Tablets that could potentially take on the iPad are getting closer to market — and some of them are taking direct aim at Apple. PC maker Lenovo has chosen a name for its Android tablet that it says will be in the hands of consumers by the end of the year. The device will...
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Hackers have built a computer virus that attacks Siemens AG’s widely used industrial control systems, creating malicious software that analysts said can be used for espionage and sabotage. The German company said the malware is a Trojan worm dubbed Stuxnet that spreads via infected USB thumb drives, exploiting a yet-to-be-patched vulnerability in Microsoft Corp’s...
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According to security researcher Craig Heffner, about half the existing models of home routers, including most Linksys, Dell, and Verizon, are vulnerable to being hacked. The hack relies on tricking people to visit a malicious website. From that point on, the router itself can be hijacked and the poor user redirected pretty much anywhere...
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Nearly a month after a Google engineer released details of a new Windows XP flaw, criminals have dramatically ramped up online attacks that leverage the bug. Microsoft reported Wednesday that it has now logged more than 10,000 attacks. “At first, we only saw legitimate researchers testing innocuous proof-of-concepts. Then, early on June 15th, the...
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Blogger Nguyen Hue Chi is locked in an electronic game of cat and mouse with a mystery cyberattacker—widely believed to be the government. Chi and his colleagues have set up a series of websites and blogs questioning government policy in the past year, only to see them attacked and blocked. Observers blame the communist...
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The web sites of more than a whopping 200 Australian organisations were hijacked and vandalised in a spate of hacks last week. In the largest single attack, a hacker gained administrative access to the Direct Admin server management system used by a hosting provider, who Computerworld Australia will not name, and suspended 159 accounts...
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Price: Free, Version: 1.2 -> 1.3 (iTunes) Description: Do you have what it takes to save San Francisco from an alien invasion? San Francisco is under attack from an invasion of alien ships and UFOs! It?s up to you and your trusty WWII Corsair single prop fighter plane to save the city! Will you...
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In the latest update to Snow Leopard, Apple included software to protect Mac computers from a Trojan horse that has been distributed by attackers disguised as iPhoto, but which opens a back door on the machine, security firm Sophos said last week. When Apple released OS X 10.6.4 last week, the company said it...
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Windows 7 and Mac OS X each have a new, fundamental flaw that will be presented at the Hack in the Box conference in Amsterdam in July. These security holes are so close to the core operating systems that fixing them may be very hard. Windows 7 has an issue in the 64-bit edition...
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Online criminals are scanning the internet and attacking Windows 2000 machines that haven’t had a recent Windows Media Service patch installed, according to Symantec. Symantec first spotted the attacks on Monday, saying that they are extremely limited. Symantec’s detection network picked up just a handful of attempts, but the code used in the attacks...
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T security and data protection firm Sophos is advising Facebook users to be cautious following a widespread clickjacking attack that hit hundreds of thousands of users on the popular networking site over the holiday weekend. Affected profiles can be identified by having apparently ‘liked’ links with titles including: “LOL This girl gets OWNED after...
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The personal details of 4.3 million job seekers may have been compromised in a “concerted and sophisticated” hack attack on Trinity Mirror’s recruitment sites. According to Trinity Mirror, no actual CV details were exposed during the attack on sites such as Planet Recruit and JobSearch, even though the company believes email address and passwords...
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By now, all but the most geriatric Web users know about phishing. Usually it takes the form of a seemingly-official email from a bank or other money-related Web service. Most of the time these attacks are painfully obvious — but what if you removed the email attack vector? What if you removed those daft...
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