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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 9th, 2012
Phony Microsoft Technicians Use Ammyy Admin to "Repair" Computers

Phony Microsoft Technicians Use Ammyy Admin to "Repair" Computers

500 EUR for 5 years is called by the crooks "cheap" support

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 9th, 2012
Anonymous Threatens Turkey for Putting RedHack on the List of Terrorist Organizations

Anonymous Threatens Turkey for Putting RedHack on the List of Terrorist Organizations

The US embassy in Ankara may have asked Twitter to remove the group's account

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 9th, 2012
Acronis Notifies Customers of Data Breach Caused by Technical Issue

Acronis Notifies Customers of Data Breach Caused by Technical Issue

Email addresses and upgrade serial numbers were erroneously indexed by Google

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 9th, 2012
ADP Digital Certificate Expiration Emails Point to Malware Hosted on Hijacked Sites

ADP Digital Certificate Expiration Emails Point to Malware Hosted on Hijacked Sites

A new series of ADP spam notifications have started making the rounds

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 9th, 2012
DarkComet RAT Author Terminates Project Because of the Misuse of the Tool

DarkComet RAT Author Terminates Project Because of the Misuse of the Tool

The decision might be influenced by the arrest of "xVisceral"

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 9th, 2012
Craigslist Facebook Scheme Combines Phishing with Survey Scams

Craigslist Facebook Scheme Combines Phishing with Survey Scams

The classic plots are becoming more complicated and more dangerous

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 9th, 2012
Time Has Run Out for Computers Affected by DNSChanger Trojan

Time Has Run Out for Computers Affected by DNSChanger Trojan

Here's a great tool from Bitdefender that automatically fixes the problem

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 9th, 2012
Thieves Steal Luxury Cars by Hacking into Their Onboard Computers

Thieves Steal Luxury Cars by Hacking into Their Onboard Computers

They have been arrested by UK authorities and await sentencing

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 9th, 2012
Fraudsters Rely on Digital Economy Act to Convince Users to Pay Up

Fraudsters Rely on Digital Economy Act to Convince Users to Pay Up

Numerous clues reveal the true purpose of official-looking emails

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 9th, 2012
Two Fraudsters Sent to Prison After Stealing $2.3M (€1.9M) from Students

Two Fraudsters Sent to Prison After Stealing $2.3M (€1.9M) from Students

Scotland Yard found enough evidence to link the suspects to phishing campaigns

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 9th, 2012
Anonymous Takes Credit for the 2 Million Syrian Emails Published by WikiLeaks

Anonymous Takes Credit for the 2 Million Syrian Emails Published by WikiLeaks

The information was obtained by Anonymous, AntiSec and the Peoples Liberation Front

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 9th, 2012
Exclusive Interview: Cosmo of UGNazi Talks About the Arrests

Exclusive Interview: Cosmo of UGNazi Talks About the Arrests

The hacker claims that The Jester didn't have anything to do with the FBI investigation

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 9th, 2012
Android “Botnet” Might Involve Yahoo! Mail Session Hijacking, Experts Say

Android “Botnet” Might Involve Yahoo! Mail Session Hijacking, Experts Say

Lookout researchers present a plausible theory regarding the alleged botnet

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 8th, 2012
Security Brief: Diversity

Security Brief: Diversity

All sorts of information security-related events took place between July 2 – July 8

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 7th, 2012
Anonymous Defaces Website of the Presidency of Paraguay

Anonymous Defaces Website of the Presidency of Paraguay

The hackers have left a message for the country's government

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 7th, 2012
Authorities Disrupt the Activities of Bulgaria’s Most Powerful Hacker Group

Authorities Disrupt the Activities of Bulgaria’s Most Powerful Hacker Group

The Cyber Warrior Invasion is accused of hacking into more than 500 websites worldwide

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 7th, 2012
Hacker C0mrade Leaks 6 GB of Data from Various Companies Worldwide

Hacker C0mrade Leaks 6 GB of Data from Various Companies Worldwide

Firms such as Citibank, Serco, Marathon Technologies and Pfitzer are named

 
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