT |
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Researchers from antivirus vendor Trend Micro are warning against a new variant of the infamous Koobface worm that is targeting social networking users. While developing the new version, the worm writers have paid a lot of attention to details in an attempt to make their scheme as believable as possible. Koobface is... |
2 March 2009
05:40 GMT |
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Security researchers have documented a new malware attack, with an intriguing physical component. The attackers have used fake parking violation fliers in order to direct people to a malicious website installing malware. A lot of individuals are sensitive to spam and are able to realize when they're being serve... |
5 February 2009
06:16 GMT |
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Cyber-crooks don't need to worry about the language barrier anymore while scheming to defraud individuals or financial institutions. A new underground service offers social engineering services to scammers in multiple languages, Dancho Danchev, an independent security consultant, warns. As the security reasearch... |
16 December 2008
09:55 GMT |
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The writers of the Koobface worm that propagates on social networking websites have just released a new variant that is able to trick the security filters enforced by Facebook. In order to achieve this, the new strain makes use of the website's own features against itself. The Koobface worm was first detected b... |
6 December 2008
06:12 GMT |
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The National Police Service in Ireland is investigating a major credit card scam in which information of over 20,000 credit and debit cards has been stolen. The attackers posed as bank service personnel and attached rogue devices to card readers in stores from northeast Ireland. The captured data was then sent on the... |
20 August 2008
04:49 GMT |
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Apple is riding a success wave fueled by the market performance of the Mac computers. And while the Cupertino-based hardware company was pushing in excess of 2.15 million Macs per month back in the third quarter of 2007, ahead of the advent of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, its proprietary operating system also grows its own... |
16 January 2008
04:59 GMT |
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Free porn and free security, especially designed for the Windows operating system. If such offerings sound too good to be true, that's because they actually are. Generally speaking, free pornographic content, from JPEG files to full movies, as well as free security solutions, both hosted online or desktop based,... |
18 October 2007
13:31 GMT |
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Free pornographic movies and nude images of Hollywood stars such as Angelina Jolie and Halle Berry, fail to deliver on both the promise of a free ride and that of sexual explicit content. And the fact of the matter is that the content adjacent to such promises is as far as possible from sexual and explicit. Pornograp... |
2 October 2007
13:54 GMT |
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Free pornographic content and the Windows platform simply mix. The is a very thin line between scantly clothed girls in sexually explicit scenarios and the Windows operating system, especially if Internet Explorer is involved. The promise of free porn is hard to resist, and generally it is a sufficient incentive for ... |
28 September 2007
13:44 GMT |
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Americans are illiterates when it comes down to Internet security, and this is yet another category where men "rule", according to a survey commissioned by Microsoft and conducted by Harris Interactive. The conclusion of the Microsoft sponsored study is that approximately one in five online Americans has been the vic... |
15 August 2007
07:02 GMT |
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