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Sony Ericsson Latest Victim of SQL Injection Attack
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-05-26
In what is becoming a regular occurrence, Sony has shut down another service after another attack. This time, the vulnerability was in the Canadian e-commerce site for Sony
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Microsoft Patches XSS Flaw in Hotmail
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-05-25
Microsoft patched a cross-site scripting flaw on its Hotmail service that was being exploited by cyber-criminals to read and steal e-mail messages.
The flaw allowed the cyber-criminals to
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Sony Woes Continue With SQL Injection Attacks
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-05-24
Sony is not having a good spring at all. Just days after the PlayStation Network came back online after an attack compromised 77 million user accounts, two Sony properties were hit by SQL injection attacks.
The same group that targeted Fox.com earlier this month used a SQL injection attack to expose
Sony Data Breach Cost $171.1 Million, So Far
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-05-23
Sony ended its fiscal year with one disaster - the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit northeast Japan in March - and began the new one with another - a massive data breach in April. They both will have a significant impact on the company's bottom line, according to Sony.
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Sony Server Hijacked in Credit Card Phishing Scam
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-05-22
Attention Sony: Cyber-criminals are using one of your servers to run a phishing site.
Criminals had set up a phishing site imitating an Italian credit card company on a domain
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Siemens, DHS Ask Researcher to Cancel SCADA Vulnerabilities Talk
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-05-19
A planned presentation on security vulnerabilities in Siemens industrial control systems was pulled at the last minute because the information was deemed too
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Sony PSN Hackers Used Amazon EC2 in Attack
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-05-16
Even with the Sony PlayStation Network data breach, Amazon can't catch a break. The PSN hackers leased servers from Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to launch their attack in April, according to a report from Bloomberg, which cited "a person with knowledge of the matter."
Sony was forced to shut down
AcroScrub Manages Adobe Software Versions
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-05-15
PDF files, which convenient for sharing documents via e-mail, have also become a popular attack vector. While Adobe has worked hard to fix vulnerabilities in Acrobat and Reader, it has been a challenge for IT departments to make sure all versions of the software within the enterprise are up-to-date.
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Fox.com Hackers Steal Login Info, Deface LinkedIn Accounts
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-05-14
Four hackers gained access to a database of fox.com e-mail accounts and Twitter accounts of two affiliates just for fun, or "lulz."
Calling itself Lulz Security, the group
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Adobe Flash Player 10.3 Fixes Bugs, Clears Cookies
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-05-13
Adobe released Flash Player 10.3 with enhanced privacy controls and security fixes for 11 remote code execution vulnerabilities.
A mere month after Adobe rolled out an update to
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Google Chromebook Poses Cloud Security Concerns
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-05-12
Google's newly announced Chromebook poses some interesting security concerns, as it protects the endpoint while leaving the data vulnerable to attackers, a Kaspersky Lab expert said.
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WebGL Flaw Exposes GPU to DoS, Remote Code Executin Attacks
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-05-11
Web users should turn off 3D graphics rendering in Firefox 4 and Google Chrome because of security flaws that would give attackers access to the machine's hardware,
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Shavlik Offers Free Patch Management Tools to SMB
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-05-10
Small-to-midsized businesses have smaller IT budgets but face the same security threats as the larger enterprises. In fact, they may be more vulnerable to cyber-attackers precisely
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Sony Attackers Stole Info on 2,500 Consumers from 'Old Server'
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-05-09
The bad news doesn't stop at Sony, as the company admitted another server was compromised. Considering how many people have already had their information stolen from Sony,
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Hackers Compromise bin Laden Live-Blogger's Site
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-05-02
The man who inadvertently live-blogged on Twitter the Navy SEAL operation that took out Osama bin Laden on May 1 received an unexpected gift to go with his 15 minutes of fame.
His Web site was compromised with a malware kit to download malware onto site visitors' computers.
When Sohaib Athar posted
