MANILA (AFP) – – The Philippines on Sunday ordered all government offices to tighten Internet security after its main information website was brought down by hackers. “We are alerting all government agencies to review and improve security of their websites in view of the hacking of the website this afternoon,” presidential spokesman Herminio Coloma...
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Hackers are using tales of dead celebrities to build out Zeus botnets by duping users into compromising their own PCs, security experts said today. The list of celebrities, actors and singers for the most part, with an occasional sports star tossed in, range from Jennifer Anniston and Tom Cruise to Kanye West and Jay...
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Some of the world’s most popular Windows programs are vulnerable to attacks that exploit a major bug in the way they load critical code libraries, according to sites tracking attack code. Among the Windows applications that are vulnerable to exploits that many have dubbed “DLL load hijacking” are the Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera...
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Of all the mods/hacks I’ve seen, this is both the most ingenious and somewhat scary. A pair of bored yet crafty American (not Dutch!) fellows took a retired Army Drone and re-deployed it with a new, lesser violent mission — to sniff for WiFi networks. Controlling the drone only needs human intervention for takeoff...
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If you believed Axl Rose’s Twitter account, the Guns N’ Roses frontman had unilaterally canceled the band’s upcoming European tour. The message posted on Sunday evening stated: “All upcoming Guns N’ Roses dates are officially cancelled. Please contact your place of purchase for any refunds.” It always seemed likely to be a hoax: Rose...
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As many as five million Web sites hosted by Network Solutions have been serving up malware, probably for several months, a security expert said today. “This is one of the biggest infections for drive-by download attacks that I’ve seen,” said Wayne Huang, co-founder and CTO of Santa Clara, Calif.-based Armorize Technologies, a Web application...
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Hackers have hit a UK bank with a Zeus version 3 Trojan, compromising around 3,000 customer accounts and taking £675,000 between 5 July and 6 August. They combined the Zeus malware with exploit toolkits to remain undetected by anti-fraud systems, M86 Security Labs has discovered. Once the victim’s system had been infected and they...
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One of the alleged ringleaders behind the 2008 hack of RBS WorldPay has been extradited to the U.S., where he was arraigned Friday in the Northern District of Georgia on charges that he helped coordinate the global $9.5 million bank card heist. Sergei Tsurikov, 26, of Tallinn, Estonia, has been charged in Atlanta with...
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In November 2008, with the nation transfixed by a presidential election and a collapsing economy, a group of international hackers infiltrated the computer network of a major financial services company in what authorities describe as one of the most sophisticated attacks ever concocted. Their work was furtive and impressive: Around the time Barack Obama...
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BEIJING, CHINA – Although cyber attacks have been frequently reported across the mainland, China is not home to a vast web of malicious hackers, as many attacks here originate from countries overseas, according to analysts. “It is very complicated to locate an original attack”, said a participant at the 9th Xcon conference, an annual...
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One visit to a booby-trapped website could direct attackers to a person’s home, a security expert has shown. The attack, thought up by hacker Samy Kamkar, exploits shortcomings in many routers to find out a key identification number. It uses this number and widely available net tools to find out where a router is...
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LAS VEGAS — Roughly 10,000 computer hacking enthusiasts, poseurs, geeks, nerds and government agents gathered for DefCon last weekend. In its 18th year, the world’s largest hacker convention draws people from all walks of life to learn about the latest hacking techniques. Talks this year ranged from hardware hacker Chris Paget’s demonstration of real-time...
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China’s rapid emergence as a hotspot for criminal hacking activities is enabled by the open and unfettered availability of sophisticated hacking tools, according to security researchers attending the Black Hat conference here this week. Many of the hacking tools are inexpensive, highly customizable, and easy to use. Most of the early users of the...
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