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RSS attack in newsiPhones under attack from Rick Astley worm
News Some iPhones have come under attack from a worm that replaces the devices' default wallpaper with a picture of Rick Astley - the pop star whose 'Never Gonna Give You Up' song is the subject of the Rickrolling prank craze. [09 Nov 2009]
Revealed: The anatomy of an internet scam
News Scareware is fake security software, often heralded by an ersatz dialogue box warning unsuspecting users that their PC is under attack by malware or that it's at risk of a virus infection. Scareware is bad for your PC... [19 Oct 2009]
Online banking fraud rockets as fraudsters get smarter
News William Beer, a director at PricewaterhouseCoopers One Security practice, said criminals are now very specialised in identifying and exploiting vulnerabilities, unprotected consumer PCs and the public's lack of awareness, which make them... [07 Oct 2009]
Thousands of Hotmail account details posted online
News Hotmail account logins and passwords have been posted to a public forum following a phishing attack. For more, see Phishing attack hits thousands of Hotmail accounts on ZDNet UK. Several thousand users... [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 The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has been called in to investigate a planned denial-of-service attack on Australian government web servers. A spokesperson from the Attorney General's Department (AGD) today said it was... [09 Sep 2009]
WordPress blogs under spam, malware attack
News The vulnerability allowing the attack was discovered on 11 August, at which point WordPress encouraged users to upgrade to version 2.8.4. A worm is circulating that can post malware and spam to some WordPress blogs using... [07 Sep 2009]
Microsoft IIS flaw being exploited in attacks
News According to the advisory, the vulnerability could let somebody run arbitrary code on a server using FTP on IIS 5.0 and conduct a denial-of-service attack using FTP on IIS 5.1, 6.0, and 7.0. A vulnerability in... [07 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]
Google plugs two critical Chrome vulnerabilities
News With one attack on Google's V8 JavaScript engine, malicious JavaScript on a website could let an attacker gain access to sensitive data or run arbitrary code on the computer within a Chrome protected area called the... [26 Aug 2009]
Cisco wireless LAN: At risk from 'skyjack' attack
News With that information, someone listening to the network could easily find the internal addresses of the WLAN controllers in the network and potentially target them with a denial-of-service attack, Williamson said. [25 Aug 2009]
Facebook crushes spam apps as five more attack
News Facebook on Thursday said it had disabled six rogue apps that were stealing Facebook users' log-in credentials and spamming people, and within hours more appeared. Five more of the apps appeared on Thursday, called "Friends", "Friends... [21 Aug 2009]
Largest hack and ID theft in US: Three suspects charged
News They used an SQL injection attack to steal the data and used computers in California, Illinois, Latvia, the Netherlands, New Jersey and Ukraine for storing malware and stolen data and launching attacks, according to the... [18 Aug 2009]
Botnet finds a home on Twitter
News Security on Twitter is front and centre right now, as the microblogging site was completely downed by a distributed denial-of-service attack last week that was targeting a Georgian political blogger. While other services... [17 Aug 2009]
Twitter goes down as another attack hits
News At 19:17, Twitter confirmed that it was an attack. We're back up and analysing the traffic data to determine the nature of this attack," the company said. The sight greeting Twitter users after the... [12 Aug 2009]
