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American jailed after assisting NZ hacker in botnet attack

American jailed after assisting NZ hacker in botnet attack

An American who helped a New Zealand hacker has been sentenced to 90 days in prison and five years of probation.
Dan Raywood Oct 23 2008 10:12AM Security
Phishing goes back to basics for attack methods

Phishing goes back to basics for attack methods

Phishers are adopting a 'back to basics' approach with attacks.
Dan Raywood Oct 22 2008 9:55AM Security
Teenage hacker charged for DDOS attack on Scientology

Teenage hacker charged for DDOS attack on Scientology

A teenager who took part in a distributed denial of service attack against the so-called church of Scientology has been charged.
Iain Thomson Oct 20 2008 6:44AM Security
Hackers take aim at World Bank

Hackers take aim at World Bank

Network under constant attack, claims report.
Shaun Nichols Oct 13 2008 3:32PM Security
Hackers take aim at World Bank

Hackers take aim at World Bank

The World Bank's internal networks have been compromisd by outside attackers at least six times in the last year, according to a recent report.
Shaun Nichols Oct 13 2008 12:07AM Security
BusinessWeek suffers SQL injection attack

BusinessWeek suffers SQL injection attack

Business news magazine BusinessWeek has become the latest victim of the rising phenomenon of SQL injection attacks.
Shaun Nichols Sep 17 2008 10:09AM Security
Hackers attack Cern

Hackers attack Cern

A Greek hacking crew have come close to getting into the controls of Cern’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which went live last week.
Iain Thomson Sep 15 2008 9:00AM Security
Fedora Project back online after hack

Fedora Project back online after hack

The Fedora Project has begun issuing updates to its Linux distribution following a hacker break-in.
Dan Raywood Sep 12 2008 9:51AM Security
Best Western downplays hack attack

Best Western downplays hack attack

Hotel chain Best Western has downplayed concerns over a recent hack attack that was reported to have put at risk the personal details of all its customers since 2007.
Madeline Bennett Aug 28 2008 7:42AM Security
Web 2.0: Attack of the JavaScript malware

Web 2.0: Attack of the JavaScript malware

Imagine you are sitting in front of your computer and all of a sudden you hear weird sounds coming from your hard drive.
Itzik Kotler, security operation centre, Radware Aug 27 2008 11:39AM Security
Thousands of web servers hit by SQL attack

Thousands of web servers hit by SQL attack

A wave of new SQL injection attacks appears to have infected several thousand web servers, including government and financial services sites.
Andrew Donoghue Aug 15 2008 10:00AM Security
Fake IE7 attack surfaces

Fake IE7 attack surfaces

Spam email pushes malware.
Shaun Nichols Aug 12 2008 4:01PM Security
Phishing attack targets Monster.com

Phishing attack targets Monster.com

A major job site is the latest phishing attack target. According to a McAfee Avert Labs blog, Monster.com was made to seem the source of phishing emails.
Sue Marquette Poremba Jul 16 2008 9:55AM Security
Icahn steps up attack on Yahoo board

Icahn steps up attack on Yahoo board

The public spat between billionaire corporate raider Carl Icahn and Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock has continued with yet another open letter from Icahn to Yahoo..
Clement James Jun 10 2008 2:13PM Software
Users should quit using Safari until patch, says Microsoft

Users should quit using Safari until patch, says Microsoft

Microsoft is warning Windows XP and Vista users who have installed Safari on their machines that a blended attack could result in malicious code being installed.
Dan Kaplan Jun 5 2008 11:58AM Security
Motorola RAZR vulnerable to JPEG attack

Motorola RAZR vulnerable to JPEG attack

Hackers could run malicious code on the RAZR device by sending a corrupt image by MMS, according to an advisory from TippingPoint
Richard Thurston May 30 2008 9:58AM Security
Aussie Govt. mail server targeted for attack

Aussie Govt. mail server targeted for attack

Global security vendor MessageLabs has claimed its heuristic scanner - Skeptic - has intercepted a Trojan specifically targeted at Australian domains.
Lilia Guan May 20 2008 2:57PM Security
Fake MP3 attack hits 360,000 PCs

Fake MP3 attack hits 360,000 PCs

Attackers are using fake MP3 files to launch one of the largest malware attacks in recent years, experts warned today..
Shaun Nichols May 9 2008 7:39AM Security
Fake P2P media files lead to adware attack

Fake P2P media files lead to adware attack

Researchers at McAfee said they have detected the largest outbreak of malware in three years, an infection impacting hundreds of thousands of users whose machines contain poisoned media files.
Dan Kaplan May 8 2008 9:53AM Security
Hackers launch Trojan spam attack

Hackers launch Trojan spam attack

Security experts have uncovered a spam-sending scheme described as being of "Byzantine complexity"..
Robert Jaques May 2 2008 3:33PM Security

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