A group of hackers has recently published detailed information from an underground credit card company. On July 23rd, an anonymous group claimed to have compromised a server of an online credit card processor company. At that time, however, the extent of the compromise was unclear. Looking at the data that was published leads us to [...]
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Underground Credit Card Processor Compromised
“2010 Pwn2Own” is an annual contest wherein contestants are invited to hack a variety of Web applications and platforms such as Web browsers and mobile phones for cash prizes and benefits. Successful hackers include Dutch hacker Peter Vreugdenhil for Internet Explorer (IE) 8, German hacker “Nils” for Firefox, and Charlie Miller for Safari.
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Web Browsers Get “Owned” in “2010 Pwn2Own”
As reported by Reuters and the BBC, the official website set up by the Spanish government to mark it’s six-month presidency of the EU was briefly compromised yesterday afternoon.
Mischievous hackers reportedly took advantage of Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities on www.eu2010.es and replaced an image of Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero with the smiling face of [...]
News involving celebrity deaths (real or hoax) have a habit of spreading across the Internet like wildfire, sensationalizing bits of information to entice readers. So, it is easy to see why pranksters and cybercriminals exploit the fact that people love gossip.
So when rumors of Johnny Depp’s supposed death due to a car crash broke out, [...]
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Hackers Exploit Actor Johnny Depp’s Death Hoax
Do you know how to guard against scareware? How about Trojan horse text messages? Or social network data harvesting? Malicious hackers are a resourceful bunch, and their methods continually evolve to target the ways we use our computers now. New attack techniques allow bad guys to stay one step ahead of security software and to get the better of even cautious and well-informed PC users.
