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Britney Spears’ Twitter account hacked Picture

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:27:59 GMT

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Britney Spears’ Twitter account hacked Picture

Britney Spears’ Twitter account was hacked and two nasty messages were left up for fans to see.Unless Britney Spears secretly worships satan, it looks like her Twitter account (@BritneySpears) has been hijacked by hackers with hijinks in mind.

How to Prevent Heart Hackers From Turning Off Pacemakers

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:15:31 GMT

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But fitting pacemakers or implanted defibrillators with WiFi also opens the door to hackers‘ attacks. Hackers could potentially steal personal information, remotely drain batteries, or cause a dangerous malfunction, so researchers are working on ways to block them. The approach relies on using ultrasound waves to determine the exact distance between a medical device and the wireless reader attempting to communicate with it

The plan is to only allow access to a medical device from wireless reading devices within 10 feet, and only then after a series of authentication steps. However, in the event of an emergency, the medical device would grant access to anyone within a few inches of the device. In other words, to anyone close enough to assist.

because the device won’t respond to requests that come from outside the predetermined distance, it would also be harder for an attacker to wear down the battery by forcing it to process one request after another

Tags: computers, hackers, privacy

Good Luck on Actually Seeing Those Olympics

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:55:20 GMT

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RIO DE JANEIRO – A massive power failure blacked out Brazil's two largest cities and other parts of Latin America's biggest nation Tuesday night, leaving millions of people in the dark after a huge hydroelectric dam suddenly went offline.

Paraguay was also affected when the Itaipu dam straddling the two nations' border stopped producing 17,000 megawatts of power, resulting in outages in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and at least several other big Brazilian cities, Brazilian Mines and Energy Minister Edison Lobao said.

The blackouts came three days after CBS's "60 Minutes" news program reported that several past Brazilian power outages were caused by hackers. Brazilian officials had played down the report before the latest outages, and Lobao did not mention it.

The Itaipu dam is the world's second biggest hydroelectric producer, supplying 20 percent of Brazil's electricity. China's Three Gorges dam is the largest.

Tags: power, electricity, hackers, brazil, rio

How to Remove Security Tool - Get Rid of Security Tool and Regain Your Safety

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:39:02 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Security Tool, or SecurityTool, is a fresh, sleek looking piece of software with glitter and stars that promises to protect and clean your computer. Guess what? It's a fake! The same hackers who brought you the menacing Total Security 2009 virus and System Security scamware have a new, nasty tool to infect your computer and steal away your security and safety.

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Security Tool, or SecurityTool, is a fresh, sleek looking piece of software with glitter and stars that promises to protect and clean your computer. Guess what? It's a fake! The same hackers who brought you the menacing Total Security 2009 virus and System Security scamware have a new, nasty tool to infect your computer and steal away your security and safety.

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Hard Drive Recovery Software

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:35:06 GMT

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Why is Hard Drive Recovery Software Important?

In today’s technological world, any information that can be sent and received via email or website is considered virtual information. Much of the virtual information from the World Wide Web contains private and personal information about people, places, businesses, and other important matters. Unfortunately, it is not possible to shield yourself or your computer from all the types of hassles or trouble that you may find yourself in after you have just sent private information over the internet. For this reason, it is necessary for many people all over the world to recover data from hard drive accidents, crashes, virus infestations, computer hackers, and natural disasters. Considering the importance of hard drive recovery software is all too important if you are using a computer in your daily life, and here are some reasons why a program such as this will benefit you.

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Stay Safe When Surfing The Web

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:54:52 GMT

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Stay Safe When Surfing The Web

Make sure your business is properly protected when accessing the internet. Surfing the web is no longer as easy as it used to be. In the olden days hackers used to send out viruses just to try and achieve the status of being 'top hacker' on the internet. While you're online, everything may still look the same, but under the surface things have changed.

Tags: internet security, web security, domain name

Gizmodo hit by malware ad

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:24:32 GMT

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Gizmodo, world's biggest gadget website, hit by malware in ad

guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 27 October 2009 17.07 GMT

Hackers have been running viruses hidden in adverts on the world's biggest gadget website, Gizmodo, which receives more than 3m visitors per day, the site's editor warned on Tuesday.

Gizmodo says the "malware" was on its site "for a little while last week". Its announcement did not specify the nature of the problem, but some attacks are now able to infect some Windows machines simply when an advert is viewed. Others flash up warnings that encourage people to download and pay for programs that claim to protect them from fake viruses.

Brian Lam, the editor of the site, said in an apology on the site that the hackers who planted the script "somehow fooled our ad sales team through an elaborate scam" but that "only a few people should have been affected". However, he added, "this isn't something we take lightly".

Tags: advertising, malvertising, malware, viruses

HOW SAFE ARE FACEBOOK APPLICATIONS?

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:48:26 GMT

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How Safe Are Facebook Applications?

Recently, Roger Thompson, chief research officer at security firm AVG, discovered over half a dozen Facebook applications that had been compromised by malicious hackers. Although the apps' reach was small with relatively few users being affected, Thompson was concerned because it was the first time he had seen apps themselves hacked as opposed to something like Facebook profile pages, a common target for the still-spreading Koobface worm.

While this incident alone wouldn't generate much excitement given the low-profile nature of the applications affected, it's not the only example of unsafe applications on Facebook. Another researcher just spent an entire month scouring Facebook apps for security vulnerabilities and what he found is disturbing: six of the hacked apps were in the top ten, 9700 applications were affected, and the potential victims totaled 218 million users.

Hacked Apps Found Forcing Malicious Software on Users

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Securing the Web

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:25:48 GMT

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clipper's remarks: (These types of security checks operate in the background: they don't require you, for instance, to reenter your user name and password.)

Many web applications also "sanitize" data posted by their subscribers: if a friend posts something to your social-network page, the application probably won't show you the post without inspecting it for malicious code.
"We've looked at a lot of these web applications, and there's literally hundreds of places where these checks happen," says Nickolai Zeldovich, an assistant professor in MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab. Indeed, Zeldovich and his colleagues identified one popular web application that sanitized data in more than 1,400 places (but still had about 60 security holes).
They also, however, identified a feature that web application security checks usually had in common: "Namely," Zeldovich says, "it's that the same data is being handled in all these hundreds of places."

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A new MIT programming tool would automatically plug holes that hackers exploit.

Programmers try to identify those holes in advance and plug them with code that performs security checks; but if they find a hundred holes and miss one, their programs are still insecure.

At next week's ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, however, MIT researchers will present a new system called Resin, which automatically calls up security checks whenever they're required, even in unforeseen circumstances.

Graphic: Christine Daniloff

Typically, web programmers will associate security checks with particular application functions. If you belonged to a social-networking site, for instance, you might be able to e-mail your friends, or post remarks on their pages, or comment on their own posts, or tag their pictures, and so on. Each of these operations executes its own chunk of code, and the developer will usually attach a security check to each chunk, to ensure that the user is authorized to invoke it.

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Hotmail phish exposes most common passwords

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:48:23 GMT

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Clip Source: www.theregister.co.uk

Hotmail phish exposes most common passwords

Data from the Hotmail phishing attack proves that consumer password security remains pants.

The most common single password in the sample of 10,000 purloined Live ID login credentials posted as a text file to developer site PasteBin.com was "123456", something only marginally more secure than the traditional favourite "password".

iloveyou and (the Spanish equivalent) tequiero both appeared in the top 20 list compiled by Acunetix. O'Neil speculates the list might have been posted as part of an online spat between hackers.

The security researcher reckons it's time to re-evaluate traditional advice on how to choose passwords. "It used to be that the best security advice was to never write down your password," he said. "Today's advice however is to choose complex passwords, write them down and then put them in your wallet.

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Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:32:52 GMT

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But forget bike locks and hotel room safes: These days, Tobias is attacking the lock famous for protecting places like military installations and the homes of American presidents and British royals.

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Phishers Hack Thousands of Hotmail Accounts

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:12:36 GMT

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Phishers Hack Thousands of Hotmail Accounts

Hackers posted a list of passwords to more than 10,000 Hotmail accounts last week, but the list was quickly removed. The BBC says it has now obtained the list, and Microsoft finally acknowledged on Monday that the accounts had indeed been compromised. The hackers got the information, according to Microsoft, using a "phishing" attack, in which they lured victims into revealing passwords and other personal data by directing them to a fake Web site. BBC News and the Web site that first reported the attack, neowin.net, have "seen a list of 10,028 names beginning with the letters A and B," according to the British news service. The accounts "predominately originate in Europe" and include addresses ending in hotmail.com, msn.com, and live.com.

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Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:22:25 GMT

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phishing attack Gmail,Hotmail, msn users

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:28:17 GMT

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Hotmail, msn users hit in 'phishing attack'

Thousands of Hotmail users' details have been posted online after what Microsoft says is likely to be a phishing attack.

Neowin.net first reported the leak when it found username and password details posted online at pastebin.com, a site where developers share code.

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Gmail users targeted in hacker attacks

Gmail users have now been targeted in a phishing scam that has affected thousands of webmail users - from Hotmail, Yahoo, msn, Windows Live and AOL.

Hackers have set their sights on Google's Gmail email service after revelations of widespread attacks on Microsoft's Hotmail yesterday.

It stressed that it was a phishing scam which tricked users into giving away their own passwords, not an internal systems failure, that led to the problem.

Google had the following advice for Gmail users who fear they've been one of the scammer's victims.

Tags: phishing, attack, gmail, hotmail, msn, users

Dozens charged in phishing scam

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:16:59 GMT

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Dozens charged in phishing scam

LOS ANGELES - US and Egyptian authorities have charged nearly 100 people with helping an identity theft ring steal money from thousands of bank accounts.

An FBI statement says an indictment unsealed on Wednesday in Los Angeles charges more than 50 people in the United States with running the "phishing" scheme, and Egyptian authorities have charged an additional 47.

The FBI says it's the largest number of defendants ever charged in a cybercrime case.

The indictment claims Egyptian hackers used emails to direct victims to phony bank websites, where they were asked to provide account numbers. Authorities say the crooks then raided their bank accounts.

The FBI says 33 people were arrested yesterday morning, mostly in Southern California but also in Nevada and North Carolina.

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