filed in Internet, Privacy on Sep.23, 2008
The FBI over the weekend executed a search on the apartment of a University of Tennessee student suspected in the hacking of Republican vice presidential candidate Governor Sarah Palin’s Yahoo e-mail account.
It has been reported that hackers broke into the personal site of Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly, who had been carrying on for several [...]
filed in Privacy, Software on Sep.18, 2008
There is a cool tool that scans databases such as MYSQL in an attempt to find accounts using passwords like “password,” “12345,” “qwerty” and “abc123.”
The program runs through a list of account names and attempts to login using a number of password combination’s to gain access to a users account. This kind of hack can [...]
filed in Computers, Internet on Aug.26, 2008
If you received a message from a “friend” in the last few days saying that you’ve been caught on tape, it’s not true! If you were scammed than it’s a lesson learned.
The malicious software attempts to lure users in with messages ranging from “You’ve been caught on hidden cam” to the one about Hilton tossing [...]
filed in Internet, Privacy on Aug.10, 2008
What do they use? The Coreflood Trojan horse to infect massive numbers of PCs that gathers confidential information, including bank account numbers and passwords.
The Russian hacker group is at it again using a Microsoft administration tool to steal passwords. This is not new as they have been doing this for years.
A sampling of 11% of [...]
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