Incidents  

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  • By Lucian Constantin
  • May 31st, 2010
Clickjacking Worm Hits Facebook

Clickjacking Worm Hits Facebook

Affects hundreds of thousands of users

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  • By Lucian Constantin
  • May 10th, 2010
Twitter Bug Allowed Users to Forcefully Add Followers

Twitter Bug Allowed Users to Forcefully Add Followers

All hell broke loose as everyone's followers count was reset to zero

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  • By Lucian Constantin
  • May 10th, 2010
Mass Injection Attack Hits WordPress Blogs across Multiple Hosters

Mass Injection Attack Hits WordPress Blogs across Multiple Hosters

The malicious code hides from Google's crawler

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  • By Lucian Constantin
  • April 20th, 2010
Le Monde Attacked by Romanian Nationalist Hackers

Le Monde Attacked by Romanian Nationalist Hackers

Subdomain defaced with patriotic message

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  • By Lucian Constantin
  • April 17th, 2010
Multiple EDIMAX Websites Hacked

Multiple EDIMAX Websites Hacked

Administrative credentials leaked via SQL injection

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  • By Lucian Constantin
  • April 14th, 2010
Complex Attack Hits Apache.org Services

Complex Attack Hits Apache.org Services

A mix of cross-site scripting, brute force and social engineering

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  • By Lucian Constantin
  • April 10th, 2010
Dirty Attack Cripples Hundreds of WordPress Blogs

Dirty Attack Cripples Hundreds of WordPress Blogs

Exploited security hole not yet identified

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • April 8th, 2010
Romanian Police Arrest 70 eBay Scammers

Romanian Police Arrest 70 eBay Scammers

Romanian and US collaboration leads to nation-wide arrests

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • April 6th, 2010
French Registrar Takes Down Anti-Google Proxy

French Registrar Takes Down Anti-Google Proxy

Gandi.net takes down privacy service after domain name infringement

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  • By Lucian Constantin
  • March 18th, 2010
Disgruntled Employee Disabled over 100 Cars via Web System

Disgruntled Employee Disabled over 100 Cars via Web System

Misused a former coworker's credentials

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  • By Lucian Constantin
  • March 2nd, 2010
UK Conservative Party Websites Defaced

UK Conservative Party Websites Defaced

Rogue messages sent to associated mailing lists

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  • By Lucian Constantin
  • February 18th, 2010
Global Cyber-Spying Attack Uncovered

Global Cyber-Spying Attack Uncovered

Zeus-based botnet used to steal data from 2,500 organizations

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  • By Lucian Constantin
  • February 17th, 2010
Hundreds of Norfolk City Computers Mysteriously Incapacitated

Hundreds of Norfolk City Computers Mysteriously Incapacitated

A 'time bomb' might be the cause

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  • By Lucian Constantin
  • February 12th, 2010
Popular Twitter Grader Service Hacked

Popular Twitter Grader Service Hacked

Attacker posts rogue tweets on users' feeds

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  • By Lucian Constantin
  • February 9th, 2010
Leading Indian IT Provider Has Its Domain Name Hijacked

Leading Indian IT Provider Has Its Domain Name Hijacked

Hackers put it up for sale

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  • By Lucian Constantin
  • February 9th, 2010
Orange Regional Website Hacked

Orange Regional Website Hacked

Sixty thousand accounts compromised

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  • By Lucian Constantin
  • January 28th, 2010
Mass Defacement Hits Congressional Websites

Mass Defacement Hits Congressional Websites

Brazilian hackers offend President Obama

 
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