The 2011 security breach at Dutch certificate authority(CA)DigiNotar resulted in an extensive compromise and was facilitated in part by shortcomings in the company's network segmentation and firewall configuration,according to Fox-IT,the ...
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IDG News Service-In one of the photos,the dark-haired,bearded hacker is peering into his computer's screen,perhaps puzzled at what's happening.Minutes later,he cuts his computer's connection,realizing he has been discovered. The nation of ...
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IDG News Service-Security researcher Zoltan Balazs has developed a remote-controlled piece of malware that functions as a browser extension and is capable of modifying Web pages,downloading and executing files,hijacking accounts,bypassing ...
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IDG News Service-The famed iPhone hacker"Comex,"who engineered ways to hack Apple's mobile operating system,is no longer doing work for the company,according to Twitter postings. "So...no point in delaying.As of last week,after about a ...
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Anonymous,the loosely affiliated hacker group,has claimed responsibility for a distributed-denial-of-service attack against banking giant HSBC. The attack was launched last night at about 10pm,and took down a number of customer-facing ...
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Anonymous,the loosely affiliated hacker group,has claimed responsibility for a distributed-denial-of-service attack against banking giant HSBC. The attack was launched last night at about 10pm,and took down a number of customer-facing ...
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The UK government's decision to enable self-confessed hacker Gary McKinnon to avoid extradition to face trial for breaking into US government and military computers could set a dangerous precedent. Home secretary Theresa May said in a ...
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British computer hacker Gary McKinnon will not be extradited to the US after the move was blocked by Home Secretary Theresa May. McKinnon admits accessing American government computers in 2002, but says he just was looking for evidence ...
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Home secretary Theresa May has issued a statement, which has effectively blocked the extradition of hacker Gary McKinnon. In September, May told Parliament that the coalition agreement committing the government to reviewing the UK's ...
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The most recent update for Mozilla's Firefox web browser has been taken offline one day after release because of a newly discovered security vulnerability. Mozilla has not indicated how many users could be vulnerable, but claims that ...
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Windows 7's malware infection rate climbed by as much as 182% this year, Microsoft said today. But even with that dramatic increase, Windows 7 remained two to three times less likely to fall to hacker attack than the aged Windows XP. ...
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Romanian national Manole Razvan Cernaianu,known online as TinKode,received a two-year suspended prison sentence for hacking into computer systems owned by Oracle,NASA,the U.S.Army and the U.S.Department of Defense and was ordered to pay ...
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A hacking group that calls itself Team GhostShell this week claimed credit for breaking into servers at 100 major universities from around the world,including Harvard,Stanford,the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan. ...
"Oh Kickstarter, is there anything you can't do?" Apparently not, given the supremely exciting level of participation in the Kickstarter effort for the LIFX, a WiFi-enabled, multi-colored, energy-efficient LED light bulb that you can ...
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Samsung is facing calls to issue a security update for the Galaxy S3 smartphone after it was discovered that the device can be reset by code hidden in a web page. German security researchers have demonstrated how an 11-character code can ...
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