Friday, February 7th, 2014
Attacks recently observed in Poland involved cybercriminals hacking into home routers and changing their DNS settings so they can intercept user connections to online banking sites.
Researchers from the Polish Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT Polska) believe attackers will likely target users from other countries as well in the future using ...
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Thursday, February 6th, 2014
Hacking group NullCrew FTS declared today that it had exploited a security flaw in Comcast’s Zimbra webmail server. It’s believed that the group used what is known as a LFI exploit or local file inclusion vulnerability to obtain usernames and passwords of Comcast ISP users.
The hacking group claims it used ...
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Wednesday, February 5th, 2014
Adobe has released a fix for a zero-day vulnerability in Flash Player, which impacts users running Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems.
On Tuesday, the company made the updates available via a security bulletin, urging Windows and Mac users to download Flash Player versions 12.0.0.44 and 11.7.700.261 (for those who cannot ...
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Tuesday, February 4th, 2014
More than 180,000 Google Chrome users have installed at least one of a dozen ad-injecting extensions that are serving up spam on 44 different websites, according to findings by the threat and research analysis team with Barracuda Labs.
As of Jan. 30, the “logo quiz game” extension has been installed by nearly 82,000 ...
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Tuesday, February 4th, 2014
Lodgers at Holiday Inns, Marriott and Renaissance hotels may have had their payment card details compromised following a new disclosure on Monday of suspected point-of-sale device attacks.
White Lodging Services, a hotel management company, warned in a news release it suspects point-of-sale systems at restaurants and lounges on 14 of its properties were ...
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