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Mutant Koobface worm attacks Skype accounts
- 81 Minutes ago
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SophosLabs has identified a mutated Koobface worm that is apparently capable of hacking into Skype accounts. According to researcher Numaan Huq, the new Koobface variant executes various API commands
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Get That Hacker a Pimp Coat
- 84 Minutes ago
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What made the ACORN-exposing work of James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles so sensational was that they successfully infiltrated the habitats of the subjects they investigated, and observed their routine behaviors.
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'Code Red' in Australia
- 90 Minutes ago
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SYDNEY - Australian firefighters battled dozens of bushfires on Friday as record-breaking hot weather sparked "catastrophic" warnings in two states, just months after the country's worst ever wildfire
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Preparing For A Cyber Attack
- 11/20/2009
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On Nov. 11, a power failure blacked out much of Brazil and Paraguay, affecting as many as 60 million people. It's still unclear how the blackout happened, but it occurred just two days after CBS' 60 Minutes
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Hacked e-Mails Fuel Climate Change Skeptics
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Hundreds of private e-mails and documents hacked from a computer server at a British university are causing a stir among global warming skeptics, who say they show that climate scientists conspired to
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CNN - Three Charged As Comcast Hackers
- 6 Hours ago
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Christopher Allen Lewis, James Robert Black Jr. alleged to be hackers "EBK" and "Defiant" Pair allegedly hijacked Comcast's domain; Michael Paul Lebel charged with helping them 2008 stunt replaced Comcast's
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Staying a step ahead of the hackers: the importance of identifying critical Web
- 9 Hours ago
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Application Development , Application Security Tools , Application Servers , Network Security , Tags: Application Security , Cloud Computing , Hacker , Network , Networking , Security , Security Administration
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Arrested: Suspected Zeus Trojan distributors
- 14 Hours ago
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The Metropolitan Police's Central e-Crime Unit arrested two people earlier this month for the suspected criminal distribution of the Zeus Trojan. A spokesman for the Met Police told silicon.com sister
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Leading British climate centre hacked
- 6 Hours ago
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Climate researchers' documents and e-mails have been stolen and posted on the internet.iStockphoto One of Britain's leading climate-research centres has had more than 1,000 files stolen from its computers
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Hacker breaks into climate change research institution
- 7 Hours ago
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An anonymous hacker has broken into the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (CRU) and posted over 1000 confidential emails from key climate change scientists online. The emails could prove
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EU security agency highlights cloud computing risks
- 11 Hours ago
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Cloud computing users face problems including loss of control over data, difficulties proving compliance, and additional legal risks as data moves from one legal jurisdiction to another, according to
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Code Red warning tangle
- 21 Hours ago
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New fire warnings are not being publicised on the websites of Victoria's fire authorities because they still do not agree with the way the ratings are determined. Victorians this week faced the worst
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'Paranoid' China ramped up firewall on anniversary
- 21 Hours ago
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PARIS - Press rights group Reporters Without Borders said that a 'paranoid' China had blocked tens of thousands of websites ahead of the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic. The Paris-based group
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Report: Cyberattacks against the U.S. "rising sharply"
- 3 Hours ago
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During just the first half 2009, there were 43, 785 cyberattack incidents against the DoD, a new report states. If this volume is maintained for the rest of the year, it will represent a 60 percent increase
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Chandigarh school accused of teaching cyber crime
- 11/19/2009
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CHANDIGARH: Trouble seems to be brewing for St Johns High School, Sector 26. A day after the district education officer (DEO) indicted the institutes art teacher, Michael Angelo Francis, for polluting
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Can Adobe Beat the Hackers?
- 11/19/2009
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For years, Adobe Systems (ADBE) has occupied a quiet corner of the personal-computer industry. Photographers and designers use its software to clean up photos and set up Web sites. Workers everywhere
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Chinese military Web site target of cyberattacks
- 11/19/2009
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BEIJING - A Web site set up by China's Ministry of Defense this summer was hit by more than 230 million hacker attacks in its first month of operation, but none of the attacks were successful, state media
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Webroot reports on fake Verified by Visa phishing scam
- 120 Minutes ago
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IT security vendor Webroot says that a phishing scam purporting to come from Visa, the international card issuer, is scamming internet users as they start their online shopping for Christmas. According
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Hackers hit leading UK climate research unit
- 120 Minutes ago
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Reports are coming in that hackers have breached the servers of one of the world's major climate research units (CRU), posting around 61 megabytes of emails and documents to an FTP server in Russia. Unconfirmed
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