Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Researchers at Core Security Technologies are to demonstrate an attack that could allow hackers to extract private information from databases -- without requiring any bugs in the database management software.
The demonstration, on Wednesday at Black Hat USA in Las Vegas, will involve timing attacks, a technique for breaking ciphers. It's ...
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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
Hackers appear to have stepped up their efforts to trick corporate executives into downloading malicious software programs that can steal company data over the past year.
That's according to security vendor MessageLabs, which caught an average of 10 e-mails per day in May targeted at people in senior management positions, up ...
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