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Web attack disarmed at source
News Compromised Web sites are still attempting to infect Web surfers' PCs by referring them to the server in Russia, but that computer can no longer be reached. It is significantly easier to lure a number of employees to a compromised Web site than to...
[June 28, 2004, 9:00]
Wi-Fi Week: Mobility at the cost of security
News This means when you log onto a hot spot, there is a possibility that it has been compromised. Administrators must choose long, random passwords or risk their Wi-Fi connection being compromised The mass media has had a lot of fun with wireless...
[January 28, 2004, 11:25]
Report: Fake antivirus scams pulling in profits
News Finjan's Malicious Code Research Center came across a traffic-management server in Ukraine used by underground online scammers to keep track of how many redirects their rogue antivirus sites get from legitimate sites that have been compromised.
[March 24, 2009, 8:38]
Distributed attack threat looms on the horizon
News CERT says that reports of computers being compromised in the same two ways and fitted with the same DDoS tools has increased dramatically in recent weeks. A DDoS attack method gives a single user control of a whole legion of compromised "zombie...
[September 18, 2000, 9:52]
Asia urged to strengthen data-breach laws
News This, Cox explained, would protect the people whose data was compromised. California's law — SB 1386 — requires businesses to disclose data-security breaches to residents if their unencrypted personal information is compromised.
[September 28, 2007, 9:37]
New Bagle opens another spam backdoor
News The mass-mailing computer virus, dubbed Bagle.AF or Beagle.AB by different security firms, opens a path for intruders to relay bulk email messages through the infected computer and attempts to contact one of almost 150 compromised German Web sites...
[July 16, 2004, 8:35]
Patch fixes flaw behind Gentoo attack
News Debian Linux project servers were recently compromised using the same Linux kernel flaw, which allows an integer overflow in the system call. Gentoo's compromised server used a configuration option that made the attack easier, the Rsync team said.
[December 5, 2003, 11:50]
A Proactive Data Security Framework for Mission-Critical Sensor Networks
White Papers This paper argues that cryptography alone is insufficient to fully address the insider attacks in the existence of both the compromised and faulty sensor nodes. They further propose a Proactive Data Security Framework (PDSF) to identify compromised...
[October 7, 2008, 1:01]
You've been hacked: What to do in the first hour
News Before reconnecting systems to the Internet, you have to determine whether they have been compromised. If you're hoping to identify the individual who caused the problem or perform more diagnosis to determine the exact source of the attack, you'll...
[July 14, 2003, 10:15]
Companies urged to ensure BlackBerry security
News If the BES is compromised and there is no separation of the BES router, it can lead to the whole network becoming insecure, the company claimed. He explained: "If the BES router gets compromised, the demilitarised zone will ensure that there is no...
[March 11, 2008, 8:19]
Hotmail attacked by Code Red II
News The company has said that no personal information about customers was compromised in the attack, and that the attack did not affect the service's availability. No customer data was compromised, and all users should still be able to access the...
[August 9, 2001, 15:01]
High-profile New Zealand websites hacked
News At this stage, it is not known if any user data, such as Hotmail emails, was compromised by the hackers. The manager was not aware of how many domains had been compromised by the hackers. Hackers appearing to hail from Turkey have struck a number...
[April 21, 2009, 14:35]
Vendor warns of 'Chinese' website attacks
News The Yahoo search engine revealed 7,020 compromised pages over the course of the weekend," said Landesman. Compromised sites include IPO listings on kgieworld.com, a Hong Kong stock brokerage, worldoil.com, and redmondmag.com, which should not be...
[May 20, 2008, 16:54]
Another 'Nasa hacker' faces extradition
News After hacking into and taking control of the government computers, Faur allegedly caused the compromised machines to display screens that flaunted the computer intrusion," the US Attorney's Office said.
[December 4, 2006, 9:25]
Gumblar Rumblings Targeting Wrong People
Talkback For businesses, however, the real threat is not compromised PCs. Some reports suggest that compromised FTP (1985 called, it wants its protocol back) passwords were to blame for many of the infected sites.
[May 20, 2009, 12:40]
Spammers release hoax Microsoft security bulletin
News The security company said that, although antivirus products will now have been updated, users' machines could still become compromised if the compromised websites are made to point to a zero-day exploit.
[June 27, 2007, 15:47]
Microsoft patches critical flaws
News A vulnerable Windows system could be compromised if the user opened an email or visited a Web site containing a malicious font, Microsoft said in security bulletin MS06-002. An attacker could craft a malicious email message, and vulnerable systems...
[January 11, 2006, 9:15]
Alleged CastleCops attacker charged
News He is accused of using a botnet of over 7,000 compromised computers to launch denial-of-service attacks against servers used by CastleCops between 13 February and 18 February, 2007, causing damage of at least $5,000 (£2,451).
[October 4, 2007, 17:39]
New denial of service menace uncovered
News More than 2,000 personal computers, including machines within large corporations have been compromised, according to a spokesman for Network Security Technologies. We saw compromised computers in the thousands.
[June 9, 2000, 11:58]
Web-borne security threats soar
News Four out of five infected sites had been compromised, with just one in five specifically created with malicious intent. The legitimate websites could initially have been compromised via vulnerabilities in the server that allowed SQL injection...
[July 25, 2007, 13:33]
