Previous
ISP Panix Over Domain Hijack
News The domain hijack attack happened at the end of August when visitors to the eBay.de site were redirected to a different DNS, meaning that they could not access auctions. A New York Internet service provider said on Sunday it was working to recover...
[January 17, 2005, 7:30]
Teenager Admits EBay Domain Hijack
News The domain hijack attack happened at the end of August when visitors to the eBay.de site were redirected to a different domain name server (DNS), meaning that they could not access auctions. German police said on Saturday that a 19-year-old from...
[September 6, 2004, 15:35]
Teenager Admits EBay Domain Hijack
Talkback Well 'Anonymous' perhaps you should take some responsibility for securing your PC. I assume when you go out you lock the front door to your house? and when you leave your car you lock that as well? The same is true of your PC, I'd recommend a good...
[September 8, 2004, 10:28]
Teenager Admits EBay Domain Hijack
Talkback Well, when he got the message that he was the new owner of the domain - didn't that ring a bell. I just went through a month of problems with my system due to a virus and it was hell! Dell kept referring me to Microsoft; Microsoft referred me to my...
[September 6, 2004, 22:03]
EBay Germany Domain Hijack: No Prosecution Imminent
News A school pupil who admitted taking ownership of the eBay Germany domain will not face charges immediately as eBay Germany first wants to investigate the incident further, according to ZDNet Germany. The domain hijacking incident happened at the end...
[September 8, 2004, 17:15]
NTT DoCoMo Accused Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
News Japan's NTT DoCoMo was accused by a panel convened by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) of attempting to reverse-hijack the imode.biz domain name after it lost its case to win the name from US telecoms giant AT&T.
[July 9, 2002, 15:50]
Iasec Toolbar
Downloads No spyware or viruses, does not open pop-ups or hijack your searches, and no personal information is required. Free IP, Email, and domain tracers. C.I. Pro: Free encrypted communications software, Email, voip and IM.
[July 1, 2006, 12:46]
Google Toolbar Exposes PCs To Attack
News These commands can include altering the toolbar's parameters, which allows the attacker to hijack searches, alter the appearance of the toolbar or uninstall it completely. All a Google Toolbar user would have to do would be to visit a particular...
[August 9, 2002, 11:26]
Microsoft Increases Passport Security
News The owner of the inbox that email address belongs to can either verify that account or say, 'Hey wait a minute, someone's trying to hijack my email address,' and stop it," Sohn said. The two-domain mechanism also will eliminate the long, hard-to...
[September 3, 2002, 11:06]
When Three-factor Security Isn't Enough
News But the minute someone got their hands on DirecTV's private key, thousands of people were able to hijack DirecTV's signal through forged smartcards. In that suit, the original owner of Sex.com Gary Kremen alleges that a con man was able to steal...
[August 7, 2003, 11:50]
Yahoo! And Microsoft Traffic 'hijacked'
News He added that the episode proves a computer criminal could "easily" hijack all traffic on a part of the Internet. The flawed DNS entries had been entered long ago into his firm's database over time by customers hoping to hijack traffic, he said.
[January 22, 2001, 13:20]
Researcher Attempts To Unravel Kaminsky DNS Flaw
News A warning about the DNS vulnerability, which could allow attackers to hijack web surfing, was publicised earlier this month by researcher Dan Kaminsky. Flake's proposed method starts by sending 'floods' of faked requests to a nameserver, which...
[July 22, 2008, 17:43]
Windows Bug May Allow Network Traffic Hijacks
News A problem in the way Windows PCs obtain network settings could let attackers hijack traffic, security researchers said on Saturday. It turns out that an attacker can easily register a proxy server on a network using the Windows Internet Naming...
[March 26, 2007, 8:44]
Comcast Subscribers Unable To Email Russia
News ISPs have weathered criticism for letting spammers hijack their servers to send spam, and are also on the defensive from subscribers on the receiving end of increasing volumes of unsolicited commercial email.
[March 3, 2004, 8:20]
UK A Nation Of Pornographers And Spammers
News Staff at the University however say that the email assault was not the work of some porn-crazed student but was in fact due to a security hole that allowed an outsider to hijack the institution's servers and channel.
[October 29, 1999, 13:10]
Look Up In Anger
Leader Each name depends on an average of 46 servers, and compromising just two servers will hijack 30 percent of names. We have no shortage of people claiming an interest in regulating the Internet -- look at the heat and noise generated by powerful...
[May 2, 2006, 14:00]
Spammers Hide Behind A Friendly Face
News It can also be used to hijack corporate domains such as cnet.com, a tactic aimed at convincing recipients that an email comes from a trusted source. For everything Internet-related, from the latest legal and policy-related news, to domain name...
[April 15, 2002, 11:32]
Sobig.F Is 'worst Variant Yet'
News Sobig.E, which emerged in June, attempted to hijack PCs in order to use them to send spam emails. When spreading by email, Sobig.F appears to have been sent from a recognised domain name, such as ibm.com, zdnet.com or Microsoft.com.
[August 19, 2003, 18:15]
Microsoft Plugs Six Browser Holes
News The release comes 48 hours after two security researchers pointed out that the security hole found in December can be combined with last week's minor privacy flaw in MSN Messenger to hijack MSN accounts.
[February 12, 2002, 11:16]
Feds Hijack Illicit Sites
News Federal police have adopted a novel crime-fighting tactic: seizing control of domain names for Web sites that allegedly violate the law. Attorney General John Ashcroft said on Monday that the domain names for several Web sites allegedly set up to...
[February 27, 2003, 11:18]
