Monday, April 28th, 2014
Last week, AOL confirmed that an unknown number of AOL Mail accounts have been hacked. Today, the company urged all its customers to change passwords and security questions, as it determined that information for at least two percent of all its accounts had been compromised. That's an impact of half a million users.
Attackers breached ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2014
Hackers posted names, e-mail addresses, message histories, and partially protected login credentials for more than 158,000 forum users of Boxee.tv, the Web-based television service that was acquired by Samsung last year, researchers said.
The breach occurred no later than last week, when a full copy of the purloined forum data became widely ...
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Thursday, February 20th, 2014
Microsoft published 147 vulnerabilities in 2013 that were rated as Critical. Critical, however, is a relative term, and there is one simple thing anyone can do that would guard against almost every single Critical vulnerability according to a new report from Avecto.
In its 2013 Microsoft Vulnerabilities Study, Avecto found that you could ...
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Tuesday, February 18th, 2014
A new variant of the nefarious Zeus banking trojan – dubbed ZeusVM – is concealed in JPG image files, according to the collaborative findings of Jerome Segura, senior security researcher with Malwarebytes, and French security researcher Xylitol.
The act is known as steganography – concealing messages or images in other messages or images.
In ...
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Monday, February 17th, 2014
Evernote users are being actively targeted with an email spam campaign that tries to trick them into following a malicious link.
Sent from
[email protected] and titled "Image has been sent", the email pretends to be a notification from Evernote that alerts the user to an image he or she needs to check out, ...
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