Tag Archives: Hackers
Malware Authors Target Social Networks
When you have millions of users, 175 million to be exact, it makes for an easy target for Malware authors and Hackers to invest time and energy. Facebook has been under fire lately with the well known Koobface worm. The Koobface worm finds the social-networking cookies, it makes a DNS query to check IP addresses [...]
Full StoryHow Safe is Your Web Site?
Your site may have been already targeted by hackers who are using automated tools to find most common vulnerabilities. If they find one, they will inject harmful code that will attack your loyal visitors and guests. To help keep your site safe, start with some quick, free scans that ferret out the most obvious problems. [...]
Full StoryMcCain and Obama Networks Hacked
Reports indicate that hackers cracked into the networks of John McCain and Barack Obama during the US presidential campaign. CNN and Newsweek cited sources within both camps as reporting that hackers from an undisclosed foreign location targeted each network over the summer in an attempt to acquire information. The report did not specify which group [...]
Full StoryHackers at it again
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 [...]
Full StoryI Know Your Password
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 [...]
Full StoryKoobface Worm Scams Facebook and MySpace Users
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 [...]
Full StoryRussian Hacker Gang at it Again!
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 [...]
Full StoryVista Exploited, User Beware!
Don’t trust software to be secure. Vista DEP (Data Execution Prevention) isn’t doing a good job protecting Vista users. It’s only partially enabled and if switched fully on too many applications fail. I find this absurd that applications would fail if DEP is totally enabled. It’s not what the doctor ordered. It’s just another day [...]
Full StoryFacebook Users Beware!
After two recent worm attacks on Facebook, the popular social networking site responded last night with a statement about its security practices. Regarding the attacks, Max Kelly, head of security at Facebook, wrote this in a blog post: “We spent most of last night working on a fix for a worm, which was targeting people [...]
Full StoryFake Flash Player Hits Major Web Sites
In what is called a sophisticated attack, hackers sending out spam email to users with links to what looked like CNN.com news feeds. When users go to the site and click on the news “stories” they get a message saying their flash player is incorrectly installed. While some savvy users decided to click “cancel”, the [...]
Full StoryHackers Take Aim at Google Gadgets
Malicious gadgets — if a user were to download one of them it could be used in a variety of other attacks, including one where one gadget steals information from another, a valuable attack against gadgets that store personal user information according to reports. It’s a threat even for the biggest Web companies, including Google [...]
Full StorySecret Service Catch 11 in Identity Theft
This is getting really bad that our identity can be easily obtained by these cyber-crooks. The feds charge 11 people for stealing over 41 million credit and debt card numbers from nine major retailers. Who can you trust these days? No one! It’s a free-for-all in the online crime that keeps growing each day. The [...]
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