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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 278 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: userfriendly black hats debut crimeware service caas comments Discuss  
'Instantly infect your favorite Fortune 500 company'Security researchers have uncovered a new web-based service containing security credentials for more than 8,700 websites belonging to Fortune 500 companies and government agencies. It allows miscreants to infect some of the internet's most popular destinations with a few clicks of the mouse.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 123 days ago
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Fake Google exploit 'wildly mature'Miscreants are actively exploiting a gaping hole in the internet's address lookup system that can cause millions of web surfers to receive counterfeit pages when they try to access online banking services and other types of websites.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 76 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: black hats target windows media encoder bug comments Discuss  
Quick on the drawMiscreants have wasted no time exploiting a critical hole in Microsoft's Windows Media Encoder. Just four days after Redmond released fixes for that flaw and seven others, security experts found attack code in the wild that preys on users who have yet to install the patch.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 5 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn guide tells grey hats avoid legal pitfalls comments Discuss  
From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:14:44 -0600 (CST)http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39562174,00.htmBy Tom EspinerZDNet.co.uk25 Nov 2008 The US-based Electronic Frontier Foundation has published a guide on how IT professionals can avoid falling foul of the law as a result of ethical hacking.The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) 'Grey Hat' Guide [1] ponders such questions as what a security researcher should do if they unintentionally "violate the law& read more »
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