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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 16th, 2012
Unhappy Employee Hacks Former Company, Threatens Boss with Axe

Unhappy Employee Hacks Former Company, Threatens Boss with Axe

The owner of an Australian ISP witnessed the fury of 29-year-old Bryce Kingsley Quilley

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 16th, 2012
Scareware Leverages Reputation of Industrial Espionage Malware

Scareware Leverages Reputation of Industrial Espionage Malware

The scammers don’t know what Medre is or how to remove it

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 16th, 2012
Trend Micro Confirms Yahoo! Mail Flaw Possible Cause of “Android Botnet”

Trend Micro Confirms Yahoo! Mail Flaw Possible Cause of “Android Botnet”

Over 10 days have passed since Lookout notified Yahoo! and the issue still isn’t fixed

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 16th, 2012
Fake Deutsche Post Emails Carry Trojan

Fake Deutsche Post Emails Carry Trojan

Only a handful of antivirus engines appoint the file as being malicious

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 16th, 2012
Hacker Sentenced to 8 Years for Involvement in $3M (€2.3M) Scheme

Hacker Sentenced to 8 Years for Involvement in $3M (€2.3M) Scheme

The man and his accomplices combined burglary with hacking to make all that money

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 16th, 2012
Experts Find Filter Bypass Vulnerabilities in Barracuda Appliances (Video, Updated)

Experts Find Filter Bypass Vulnerabilities in Barracuda Appliances (Video, Updated)

Vulnerability Lab researchers reported the bug to Barracuda Networks

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 16th, 2012
RedHack Reveals Identities of Turkish Police Informants

RedHack Reveals Identities of Turkish Police Informants

This comes after journalists were threatened for supporting the group

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 16th, 2012
Rogue Antispyware: Web Combat, Virtual Angel, Profound Security, Premium Defender

Rogue Antispyware: Web Combat, Virtual Angel, Profound Security, Premium Defender

Fake security software you should beware of this month

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 16th, 2012
Hackers Claim Breach of Palm Springs Police Officer Association

Hackers Claim Breach of Palm Springs Police Officer Association

Grey Security leaked the administrator’s username and password

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 16th, 2012
Minecraft Flaw Exposes Gamer Accounts, Researchers Find

Minecraft Flaw Exposes Gamer Accounts, Researchers Find

Mojang took down its authorization servers until the issue was resolved

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 16th, 2012
Mikko Hypponen: Stuxnet Was a Game Changer

Mikko Hypponen: Stuxnet Was a Game Changer

The expert believes that all future wars will have a “cyber” component

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 16th, 2012
Symantec Endpoint Protection Update Causes BSOD

Symantec Endpoint Protection Update Causes BSOD

A compatibility issue between SONAR, Windows XP and third-party software was blamed

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 16th, 2012
ASUS eStore Hacked, Administrator Credentials Leaked (Updated)

ASUS eStore Hacked, Administrator Credentials Leaked (Updated)

NullCrew has published around 23 usernames and associated passwords

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 15th, 2012
Security Brief: Yahoo!, NVIDIA, AndroidForums, Formspring, Nexus Q Hacked

Security Brief: Yahoo!, NVIDIA, AndroidForums, Formspring, Nexus Q Hacked

We call the period between July 9 - July 15 the "week of the hack"

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 14th, 2012
Anonymous Introduce Par:AnoIA, WikiLeaks Alternative

Anonymous Introduce Par:AnoIA, WikiLeaks Alternative

The initiators of the project hope to attract attention to the content of leaks

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 14th, 2012
Operation Save the Arctic: Shell, Gazprom, Rosneft, BP Hacked

Operation Save the Arctic: Shell, Gazprom, Rosneft, BP Hacked

Hundreds of email addresses and passwords have been leaked

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 14th, 2012
Yahoo! Fixes Security Hole and Enhances Securtiy After Contributor Network Hack

Yahoo! Fixes Security Hole and Enhances Securtiy After Contributor Network Hack

The company offers more details on the incident that affected 450,000 users

 
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