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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 271 days ago
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http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2008/04/chinese_hackersBy Ryan SingelWired.com04.10.08 SAN FRANCISCO -- Computer intruders targeting pro-Tibetan groups, U.S. defense contractors and government agencies slipped in through previously unknown security holes in Microsoft Office, prompting Microsoft to issue a flurry of patches to the popular software suite in 2006 and 2007, according to computer security experts.These attacks, which appeared to have originated in China, began in early 2006 when the read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 250 days ago
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http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080501/STYLE/964766890/-1/styleBy TRICIA BISHOP The Baltimore SunMay 1, 2008BALTIMORE - It was 2003, it was Las Vegas, and Johnny Long was a rock star.He slung the blue speaker badge around his neck - careful to make sure everyone could see it - and strutted through the Def Con hacker convention with his nose in the air and his ears set to whisper mode, listening for the buzz.Too cool to make eye contact, the 32-year-old cut a path through the cro read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 240 days ago
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Dave and BustedThree men - one of them suspected of playing a role in the heist of 45.6 million credit cards from retailer TJX Companies - have been accused of hacking into cash register terminals belonging to a restaurant chain and installing software that sniffed credit card numbers.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 239 days ago
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/13/trio_accused_in_carding_scam/By Dan Goodin in San FranciscoThe Register13th May 2008Three men - one of them suspected of playing a role in the heist of 45.6 million credit cards from retailer TJX Companies - have been accused of hacking into cash register terminals belonging to a restaurant chain and installing software that sniffed credit card numbers.According to a 27-count indictment unsealed Monday, the scheme was carried out in part by Maksym Yastremskiy. In Jul read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 150 days ago
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LAS VEGAS, NEV. -- If you use Gmail and haven't yet taken advantage of a feature Google 
unveiled last week to prevent hackers from hijacking your inbox, now would be an excellent time to do that. A security researcher at the Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas on Saturday demonstrated a tool he built that allows attackers to break into your inbox even if you are accessing your Gmail over a persistent, encrypted session (using...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 90 days ago
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 03:07:10 -0500 (CDT)http://www.grandforksherald.com/articles/index.cfm?id=88793By Chuck Haga Herald Staff WriterOctober 07, 2008A laptop computer containing sensitive personal and financial information on more than 84,000 UND alumni, donors and others was stolen last month from a vehicle belonging to a software vendor retained by the UND Alumni Association.The laptop has not been recovered, but the sensitive information, including individual read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 15 days ago
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Attack of the open redirectsMiscreants are exploiting weaknesses in more than one million webpages operated by the federal government, media companies, and even Microsoft to trick unwitting visitors into installing harmful software that takes over their computers.… read more »
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