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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 786 days ago
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Lights go out, firewalls come tumbling downChinese hackers have been blamed for two sets of cyber attacks that left US homes without electricity in recent years.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 640 days ago
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Fraud as a service persists post-Dark Market takedownCrackers are applying the ideas of cloud computing to online fraud in a move that means even technically illiterate crooks can move into cybercrime.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 624 days ago
Via: http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com | Tags: tracking crackers software piracy comments Discuss  
Vendors are waging a losing battle against software pirates. With V.i. Labs, eWEEK takes a look at how software pirates promote their wares on the Web. - According to the Business Software Alliance, more than one-third of all software installed on personal computers worldwide is pirated, costing the software industry nearly $48 billion. At one end of that food chain is the consumer. On the other end is the network of crackers, suppliers and distribu... read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 513 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn russian password crackers woo governments comments Discuss  
From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 06:13:05 -0600 (CST)http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsID=111699By Jeremy KirkIDG News Service03 March 2009Russian security vendor Elcomsoft is offering a 20 percent discount for law enforcement and government agencies for some of its password-cracking software.Elcomsoft, based in Moscow, makes an array of products that can figure out the keys for encrypted documents such as Microsoft Word and Adobe PDF. Elcomsoft's softwar read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 507 days ago
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Talkin' 'bout key generationChinese crackers have reportedly cracked the iTunes gift card system.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 500 days ago
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Unpatched bug features in multi-stage attacksHackers have created exploits against a long-standing, unpatched Windows "token kidnapping" vulnerability.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 472 days ago
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:47:57 -0500 (CDT)http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/04/pins.htmlBy Kim Zetter Threat LevelWired.comApril 14, 2009Hackers have crossed into new frontiers by devising sophisticated ways to steal large amounts of personal identification numbers, or PINs, protecting credit and debit cards, says an investigator. The attacks involve both unencrypted PINs and encrypted PINs that attackers have found a way to crack, according to the investig read more »
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