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Stocks and Hacks
People are now getting a bit more adventurous in what kind of attacks they perform. This one goes for the root of all evil, money and stock market. An Asian fellow gained access to an Internet brokerage and proceeded to dump all existing holdings and bought for himself lightly traded stocks to inflate the price [...]
Danger danger botnets are coming… to a social network near you!
Well I guess it was only matter of time but there is a worm, koobface (they should have really called it n00bface IMHO) that sends a variety of comments and messages to the friends of anyone infected by the malicious program. There is accompanying link which seems fine but then it asks you to update [...]
USA’s biggest ID fraud cracked
It emerged yesterday that the US authorities charged 11 people in connection with the theft of 40 million credit card numbers and details. They allegedly hacked into the computer systems of several major US retailers and installed software to access account details and passwords. One retailer that was attacked was TJX (TK Maxx) who are [...]
More DNS holes attacked
Looks like it’s in the wild. Following on the release of the DNS vulnerability.
DNS poisoning patch and the big leak!
Earlier in the month (July 2008), it was reported that vendors had released a fix for a then undisclosed problem with DNS. Even now the big ISP players are still dragging feet in terms of this critical patch. They really should hurry up because an attack code has magically appeared on the multi-purpose testing tool, [...]
