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Sony Woes Continue With SQL Injection Attacks

Sony is not having a good spring at all. Just days after the PlayStation Network came back online after an attack compromised 77 million...

Sony Data Breach Cost $171.1 Million, So Far

Sony ended its fiscal year with one disaster - the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit northeast Japan in March - and began the...

Sony Server Hijacked in Credit Card Phishing Scam

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...

Siemens, DHS Ask Researcher to Cancel SCADA Vulnerabilities Talk

A planned presentation on security vulnerabilities in Siemens industrial control systems was pulled at the last minute because the information was deemed too dangerous.Independent...

Sony PSN Hackers Used Amazon EC2 in Attack

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)...

AcroScrub Manages Adobe Software Versions

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...

Fox.com Hackers Steal Login Info, Deface LinkedIn Accounts

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...

Adobe Flash Player 10.3 Fixes Bugs, Clears Cookies

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...

Google Chromebook Poses Cloud Security Concerns

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...

WebGL Flaw Exposes GPU to DoS, Remote Code Executin Attacks

Web users should turn off 3D graphics rendering in Firefox 4 and Google Chrome because of security flaws that would give attackers access to...