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Hackers take advantage of Wikipedia to spread Blaster
Wikipedia has just been kidnapped by hackers and turned it into a tool to spread a famous malware - the Blaster worm. Specifically, hackers hacked and partially edited t…
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Electronic transactions are
Hackers are turning to direct attacks on electronic transactions instead of attacking users or organized businesses like before.
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Cisco patched a serious vulnerability
On November 1, Cisco corrected a critical flaw in the Security Agent Management Center software (CSAMC), which allowed hackers to remotely attack and bypass authenticati…
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Beware of phishing on the ghost festival day
Hackers set up scary websites on ghost festivals (Halloween) to attract funny people and spread dangerous spyware ...
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Hackers disable Windows Firewall
Hacker has released a malicious code that can completely disable Windows Firewall on some PCs running Windows XP. Specifically, they are PCs running Windows XP and have…
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Hackers steal accounts
US authorities are investigating a rapidly growing type of online scam, which is that hackers hack into customer accounts through big online transactions. Internet and t…
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Phisher again looked at MySpace
Web analyst Netcraft has warned MySpace users to be really careful at this time because hackers have just launched a new phishing attack on the social networking site.
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New phishing security flaw discovered in IE 7
Security experts have discovered a deadly weakness in Internet Explorer 7 that could be exploited by hackers to bypass the browser 's anti - phishing features.
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Sophisticated spam Trojan unmatched
Veteran security expert Joe Stewart thinks he has embraced malware until he comes across SpamThru Trojan, a malicious program designed to spread spam from infected compu…
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2006: the year of security flaw
5,450 vulnerabilities were discovered within 9 months - this figure was more than enough for 2006 to become the record year for the number of security flaws.
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Code that destroys new hacker disguise security
Currently hackers are building new software that hides the browser attack code in advance of some types of security software.
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Warning fake websites for downloading IE 7
Hackers have just launched a fake Web site for the site to download Microsoft's version of Internet Explorer 7 RC1 for the purpose of distributing malware.
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'Windows Vista will quickly be defeated by hackers'
According to experts, the core security technology for Windows Vista will soon be hacked
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Firefox 'patch', IE again
Firefox has just updated version 1.5.0.7, patching 7 security holes. In contrast, Internet Explorer is facing new vulnerabilities that have been used by hackers to attac…