Saturday, March 8th, 2008
A new Trojan is successfully attacking online recruiting sites and already has accessed data on hundreds of thousands of users, researchers said last Friday.
Researchers from Symantec and SecureWorks separately reported finding surprisingly effective penetrations by the new Trojan, called Infostealer.Monstres, which was attempting to access the online recruitment Website, ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
News Corp.'s popular MySpace.com social networking site hosted Web pages for at least 29,000 known sex offenders as of July 2007, North Carolina's Attorney General said Tuesday.
North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper's office said in a statement that based on MySpace's own estimates, the number of registered sex offenders with ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Software developers like to make installation of their programs simple and quick. So do hackers.
Analysts at RSA Security Inc. early last month spotted a single piece of PHP code that installs a phishing site on a compromised server in about two seconds, the vendor noted in its monthly online fraud ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Increasingly popular social-networking sites such as MySpace, YouTube and Facebook are accounting for such huge volumes of DNS queries and bandwidth consumption that carriers, universities and corporations are scrambling to keep pace.
The trend is prompting some network operators to upgrade their DNS systems, while others are blocking the sites altogether. ...
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