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404 Error: Hackers not FoundTechnical mistakes by Senator Joe Lieberman's re-election campaign team - rather than an attack by political opponents - was responsible for the crash of the US politician's website on the eve of the August 2006 Connecticut primary election, federal investigators discovered.… read more »
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9083718By Brian FonsecaMay 7, 2008ComputerworldResearchers who extracted data from a hard drive onboard the ill-fated space shuttle Columbia say the device was so thoroughly damaged in the shuttle's fiery crash that it just looked like a cracked "hunk of metal" when it appeared at their door six months later.Data recovery specialists at Kroll Ontrack Inc. painstakingly retrieved 99% of the information stored on the read more »
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Crash test dummiesFabricated news of a supposed car accident involving Formula One star Fernando Alonso is being used to distribute a new banking Trojan.… read more »
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Internet infrastructure vendors are working on patches for a set of security flaws that could help hackers knock servers offline with very little effort. read more »
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eBay cares noteBay users are howling in protest after discovering hackers are using automated scripts to win hundreds of steeply discounted auctions as part of a holiday season contest designed to draw visitors to the site.… read more »
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Avsim, RIPA popular website for users of flight simulation gear has been felled, most likely fatally, after malicious hackers attacked both of the servers housing more than 12 years worth of content supplied by its 60,000 members.… read more »
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Dramatic images of flight 447's last momentsBolivian TV channel PAT has been left looking a bit daft after broadcasting extraordinary images of the last moments of Air France flight 447, lost over the Atlantic on 1 June:… read more »
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Master server flaw could break the interwebsA vulnerability in BIND creates a means for miscreants to crash vulnerable Domain Name System servers, posing a threat to overall internet stability as a result.… read more »
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Teardrop ExplodesMicrosoft has denied claims that an unpatched flaw in a file and printer sharing feature was inadvertently introduced when it fixed an earlier, less severe problem in the software back in December 2007.… read more »
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Ashes, ashes all fall downJuniper Networks is warning customers of a critical flaw in its gateway routers that allows attackers to crash the devices by sending them small amounts of easily-spoofed traffic.… read more »
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 04:46:24 -0600 (CST)http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9143297/Microsoft_won_t_fix_Windows_7_crash_bug_next_week?taxonomyId=17By Gregg KeizerComputerworldJanuary 7, 2010Microsoft today said it will deliver a single security update on Tuesday to patch just one vulnerability in Windows.However, the company acknowledged that it does not yet have a fix for a crippling bug in Windows 7 that went public nearly two months ago.The expected updat read more »
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