Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
I decided to try the ever popular Firefox plugin called Foxmarks that lets you sync and back up your bookmarks and passwords across multiple computers. I didn't feel comfortable using the password sync quite yet because it will take me a while to trust a 3rd party with that kind ...
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
An 18-year-old hacker with a history of celebrity pranks has admitted to Monday's hijacking of multiple high-profile Twitter accounts, including President-Elect Barack Obama's, and the official feed for Fox News.
The hacker, who goes by the handle GMZ, told Threat Level on Tuesday he gained entry to Twitter's administrative control panel ...
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, recovering wireless network keys, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords ...
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Monday, January 5th, 2009
Days after a wave of phishing attacks fooled thousands of Twitter users, it appears that another security hole has been found by...someone. Obama's account, unused since election day, sent out an affiliate link to a survey with a gas card prize, Fox News said that "Bill O'Reily is gay" (not ...
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Monday, December 29th, 2008
In his blog, Graham Cluley of Sophos alerts his readers to the return of Google Calendar phishing attacks. Originally spotted in the summer, Google Calendar phishing uses event invitations to Calendar users asking them to "Verify Your Account" or face account deletion. Victims of this phish are asked to accept ...
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