Friday 3 September, 2010

hacking

  • Hackers find a new target in payroll processing 06/08/2010 06:54:00

    Hackers broke into a Ceridian payroll account, but the fraud was thwarted
    Depression-era bank robber Slick Willie Sutton is famous for saying that he robbed banks "because that's where the money is." If he were around today, he'd have other options.

  • Security guard pleads guilty to hacking his employer 17/05/2010 04:17:00

    He was caught after posting videos of his nighttime hospital hacking adventures to YouTube
    A former security guard has pleaded guilty to charges that he broke into his employer's computers while working the night shift at a Dallas hospital.

  • Drug-dealing spammers hit Gmail accounts 21/04/2010 06:21:00

    Hackers are breaking into Gmail accounts to flog Viagra and other drugs
    Google is investigating a growing number of reports that hackers are breaking into legitimate Gmail accounts and then using them to send spam messages.

  • Network Solutions sites hacked again 20/04/2010 04:15:00

    Newest wave infects hosted sites, sends users to Ukrainian attack server
    A week after Web hosting company Network Solutions dealt with a large-scale infection of WordPress-driven blogs, the company acknowledged that other sites it hosts have been compromised.

  • Your BlackBerry's dirty little security secret 20/04/2010 02:39:00

    The Moneky Steals The Berries
    Tyler Shields, senior member of the Veracode Research Lab, spends a lot of time picking apart those BlackBerry devices that are ubiquitous across the enterprise. What he's found may disappoint those who thought they were secure.

  • Hacker conference to address emerging Web threats 12/04/2010 07:50:00

    The four-day conference will address enterprise applications, hardware and big-picture Internet issues
    The Black Hat security conference will kick off next week in Barcelona, with training sessions and briefings from some of the most talented security researchers in the industry.

  • E-mail accounts of foreign journalists in China hacked 31/03/2010 17:23:00

    Several e-mail accounts disabled by Yahoo last week, group says
    The e-mail accounts of eight foreign journalists working in China and Taiwan were hacked recently, leading Yahoo to suspend several of the accounts last week, the Foreign Correspondent's Club of China (FCCC) said Wednesday.

  • IE8, iPhone will fall first day of hacking contest, predicts organizer 19/03/2010 06:54:00

    Pwn2Own sponsor bets researchers will hack Windows 7, Microsoft's browser, Apple's phone
    Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8, not Apple's Safari, will be the first browser to fall in next week's Pwn2Own hacking challenge, the contest organizer said today.

  • Iran hacks opposition Web sites, arrests cyber activists 15/03/2010 06:43:00

    Iranian government say sites were affiliated with US espionage networks
    Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps hacked into 29 Web sites affiliated with U.S. espionage networks, Iran's semi-official Fars News Agency reported on Sunday.

  • Chinese schools deny role in Google hack 22/02/2010 06:09:00

    Cyberattacks on Google were reportedly traced to computers at two schools in China
    Two schools in China where computers were reportedly linked to cyberattacks on Google and other companies have denied involvement in the hack, Chinese state media said Sunday.

  • Criminal hacker 'Iceman' gets 13 years 15/02/2010 05:14:00

    Max Butler ran CardersMarket.com, an online forum for selling stolen credit card numbers
    A former security researcher turned criminal hacker has been sentenced to 13 years in federal prison for hacking into financial institutions and stealing credit card account numbers.

  • Australian parliament Web site attacked 11/02/2010 05:32:00

    Denial-of-service attack comes after warning from Anonymous
    The Australian Parliament's Web site was hit by an apparent denial-of-service attack Wednesday, two days after the hacking group Anonymous threatened attacks over the government's plan to filter Web content.

  • Indian pleads guilty in overseas stock hacking scheme 08/02/2010 07:50:00

    The group of hackers compromised brokerage accounts, then pumped up the prices of stocks
    An Indian national pleaded guilty Friday to conspiracy and aggravated identity-theft charges related to an international fraud scheme to hack into online brokerage accounts in the U.S. and use them to manipulate stock prices, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

  • Hackers hit Network Solutions customers 21/01/2010 06:49:00

    Hundreds of hosted Web sites hit with mass defacement, the company says.
    Hackers have managed to deface several hundred Web sites hosted by Network Solutions, the company said Tuesday.

  • What Gmail hack? China spins news of Google threat 19/01/2010 08:11:00

    Chinese reports say little of alleged attacks on the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists
    Chinese state media has spun Google's threat to leave China as a purely commercial move, as authorities there apparently work to limit discussion of human rights issues raised by Google.
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