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Hacking collective LulzSec says it is disbanding
Posted on Jun 26 2011 06:28 AM by xper in Security
LulzSec, the gleeful and secretive band of hackers who appear to be responsible for a string of high-profile and sometimes embarrassing Internet attacks, said it was disbanding."For the past 50 days we've been disrupting and exposing corpo...
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Outages hit websites after FBI seizes servers
Posted on Jun 22 2011 09:41 PM by xper in Security
The FBI seized web-hosting servers from a data facility on Tuesday, causing a number of sites to go down or transfer operations to other facilities. Agents confiscated three racks of blade servers from a facility in Maryland run by DigitalOne, the...
Lulzsec hacking group shrugs off arrest
Posted on Jun 22 2011 06:50 AM by xper in Security
The hacking group known as LulzSec pledged to continue their online rampage Tuesday, a day after police arrested a man allegedly affiliated with the group. Scotland Yard initially declined to name the 19 year old man, but LulzSec identified him as...
Adobe patches second Flash zero-day in 9 days
Posted on Jun 15 2011 07:19 PM by xper in Security
For the second time in nine days, Adobe on Tuesday patched a critical vulnerability in Flash Player that hackers were already exploiting. Adobe also updated its popular Reader PDF viewer to quash 13 new bugs and several older ones the company had ...
Autorun-abusing malware (Where are they now?)
Posted on Jun 15 2011 07:21 AM by xper in Security
On Feb. 8, Microsoft started releasing updates for the Windows XP and Vista platforms to make the Autorun feature more locked-down on those older platforms by preventing AutoPlay from being enabled automatically (except when it comes to "shiny...
Turkey Cracks Down On Anonymous Hacking Group With 32 ...
Posted on Jun 15 2011 07:06 AM by xper in Security
Turkey arrested 32 people allegedly connected to the hacker group Anonymous after members launched a series of denial-of-service attacks that shut down Turkish government and telecom Web sites. Turkish officials reportedly apprehended the individu...
Microsoft patches critical IE9, Windows bugs
Posted on Jun 14 2011 07:00 PM by xper in Security
Microsoft today patched 34 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer (IE), Office and other software, 15 of them labeled "critical" by the company. The large number of updates -- as well as the fact that Microsoft issued them two hours...
LulzSec goes on hacking rampage against game sites
Posted on Jun 14 2011 06:41 PM by xper in Security
Lulz Security has struck again but many gamers aren't lulzing ... er ... laughing at the hacking group's latest antics. Through its Twitter account Tuesday, LulzSec claimed it had taken down gaming magazine The Escapist as well as the web...
Fake antivirus software wears convincing Microsoft Upd...
Posted on Jun 10 2011 06:40 AM by xper in Security
Windows users running Firefox are being targeted by scareware groomed to look convincingly like Microsoft Update , according to a security adviser at Sophos. The news once again demonstrates that cyber criminals are becoming increasingly skilled a...
Microsoft slates hefty Patch Tuesday, to fix 34 flaws ...
Posted on Jun 10 2011 06:32 AM by xper in Security
Microsoft today said it will issue 16 security updates next week to patch 34 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer (IE), Office, SQL Server and other products. "It's the usual mishmash for an even-numbered month," said Andrew S...
iTunes hack goes global, new affected games identified
Posted on Jun 08 2011 06:27 PM by xper in Security
As coverage of the apparent hack of the iTunes Music Store expands, so have the reports from readers. The newest round of reports indicate that the issue is not limited to the US: Betanews has been able to identify victims in at least five foreign...
Fake LinkedIn Messages Install Zeus Malware on Victims...
Posted on Jun 08 2011 08:38 AM by xper in Security
Social networking site LinkedIn is being used to find victims and then to send maliciously crafted emails to compromise enterprise workstations. Prospective employers and job applicants aren’t the only ones using LinkedIn for research. Cyber-crimi...
Oracle Fixes 17 Bugs in Java Security Update
Posted on Jun 08 2011 06:24 AM by xper in Security
Oracle has issued an update to Java SE that fixes a number of critical bugs in the widely used Internet software. Nine of the 17 bugs that the company patched on Tuesday could, in theory, be used by hackers to take control of an unpatched computer...
Adobe Patches Zero Day XSS Flash Flaw
Posted on Jun 08 2011 06:07 AM by xper in Security
Adobe issued a new security update for its Adobe Flash Player on Sunday, fixing a vulnerability that has been categorized as being, 'important'. The important rating is Adobe's second highest security rating behind 'critical' a...
Adobe Flash update puts users in charge of privacy
Posted on May 13 2011 10:50 AM by xper in Security
Adobe has released an important update to its Flash Player software that fixes critical security flaws and gives users a better way of controlling whether they are being tracked on the Web. The Flash Player 10.3 update, released Thursday, lets us...
eBay removes page that exposed data
Posted on May 12 2011 05:10 PM by xper in Security
eBay removed a page from its Web site that was leaking customer data after CNET inquired about the security issue. Acting on a reader tip last night, CNET verified that an eBay Web page for sellers to order co-branded U.S. Postal Service boxes was...
Microsoft: May 2011 Security Release ISO Image
Posted on May 11 2011 07:24 PM by xper in Security
This DVD5 ISO image file contains the security updates for Windows released on Windows Update on March 11th, 2011. The image does not contain security updates for other Microsoft products. This DVD5 ISO image is intended for administrators that ne...
Windows malware threatens bank accounts
Posted on May 11 2011 07:12 PM by xper in Security
Web access security provider Trusteer has identified a Microsoft Windows malware platform that it says has “morphed” into a threat that attacks North American financial institutions and their customer accounts. The trojan, dubbed “Sunspot,” has be...
Facebook Leaks Access Tokens, Exposes Private User Dat...
Posted on May 11 2011 06:07 PM by xper in Security
Symantec researchers have uncovered a serious flaw in how Facebook applications are handling authentication that gives third-parties access to user profile data. Facebook may have unintentionally leaked users’ personal information to third parties...
Microsoft Releases Patch Tuesday Fixes for Windows Ser...
Posted on May 10 2011 05:51 PM by xper in Security
Microsoft addressed two security bulletins in May’s Patch Tuesday release. Despite its small size, security experts said administrators should apply the fixes immediately as they addressed significant threats.Microsoft fixed a critical vulnerabili...
WebGL flaws give hackers a new point of entry (FF, Ch...
Posted on May 10 2011 10:38 AM by xper in Security
Security researchers at the U.K.'s Context Information Security have identified serious flaws in the WebGL graphics standard used by default in Firefox 4 and Google Chrome; they're also available in Apple's Safari browser. The researc...
Google Chrome Pwned by VUPEN aka Sandbox/ASLR/DEP Bypass
Posted on May 10 2011 09:12 AM by xper in Security
According to French security company Vupen they have figured out how to hack Google's Chrome by sidestepping the browser's built-in "sandbox".The exploit shown in this video is one of the most sophisticated codes we have seen and c...
OpenID Security Flaw Lets Hackers Impersonate Users
Posted on May 10 2011 05:22 AM by xper in Security
Researchers have detected a serious vulnerability in some implementations of OpenID 2.0, which could enable malicious attackers to could gain unauthorized access to a user's account by altering traveling information. The security flaw, which e...
Unpatched DLL bugs let hackers exploit Windows 7 and I...
Posted on May 07 2011 07:21 AM by xper in Security
Although Microsoft has patched multiple DLL load hijacking vulnerabilities since last summer, Windows and Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) can still be exploited, a security company warned today. Microsoft confirmed that it's investigating the claims...
Microsoft Windows Server critical update out next week
Posted on May 06 2011 05:46 AM by xper in Security
Microsoft will patch a critical bug in its Windows server software and two other vulnerabilities in PowerPoint, the presentation maker bundled with Office. After April's record-setting Patch Tuesday -- which fixed 64 flaws -- May's much li...