Cloned Facebook profiles plague users
Scammers can set up fake Facebook pages using a person’s name and photos, and for many, it’s hard to fight back.
View ArticleSharik Back for More After Php.Net Compromise
Sharik is a Trojan which injects itself into legitimate processes and adds registry entries for an added level of persistence. The infection also sends information about the victim’s PC to a remote...
View ArticleTwo Singaporeans arrested for hacking…
Two Singaporean men have been arrested for allegedly defacing the president’s website during a recent rash of cyber attacks in the city-state, police said Thursday. Incoming search terms for the...
View ArticleVirus can attack ‘any bank in any country’
Kaspersky Lab has recorded several thousand attempts to infect computers used for online banking with a malicious programme that its creators claim can attack “any bank in any country”.
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Dutch privacy watchdog says Google breaks data law. Thomas Escritt at Reuters reports that Dutch privacy regulators have concluded Google’s practice of building data profiles with information from many...
View ArticleJPEGs Leveraged for Targeted Attacks
Trend Micro has found that some cyber-attacks rely on maliciously crafted JPEG files to perform updates on themselves or to deploy new threats. The image files contain encrypted data that the company...
View ArticleTechies vs. NSA: Encryption arms race escalates
Encrypted email, secure instant messaging and other privacy services are booming in the wake of the National Security Agency’s recently revealed surveillance programs.
View ArticleTwo Singaporeans Arrested for Hacking President’s Website
SINGAPORE – Two Singaporean men have been arrested for allegedly defacing the president’s website during a recent rash of cyber attacks in the city-state, police said Thursday. The men, aged 17 and 42,...
View ArticleLinux Worm Targets “Internet of things”
Malware hunters have stumbled upon a new Linux worm squirming through an old PHP vulnerability to infect hidden, Internet-enabled devices.
View ArticlePirate Bay founder extradited from Sweden
Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg is suspected of hacking into a public database and stealing social security numbers, but police have so far not released the charges against him Pirate Bay...
View ArticleSurvey Finds 83 Percent of Travelers Use Public Wi-Fi
Still, 82 percent say they’re very or extremely concerned about their security online.
View ArticleUniversity of Pittsburgh Medical Center Acknowledges Privacy Breach
Almost 1,300 patients’ names, birthdates, contact information, treatment information, diagnosis information and Social Security numbers were accessed.
View ArticleData Breach at UW Medicine Exposes 90,000 Patients’ Information
Names, medical record numbers, addresses, phone numbers, dates of service, charge amounts, birthdates and Social Security numbers were accessed.
View ArticleCobrapost stings Narendra Modi again, alleges ‘misuse’ of Facebook, YouTube,...
Investigative website Cobrapost today alleged that IT companies are misusing social media platforms like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter to artificially boost politicians popularity and malign their...
View ArticleSecond suspect charged in Istana webpage hacking
MELVIN Teo, the second suspect in the hacking of an Istana webpage, was charged in court with two counts of unauthorised modification of computer material under the Computer Misuse and Cybersecurity Act.
View Article‘Ram-Leela’ actor Gulshan Devaiah’s Facebook account hacked
His Facebook account was tampered with, by some hacker. The online imposter is said to have spammed Gulshan’s friends with unwanted mails and requests for a drink.
View ArticlePayPal “Limited Account Access” Emails Used for Phishing
Emails claiming to be issued by PayPal online payment service and asking for account login details along with other personal information in order to grant access to sensitive account features are...
View ArticleBitcoin Miner Bundled in Advertising-Based Software
Bitcoin mining software has been detected to be part of third party applications inadvertently installed by users together with legitimate applications.Following a request for assistance from one of...
View ArticleAltera Upgrades Suricata Network Security Monitoring Engine
According to a release, the demonstration shows an accelerated Suricata Engine on a Stratix V FPGA developed with the Altera SDK for OpenCL.
View ArticleTarget’s Black Friday Weekend Sales Are off to a Good Start
Target started with a bang this holiday season. The Black Friday sales initiative had the clientele in a shopping frenzy.
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