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Facebook Hires Sony Hacker GeoHot
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-06-27
George Hotz, the programmer who was recently sued by Sony for releasing instructions on how to hack the PlayStation 3, has joined Facebook, according to his status update on the social networking site. It appears that he started in May.
It's not clear what Hotz will be doing at Facebook, although
FBI Begins Disinfecting Coreflood from User PCs
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-06-22
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has finally moved ahead with the next step in its fight against the Coreflood botnet: disinfecting compromised machines.
When federal law agents
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Google Unveils DOM Snitch Testing Tool
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-06-21
Google announced a free application testing tool, dubbed "DOM Snitch," to help developers find vulnerabilities in client-side Web applications.
The tool can be used by both application
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Attackers Compromise 1.3 Million Sega Users
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-06-20
Hackers took down Sega's online gaming service and compromised accounts belonging to 1.3 million customers, the video game company confirmed June 17.
Cyber-attackers launched a
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BitCoins Heist Worth $8.75 Million
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-06-20
Attackers going after virtual currency are raking in real dollars. A megaheist over the weekend exposed hundreds of user accounts and stole approximately $8.75 million worth of virtual money.
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Attackers Exploiting Recently Patched Adobe Flash Flaw
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-06-18
Attackers are actively exploiting a Flash vulnerability that Adobe just released a fix for in its quarterly security update a few days ago.
Adobe patched the Flash bug
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RSA Executive Reveals More SecurID Breach Details
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-06-17
MALAGA, Spain - An RSA Security executive discussed in greater detail the data breach the company suffered earlier this year during a panel on zero-day attacks. During the attack,
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Autorun Malware Declined Since Update: Microsoft
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-06-15
There appears to be a significant drop in the number of computers that have been infected by malware exploiting the Windows autorun feature, according to Microsoft.
Autorun allowed
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Browsing World IPv6 Day Without Security
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-06-08
On World IPv6 Day, I am doing something that makes my security-obsessed self cringe: I am surfing the Web without any kind of security software on my laptop. More than 400 organizations,
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Facebook Enables Facial Recognition for Everyone
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-06-07
Hey, Facebook, remember that privacy by default thing that we asked for a few months ago? Well, the facial recognition feature would have been a fantastic place to start. Facebook
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LulzSec Arrest Rumor Debunked
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-06-06
The hacker group LulzSec denied that one of its members was in FBI custody hours before it released more information illegally obtained from Sony's servers.
According to a post on the Full Disclosure mailing list on June 6, a member of the hacker group who'd been behind various attacks on Sony,
Apple Hires Jailbreak Developer
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-06-04
Who says jailbreaking doesn't pay? Apparently it paid off big-time for a software programmer who built a notification app for the iPhone that's better than the one from Apple.
Apple hired Peter
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Apple's MacDefender Removal Tool Bypassed By New Variant
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-06-01
It's a game of whack-a-mole. Apple pushed out a security update that could detect and remove known MacDefender variants from Mac OS X (Snow Leopard) on May 31. A new version of the fake antivirus that could get past Apple's File Quarantine was spotted in the wild less than eight
PBS.org Hacked With Fake Tupac News Story
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-05-31
A group of hackers angered by PBS Frontline's WikiLeaks documentary posted a fake news story onto the TV station's Website and compromised servers and databases in revenge.
The group, The
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LinkedIn Cookie Flaw Lets Attackers Login
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-05-27
LinkedIn joins the ranks of major Websites with serious security vulnerabilities that would allow attackers to access user accounts without needing passwords, a researcher said.
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