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RSS attack hackAn Anatomy of a Web Hack: SQL Injection Explained
White Paper The nation of SQL injection isn't new, but is still widely misunderstood and many sites are still vulnerable to attack. This paper shows how easy it is to penetrate the average website and gain information about the... [06 Oct 2009]
Scammers pose as banks in live chat hack
News Meanwhile, the "chat-in-the-middle" phishing attack, as RSA has dubbed it, is being hosted on a fast flux network that criminals pay to use that hosts malicious websites and other tools for online scams. [18 Sep 2009]
Australian cops investigate 'anonymous' cyber attack threat
News Earlier this year, the AFP was called in by the AGD to investigate the hack of the Classification Board's website, which occurred shortly after the Australian minister for communications Stephen Conroy appeared on an... [09 Sep 2009]
Open source hack could make mobiles vulnerable to prying ears
News Clearly we are making the attack more practical and much cheaper, and of course there's a moral question of whether we should do that," he said. It will take 80 high-performance computers about three months to do a brute... [26 Aug 2009]
Largest hack and ID theft in US: Three suspects charged
News The three men were indicted on charges of conspiring to hack into computer networks and stealing data as far back as October 2006. They used an SQL injection attack to steal the data and used computers... [18 Aug 2009]
MI5 plugs website flaw that left site open to hack attack
News However, the government service insisted the website had been secured quickly, and that at no time had any intelligence operatives been exposed by the hack. MI5 has closed up a flaw on its website that could have opened... [30 Jul 2009]
'Hack your own Oracle database' tool unveiled next week
News If administrators haven't applied the patches, then the databases were/are vulnerable," he said when asked if the release of his tool will expose companies running Oracle databases to attack. During their presentation at... [24 Jul 2009]
ATM hack talk pulled from security conference
News In his presentation entitled 'Jackpotting Automated Teller Machines', Barnaby Jack was planning to discuss local and remote attack vectors on ATMs and provide a live demonstration of an attack on an... [02 Jul 2009]
Why you should hack your own systems
Comment Penetration tests allow organisations to set up social engineering attacks, garnering information such as email addresses from vulnerable applications and using wizards and templates to do things such as create an email, associate it... [22 Apr 2009]
UK biz not ready for hack attacks, flu, bad weather
News The report found the two greatest concerns for organisations are electronic attack (identified by 58 per cent) and human disease such as a flu pandemic (57 per cent). UK organisations are still not doing enough to ensure... [19 Mar 2009]
Satyam scandal, police search row and Apple without Jobs
News Full steam ahead for police plans to hack home PCs Security vendors Kaspersky Labs and Sophos responded to the news by saying they'd block attempts by the police to hack into computer systems without a... [02 Feb 2009]
Data0: Next Generation Malware for Stealing Databases
White Paper This paper it's about Data0, a fictitious (or not) simple PoC of new malware that after it's deployed on a computer in an internal network it will automatically hack database servers and steal their data. [22 Oct 2008]
Oyster card security vulnerabilities uncovered
News In the wake of his team's publication of the hack details, Jacobs said, the implication for Oyster card administrators at Transport for London (TfL) was that public confidence in the travelcards could be undermined, and... [08 Oct 2008]
UK at risk from repeat of US hack attack?
News UK shoppers credit card details could be at risk from the same wireless hack technique that snared more than 40 million people's details in the US, according to security experts. Security at hundreds of medium sized... [06 Aug 2008]
iPhone: Beware the wi-fi security threat
News Gatford identified wi-fi as being a technology ripe to hack the iPhone, and said its exploitation for malicious purposes would only continue to grow: "Wi-fi spots aren't encrypted .nor is a great amount of the... [12 Jun 2008]
