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Credit card fraud increased sharply
The number of hackers attacking their banking facilities and customers increased by 81% this year, according to SecureWorks at the BlackHat conference on IT safety this…
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Bank security is still loose
At the international conference on safety - security and systems (VNSecon 07), in many security related issues, the cases of security breaches, security of computer netw…
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Gmail, MySpace, and Wi-Fi are all perverse
A speaker at the 2007 Defcon conference made the audience cold when he showed the WiFi network hack in a blink of an eye, then leisurely read all the emails inside the v…
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Yahoo Messenger vulnerability has not been patched yet
Yahoo's Yahoo Messenger instant messaging application has once again been exposed to attacks, and this time it's even bigger because Yahoo's experts haven't patched the…
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Dangerous Trojan attacks Yahoo Mail and Hotmail
A new threat is affecting Yahoo Mail and Hotmail, two of the biggest email sites on the Internet. BitDefender Antivirus Labs identified that threat as Trojan Spammer.
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Adobe upgrade Flash bug fixes
Adobe Systems has released an update to block three deadly security holes in Flash Player versions for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
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Cisco warns of a serious security error CallManager
Cisco Systems has released two warning messages about some relatively dangerous security vulnerabilities that arise in the Unified Communications Manager application.
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Microsoft.co.uk is hacked
The official Microsoft domain in the UK has been hacked and
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Dangerous software on YouTube
The malicious program, called Zlob, is capable of opening back-end ports on users' computers, hiding in files posted on Google's online video-sharing system.
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OpenOffice worm attacks the operating system
Security firm Symantec warned a malicious code to attack OpenOffice.org could infect many different operating systems and be hacked to the Internet.
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Security Vista
At the end of March, while security researchers were 'compensating' for download-type attacks, they found a surprise: there was another flaw in the way Windows handled f…
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Trojan forged Microsoft security warnings
A spam attack campaign impersonating Microsoft's security warning message has just been booted by hackers with the goal of tricking users into downloading and installing…
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The new worm attacks Yahoo Messenger users
Security firm Bitdefender has announced a new worm called Worm.Sohanat.Z that infects Yahoo Messenger multimedia messages by enticing users to click on links.
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Google Desktop vulnerability before the new attack
Just one day after security experts introduced the Google Toolbar vulnerability in Firefox, another similar vulnerability was found in Google Desktop.
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Hackers create 'disposable codes'
Researchers and security companies are struggling with the emergence of a new user attack tactic that can easily pass through their surveillance eyes.