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Study finds cybercrime costs on the rise

...attacks, "malicious insiders", and devices that have been compromised through theft or hijacking. For more on this ZDNet UK-selected story, see Study: Cybercrime costs... Read more

3 August, 2011 by Josh Lowensohn

Vodafone femtocell hack lets intruders listen to calls

A group of researchers has used a modified Vodafone Sure Signal femtocell, a £50 device used to provide better mobile signals in homes, to eavesdrop on calls and text messages Read more

14 July, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Boris backtracks over Twitter account 'hijacking

London mayor Boris Johnson has returned the official mayoral Twitter account to its original status, after briefly... Read more

21 March, 2012
Session <endeca_term>Hijacking</endeca_term> - Bypassing Web Application Security

Session Hijacking - Bypassing Web Application Security

In this webcast, the presenters say about the session hijacking is the act of taking control of a user session after successfully... Read more

1 January, 2011
Accurate Real-Time Identification of IP Prefix <endeca_term>Hijacking</endeca_term>

Accurate Real-Time Identification of IP Prefix Hijacking

The authors present novel and practical techniques to accurately detect IP prefix hijacking attacks in real time to facilitate mitigation. Attacks may hijack victim's... Read more

1 January, 2011
TowerDefense: Deployment Strategies for Battling Against IP Prefix <endeca_term>Hijacking</endeca_term>

TowerDefense: Deployment Strategies for Battling Against IP Prefix Hijacking

IP prefix hijacking is one of the top security threats targeting today's Internet routing... Read more

1 August, 2010
Distance <endeca_term>Hijacking</endeca_term> Attacks on Distance Bounding Protocols

Distance Hijacking Attacks on Distance Bounding Protocols

...a fourth main type of attacks on distance bounding protocols, called Distance Hijacking attacks. They show that many proposed distance bounding protocols are vulnerable to... Read more

14 March, 2011
Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is <endeca_term>Hijacking</endeca_term> America 1.1

Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America 1.1

...From Revolutionary War-inspired "Tea Party" protests to the healthcare town hall hijackings, principled policy opposition to government spending has taken a sharp right turn... Read more

4 March, 2011
<endeca_term>Hijacking</endeca_term> Power and Bandwidth From the Mobile Phone's Audio Interface

Hijacking Power and Bandwidth From the Mobile Phone's Audio Interface

The authors endow the mobile phone with a low-cost, open interface that can parasitically power external peripherals,... Read more

18 December, 2010

Hotmail puts a block on flimsy passwords

...as '123456' and 'ilovecats' to try to stop spammers and phishers from hijacking accounts Read more

15 July, 2011 by Tom Espiner
Implementation of a Secured System With Roaming Server and Roaming Ports

Implementation of a Secured System With Roaming Server and Roaming Ports

...this paper is to design and implement a secured system against Server hijacking, which leads to Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. This system uses more... Read more

5 May, 2011
Protecting Browsers From Cross-Origin CSS Attacks

Protecting Browsers From Cross-Origin CSS Attacks

...use style sheet import to steal confidential information from a victim website, hijacking a user's existing authenticated session; existing XSS defenses are ineffective. The... Read more

8 October, 2010
Bootstrapping Accountability in the Internet We Have

Bootstrapping Accountability in the Internet We Have

...lack of accountability makes the Internet vulnerable to numerous attacks, including prefix hijacking, route forgery, source address spoofing, and DoS flooding attacks. This paper takes... Read more

5 October, 2010

DNS Changer: A Real Threat to Your Internet

...above, DNS Changer is a dangerous Trojan malware which is capable of hijacking your computer’s DNS server address, a number assigned by your ISP... Read more

17 May, 2012

Trustwave sold root certificate for surveillance

...middle attack is when a third party eavesdrops on a communication by hijacking and relaying messages between parties. Soghoian called for Mozilla to revoke trust... Read more

9 February, 2012 by Tom Espiner

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