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Vietnam cybersecurity in 2007: Virus increases record, hot market
The operation of cybercrime this year is no longer a noisy affair like the previous year when cyber criminals turned underground with the goal of making money.
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Forecast a new form of phishing attack
Goolge researchers and the Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) are studying an undetectable virtual attack method that could
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US-CERT: Hackers are exploiting Access database vulnerabilities
The latest warning from the US Emergency Computer Response Team (US-CERT) said cybercriminals are exploiting a flaw in Microsoft Office Access (database) database to ins…
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China dismisses McAfee's allegations
The Chinese government on November 29 has protested a report by security firm McAfee (USA) that the country is the cradle of cybercrime.
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MI5 warns of risks from Chinese hackers
MI5 director general of the British intelligence agency issued a warning to banks and financial services about the risk of trade information theft by Chinese hackers.
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The US tried to steal data of 250,000 computers
The Los Angeles court is in the process of adjudicating a case of a hacker spreading a virus that has infected 250,000 computers and stolen the user's bank account acces…
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Win XP, Yahoo Messenger stick a dangerous error
Recently, there are more deadly security bugs in Yahoo Messenger and MSN Messenger discovered. Users of these instant messaging services face the risk of being targeted…
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Windows threatening Kodak software error
Hackers have just launched a malicious Internet attack on an extremely dangerous security vulnerability that exists in some versions of the Windows operating system.
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Types of account hijacking attacks
Hackers attack accounts to access sensitive information of users, for profit purposes (such as bank accounts) or other purposes. In general, attacks on account theft can…
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Hackers distribute malicious code to attack Reader, Acrobat
Security firm Symantec said that just a few hours after Adobe released a security patch for PDF Reader and Acrobat, the bug was released to the Internet.
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Adobe harms users when announcing dangerous vulnerabilities?
Two software from Adobe Systems - which are being used by millions of people to read documents online - contain vulnerabilities that allow hackers to attack a PC without…
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Hackers spread malicious code to attack Word
Not long after Microsoft released a monthly update that fixed security flaws in software products, hackers immediately released malicious code to attack those errors. Th…
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Online video is used to spread malicious code
When traditional forms of malicious code are becoming less effective, hackers are forced to seek new forms of distribution. One of them is to embed malicious code into o…
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Google blocked a serious vulnerability in Gmail
The search giant has overcome a serious security flaw within its free Gmail email service, which could allow hackers to copy and read the user's email content.
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1,200 eBay accounts fall into the hands of hackers
On September 26, 1,200 customer accounts using eBay included personal information and bank account credit card numbers that were widely published by hackers on an eBay f…