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Brilliant failure by TSA contractor
Which compromised the entire CLEAR travel database to include names, driver’s license and passport details which were stored UNENCRYPTED!
And what better way to do that then to get your hands on the details of everyone on the list. Well, it appears that the TSA has forgotten its middle name, and failed to protect its own [...]
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5Aug2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Inside insight = zero day pro
Ever wonder who you are buying those zero day exploits from?
Juergen Marester, a 24-year-old French network consultant, needed seed capital to start his own computer-security company. So he turned to his off-hours hobby — black-hat hacking — and did what a growing number of hackers are doing: selling “0days” (pronounced “oh-days” or “zero days,” it [...]
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2Jul2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
DDOS - Tricks of the Trade
It is a bizarre technology environment we live in when this is a crime:
A 21-year-old Northern California man agreed to a two-year prison deal Tuesday after pleading guilty to charges of unleashing distributed-denial-of-service attacks against two web sites.
Gregory King, known as Silenz, Silenz420, sZ, GregK, and Gregk707, admitted in U.S. District Court in Sacramento that [...]
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More Hack-fu
The Chinese can’t stop, won’t stop.
Two longtime House members say computers in their Capitol Hill offices have been hacked by sources apparently working out of China.Virginia Rep. Frank Wolf says four of his computers were hacked. New Jersey Rep. Chris Smith says two of his computers were compromised.
The two lawmakers are longtime critics of Beijing.
In [...]
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Hackers warn of hacker threat….
Up next, bees warn of bee stings…
High street chains will be the next victims of cyber terrorism, some of the world’s elite hackers have warned.
They claim it is only a “matter of time” before the likes of Tesco and Marks & Spencer are targeted.
Criminals could use the kind of tactics which crippled Estonia’s [...]
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26Apr2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Security Cost Center
Even in security companies, security is the first thing cut.
A Symantec employee tells us that on April 18, management will cut most of the company’s engineers in Durham, North Carolina and over a third of its Mountain View workforce. “This is not unexpected,” our tipster tells us. “Since the merger of Veritas and Symantec there [...]
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7Apr2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
All your spyware are belong to us
It looks like BT thinks it is okay to install spyware on their customers computers. Nice.
BT has admitted that it secretly used customer data to test Phorm’s advertising targeting technology last summer, and that it covered it up when customers and The Register raised questions over the suspicious redirects.
The national telecoms provider now faces legal [...]
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4Apr2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Chinese hackers attack Save Darfur
The FBI has opened a preliminary investigation of a report that China-based hackers have penetrated the e-mail accounts of leaders and members of the Save Darfur Coalition, a national advocacy group pushing to end the six-year-old conflict in Sudan. The accounts of 10 members were hacked into between early February and last week, and the [...]
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21Mar2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Privacy lapses on sale in aisle 7
So common and so under reported…
A security breach at an East Coast supermarket chain exposed 4.2 million credit and debit card numbers and led to 1,800 cases of fraud, the Hannaford Bros. grocery chain announced Monday.
Hannaford said credit and debit card numbers were stolen during the card authorization process and about 4.2 million unique account [...]
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Remember kids, that’s gwb@whitehouse.com
A British factory worker has shut down a tourism site he owned at the request of the U.S. air force after he received thousands of e-mails sent to his domain that were meant for military personnel — among them e-mails with flight plans for Air Force One, the U.S. presidential plane, as well as passwords [...]
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7Mar2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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