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Three Charged For Comcast Security Breach Last Year

Three Charged For Comcast Security Breach Last Year

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Three hackers have been charged by federal indictment over their alleged involvement in infiltrating the security of Comcast.net and subsequently redirecting the visitors of the website to web pages under their control a year back. The hacker gang, called “Kryogeniks”, modified the DNS records and is estimated to have inflicted monetary damages worth $128,000. The FBI identified Christopher Allen Lewis, 19, from Newark, Robert Black Jr., 20, from Tumwater,...



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Report Sheds Light on Stratfor Anonymous Hack

Report Sheds Light on Stratfor Anonymous Hack

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Details regarding hacktivist group Anonymous' latest strike on Stratfor, a US based security think tank, have started emerging. Anonymous hackers breached into the network of Stratfor earlier last week, and managed to steal...


Chinese Hackers Hack into US Chamber of Commerce

Chinese Hackers Hack into US Chamber of Commerce

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The US Chamber of Commerce has been hacked by Chinese hackers, with the nefarious few behind the attack gaining access to information of three million plus members. The worst part of this hack is that it could have occurred a...


Late News: Fake iPhone 5 Available in China, ManTech Possibly Hacked by Anonymous, Amazon Stops Appstore Submissions

Late News: Fake iPhone 5 Available in China, ManTech Possibly Hacked by Anonymous, Amazon Stops Appstore Submissions

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Apple's fifth generation iPhone is expected to arrive this September; the general consensus is, unless you are in China where the handset is apparently already available - from counterfeiters. Millions of consumers are eagerly...


Google Adds Hacked Site Alerts To Searches

Google Adds Hacked Site Alerts To Searches

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Google has tweaked its search engine to notify web users if a particular website has been compromised.In a blog post, the company said that the new hacked notification feature is based on a set of automated systems that flag up a...


Email Security Under The Microscope

Email Security Under The Microscope

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Securing your email is a lot more than simply backing up your email resource and using - if possible - multiple layers of IT security software. It's about constantly reviewing your email security arrangements. This fact was...


Twitter Hacking Shows Startup's Ambitious Plans

Twitter Hacking Shows Startup's Ambitious Plans

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An anonymous hacker has revealed confidential corporate as well as personal details relating to the popular microblogging website Twitter and its workforce after breaking into electronic account of an employee of the company. As...


Telegraph.co.uk Gets Hacked Using SQL Injection

Telegraph.co.uk Gets Hacked Using SQL Injection

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Another day, another high profile hack; this time, the online website of British UK newspaper Telegraph has apparently been compromised by Romanian whitehat hacking group, Hackersblog. The group, which aims to put online...


Comment : GSS says US hotel WiFi hack attack could happen in UK

Comment : GSS says US hotel WiFi hack attack could happen in UK

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IT security consultancy Global Secure Systems has warned that insecure WiFi systems installed at hotels across the UK could be hacked with embarrassing consequences, as has happened with the high-end Thompson hotel chain in the...


Internet ‘Poisoning’ Opens Corporate Networks Security Vulnerability

Internet ‘Poisoning’ Opens Corporate Networks Security Vulnerability

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A major new security risk, concerning ‘DNS cache  poisoning’, has been discovered which can reroute web browser and email traffic to fraudulent criminal servers without the security protection in place being...


Oops - WhiteHouse.org Hacked - malware infections a-gogo

Oops - WhiteHouse.org Hacked - malware infections a-gogo

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It seems that WhiteHouse.org, the parody Web site of President George W Bush, has been hacked, resulting in visitors to the site getting an automatic malware drop.According to Trend Micro, which discovered the infection, the Web...


Companies warned of need to protect data as new Google hacking utility released

Companies warned of need to protect data as new Google hacking utility released

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Cyber-Ark has warned companies to protect their data using all available resources, following news that the Cult of the Dead Cow hacking group has released Goolag Scan, a hacking utility overlay for Google. "Advanced Google...


Bank scammers scammed, says security researcher

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Many of the people behind identity theft scams are themselves having data stolen from them in the process, a security researcher has revealed.Phishers, who trick online banking users into typing in their details to fake sites,...


Swedish `security consultant' arrested

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Interesting to see that a Swedish security consultant - who claimed to have discovered a security flaw in a private email system used by embassies around the world - was arrested late last weekThe consultant, who has been named...


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Web 2.0 style services and applications have laid the foundation of a new battlefield between hackers and criminals and the rest of us, a Security Expert speaking at Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) U.S. 2007...


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Turkey/Sweden hacking war escalates

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Behavioural analysis IT security specialist, Tier-3, says that companies can learn a lot from the escalating war currently taking place between Turkish and Swedish hackers."Reportedly this war kicked off when several Swedish...

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