Microsoft yesterday warned Windows users of possible "man-in-the-middle" attacks able to steal passwords for some wireless networks and VPNs, or virtual private networks. It won't issue a security update for the problem, however. The ...
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Facebook has denied news reports of a major privacy breach involving users who saw their private messages from 2009 and before suddenly appearing on their viewable Timeline as messages posted by their friends. Users reported seeing their ...
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Corrupted router tables, not malicious protesters, were the culprits behind Monday's widespread outage of GoDaddy's Internet registrar and hosting services, the company reported. "The service outage was not caused by external influences," ...
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Android Forums, an online forum for Android users, was the target of a hacker attack that could have led to user information including passwords getting compromised, its operator Phandroid.com said on Thursday. Members of Android Forums ...
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Years ago the typical hacking scenario involved a lone attacker and maybe some buddies working late at night on Mountain Dew, looking for public-facing IP addresses. When they found one, they enumerated the advertising services (Web server, ...
An undetermined number of users of Microsoft's Xbox Live gaming service are having difficulties accessing the online gaming service, and the company said on Friday that it is working to resolve the issue. According to the Xbox Live status ...
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The Fall/Winter 2013/2014 Los Angeles International Textile Show (LA Textile) took place October 22-24, 2012 at the California Market Center (CMC) with a solid flow of traffic that included an array of prominent designers, manufacturers, ...
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Different hacker groups claim to have breached servers belonging to ImageShack, Symantec, PayPal and other organisations. On Sunday, a hacker group called HTP claimed to have compromised Web servers, MySQL databases, routers and ...
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A European aeronautical supplier's website has been infected with a state-sponsored zero-day exploit, according to security firm, Sophos. Business IT administrators and other computer users should use caution in the light of the discovery ...
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Security researchers have presented proof-of-concept code capable of accessing the database driving a Microsoft ERP system and then diverting funds while avoiding immediate detection. Tom Eston and Brett Kimmel of vendor SecureState ...
Criminals broke into an Adobe server and provided two pieces of malware with a digital certificate that attest to them being legitimate code. As a result of the breach, the company will revoke the certificate next Thursday and will update ...
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Security experts are warning businesses to take the publication of encrypted LinkedIn passwords by a hacker seriously. The professional networking site has confirmed that "some" of the stolen passwords posted online by a hacker correspond ...
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The hacktivist collective Anonymous celebrated Guy Fawkes Day on Monday by claiming it had stolen data from Symantec and ImageShack servers and had found a zero-day flaw in ZPanel. Fawkes was arrested over an alleged Nov. 5, 1605 botched ...
A member of hacktivist group Anonymous has claimed responsibility for a hack targeting GoDaddy,the world's largest domain name registrar,which has resulted in thousands of websites being brought down. The US service provider hosts ...
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IMages courtesy Usually when one hears the combination of “hacking” and “college students”, it sends shivers along our skin contemplating the damage. In this case, however, when the elite of the MIT geek core pull ...