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Twitter Gets Hacked, BadlyOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 1 hour 30 minutes ago (http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: security | Tags twitter, hack, facebook, phish, attack,
"Phishing attacks, which hit Twitter over the weekend, are a sign a service has arrived (Facebook has the same problem). But someone hacking into Twitter's internal admin tools and compromising 33 read more »
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Password guessing attack exposed in Twitter pwnOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 6 hours ago (http://go.theregister.com)
Category: internet | Tags password, guessing, attack, exposed, twitter, pwn,
The pursuit of 'happiness'Miscreants broke into Twitter's admin system on Sunday night using a simple password guessing hack, it has emerged.… read more »
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The State of Spam: What to Expect in 2009Open in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 22 hours ago (http://feeds.infoworld.com)
Category: security | Tags spam, attack, security, future, junk, ,
"2008 saw a promising blow to the endless sea of junk mail, but the relief didn't last for long. Now, spam experts say new forms of annoyances are on..." read more »
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Thousands of Israeli web sites under attackOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 1 day 2 hours 42 minutes ago (http://blogs.zdnet.com)
Category: security | Tags thousands, israeli, web, sites, attack, ,
In the wake of the escalating conflict between Israel and Hamas, it didn’t take long before pro-Hamas supporters organized themselves and started to defacing thousands of pro-Israeli web sites read more »
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Nokia 'Curse of Silence' SMS exploit uncoveredOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by MargaretM 5 days ago (http://go.theregister.com)
Category: security | Tags bill ray, the register, symbian os, attack, tobias engel, nokia, exploit,
Bill Ray of The Register writes "Mobile phone security vendors were rejoicing last night when it emerged that an obscure bug in an old version of the Symbian OS could allow an attacker to crash a ta read more »
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MD5/rogue CA attack: The sky is not fallingOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 6 days ago (http://blogs.zdnet.com)
Category: security | Tags md5, rogue, ca, attack, sotirov, pki, ,
"Today there’s been a lot of buzz about the clever new attack on public key infrastructure from Alex Sotirov and a team of researchers.   In the attack, the bad guy ends up..." read more »
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Security vendors ready fix for 'Curse of Silence' SMS attackOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 6 days ago (http://www.networkworld.com)
Category: security | Tags security, vendors, fix, silence, sms, attack, nokia,
"A single malformed text message can prevent some Nokia smartphones from receiving further messages via SMS (Short Message Service) -- and the offending message can be sent from almost any Nokia pho read more »
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Researchers devise undetectable phishing attackOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 7 days ago (http://feeds.infoworld.com)
Category: security | Tags researchers, undetectable, phishing, attack, sony, playstations, ssl,
"With the help of about 200 Sony Playstations, an international team of security researchers have devised a way to undermine the algorithms used to protect secure Web sites and launch a nearly..." read more »
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