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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 280 days ago
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Hacking tools nick nicked dataMany of the people behind identity theft scams are themselves having data stolen from them in the process, a security researcher has revealed.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 275 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn russian hosting network running protection racket researcher says comments Discuss  
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=security&articleId=9063418By Gregg KeizerFebruary 19, 2008 Computerworld The Russian Business Network, a notorious hacker and malware hosting network, runs a protection racket that extorts as much as $2,000 a month in fees for "protective Web services" from borderline sites, a researcher alleged today.The RBNExploit blog -- which is authored by one or more anonymous researchers -- spelled out the racket run by th read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 274 days ago
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p strong RFID security guru releases a test program that can read chip and PIN credit cards using the EMV standard. strong p ...Innovative Bespoke Web 2.0 Solutions Web Development, Success for over 100 satisfied clients, Cost affective. Contact us now! read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 234 days ago
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Somewhere between 1 percent and 3 percent of all traffic on the Internet is meaningless packets of information, used in distributed denial of service attacks (DDOS ) to knock Web sites offline. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 226 days ago
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/040708-rsa-researcher-web-page-can.htmlBy Robert McMillanIDG News Service 04/07/2008On Tuesday at the RSA Conference, researcher Dan Kaminsky will show how a Web-based attack could be used to seize control of certain routers.Kaminsky has spent the past year studying how design flaws in the way that browsers work with the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS) can be abused in order to get attackers behind the firewall. But at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, he will d read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 218 days ago
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http://blog.thc.org/index.php?/archives/1-GSM-Researcher-stopped-at-Heathrow-Airport-by-UK-government-officials.htmlBy John Doe April 16. 2008I was leaving today from the United Kingdom/Heathrow airport. I am about to speak at the HITB IT security conference about GSM security and the USRP (gnu-radio project).I was searched by the UK government while waiting at the Gate and reading a newspaper. A UK Government employee flipped his badge and said "Let's talk. Come over here".They detained my USRP read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 214 days ago
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http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/04/isps-error-page.htmlBy Ryan Singel Threat LevelWired.comApril 19, 2008Seeking to make money from mistyped website names, some of the United States' largest ISPs instead created a massive security hole that allowed hackers to use web addresses owned by eBay, PayPal, Google and Yahoo, and virtually any other large site.The vulnerability was a dream scenario for phishers and cyber attackers looking for convincing platforms to distribute fake websites or malicious code. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 209 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: researcher finds hack oracle database comments Discuss  
Security researcher David Litchfield has released technical details of a new type of attack that could give a hacker access to an Oracle database. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 206 days ago
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A security think tank says it has found a vulnerability in Apple's QuickTime multimedia player that can be exploited remotely to compromise Windows Vista PCs upgraded to Service Pack 1, as well as XP SP2. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 197 days ago
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Security researcher Aviv Raff has published code that would allow someone to take control of a computer running Internet Explorer, but there's a catch. He's not saying exactly where he's hidden the attack. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 185 days ago
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One of the researchers behind ScanAlert, the "Hacker Safe" certification company McAfee recently acquired, is facing fraud charges in Indiana. read more »
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