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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 578 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: microsofts puts giant web hole notice comments Discuss  
Tell us if you've heard this one before?Engineers in Microsoft's Internet Explorer group are devising a new means to stamp out one of the web's biggest security banes: attacks that steal email, bank account credentials and other sensitive information by injecting malicious code into trusted websites.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 391 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn group spots giant hacks combing small newspapers comments Discuss  
From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:46:30 -0600 (CST)http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/02/volunteer-group.htmlBy Kim Zetter Threat LevelWired.comFebruary 19, 2009Days before Heartland Payment Systems admitted to a computer intrusion that likely exposed hundreds of thousands of consumers to fraud, a group of volunteer security professionals sniffed out the truth on their own.For years, researchers with the nonprofit Open Security Foundation have been scouring press repo read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 331 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn giant leap looms mobile bugs comments Discuss  
From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:47:56 -0500 (CDT)http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8014111.stmBy Jason PalmerScience and technology reporterBBC News23 April 2009The widespread outbreak of mobile phone viruses will occur when a sufficient number of them share an operating system (OS), according to researchers.Viruses spread by Bluetooth could reach all users of a given OS in days, whereas those spread by multimedia messages could spread in just hours.But the virulen read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 291 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: insurance giant coughs malwarerelated data breach comments Discuss  
This is not business as usualThe US arm of insurance giant Aviva has blamed a computer virus infection for the potential disclosure of sensitive personal information.… read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 171 days ago
Via: http://feeds.voices.washingtonpost.com | Tags: hackers breach payroll giant target customers comments Discuss  
Hackers last week apparently used stolen account information from a New Jersey company that provides online payroll services to target the firm's customers in a scheme to steal passwords and other information. Morrestown, N.J. based PayChoice, provides direct payroll processing services and licenses its online employee payroll management product to at least 240 other payroll processing firms, serving 125,000 organizations. Last Wednesday, a number of PayChoice customers received an e-mail warning them that read more »
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