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Hen Harrier Population Threatened by Second Extinction

Poaching activities, correlated with climate change and illegal trade have made the hen harrier population vulnerable, according to a recent study issued by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) and Natural England. Conservation groups managed to reintroduce the creatures after they were declared ext...

8 December 2011
08:25 GMT

Pwn2Own '08 Winner: Apple's Safari is 'Easy Pickins'

Charlie Miller, the security researcher who won last year’s Pwn2Own hacker contest, expects this year's showdown to be even worse for Apple's web browsing application. According to his predictions, as many as four different individuals may be able to hack Safari this time around. Last year, Miller exp...

4 March 2009
06:53 GMT

Want to Pay a Lot for ...Insecurity? Get a Toyota Prius!

I already figured out that a lot of people don't care much about security. Sometimes, IT managers fail to encrypt some info - it's not their data anyway, so they don't care. But what the Toyota people did is pretty nasty, since they show they couldn't care less about their products. They went and ...

21 September 2007
05:46 GMT

Outpost Firewall May "Burn" You As Well

Agnitum Outpost Firewall PRO 4.0 has been disclosed with a vulnerability that, if exploited by a malicious user, could cause a denial of service (DoS). And all this because the program cannot handle unexpected input the right way. Every program should properly test any data input before actually using it, as incorrec...

19 September 2007
03:47 GMT

Gmail, eBay, MySpace - STILL Vulnerable

Gmail, eBay, MySpace, banking sites, social network sites, any site, you just name it…they're all vulnerable. You can get your data phished in a second. It doesn't matter if you have a firewall and an anti-virus; if a hacker really wants to get your data, he will. But that's not the news; it may have b...

10 September 2007
03:03 GMT

Firefox Still Vulnerable! (Reminds Me Of XP)

It still can't properly handle protocol. It's bugged! They've released two patches since these flaws were first discovered but it is still vulnerable.This is sort of like Windows XP. They've released it and then came Service Pack I and then II and a lot of hotfixes and updates and so on and so fo...

5 September 2007
09:55 GMT

Got Windows? You're Vulnerable!

As you might have noticed, the Internet is one great market, and guess what's for sale now! MPack! This is your standard-issue-web-attack-kit used by lots of hackers all around the world, and it can be yours now, for only $400! Shipping price not included! All you need to do is buy this software and you can star...

24 August 2007
09:48 GMT

Not Even CAPTCHA Is Secure Any More!

For those of you that do not now, CAPTCHA is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to determine whether the user is human or not. It stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. I'm sure you've seen it many times while browsing the Web, but you just di...

23 August 2007
11:04 GMT

Wells Fargo Crash - Vulnerable to Hackers?

You might already know this, Wells Fargo & Co. experienced some service problems that disabled ATMs and online accounts for their customers, as The Napa Valler Register informs us. This crash left people without access to their money for about 24 hours. You can read more about this matter by clicking on this here lin...

22 August 2007
04:52 GMT

OneCare Fails One More Security Test

Windows Live OneCare, the security tool provided by the software giant Microsoft, failed another antivirus test, AV-Comparatives reported today. Some week ago, the security company reported that OneCare was the weakest antivirus in the tests because it managed to identify only a small percent of the threats. Today, t...

10 March 2007
03:21 GMT


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