passwords attack
RSS passwords attackSecond iPhone worm: A botnet risk
News Like the first worm - unearthed last month - to attack iPhones, this latest exploit also affects jailbroken devices with SSH (secure shell) protocol-enabled and unchanged default passwords. A second... [24 Nov 2009]
iPhones under attack from Rick Astley worm
News Security companies have warned owners of jailbroken iPhones to change root log-in passwords immediately. Some iPhones have come under attack from a worm that replaces the devices' default wallpaper with... [09 Nov 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... [06 Oct 2009]
Scraping, Denial of Service, and Brute Force Attacks! Oh My!: Identifying and Controlling Automated Clients
White Paper Many systems will allow the use of weak passwords or cryptographic keys, and users will often choose easy to guess passwords, possibly found in a dictionary. When a guessed password allows access to the... [06 Oct 2009]
Botnet finds a home on Twitter
News Downloader.Sninfs, also known as Infostealer.Bancos, is a Trojan that uses the guise of a Brazilian banking site to collects passwords and related personal information from infected computers. Security on Twitter is... [17 Aug 2009]
Anti-Phishing Based on Automated Individual White-List
White Paper In phishing and pharming, users could be easily tricked into submitting their username/passwords into fraudulent web sites whose appearances look similar as the genuine ones. Once a user tries to submit his/her... [30 Jun 2009]
Anti-Phishing: How to Prevent Identity Theft and Safeguard Information Assets With Finjan's Active Real-Time Code Inspection
White Paper One of the techniques they use is Phishing (pronounced "Fishing"), which relates to Web attacks aimed at fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords and credit card details, by masquerading... [30 Jun 2009]
'Best video' scam takes Twitterers to malware
News The TwitterCut site looks like a Twitter log-in page and prompts people to type in their user names and passwords. Twitter users were hit with another attack over the weekend featuring tweets reading... [02 Jun 2009]
Worms lure Facebook users to fake site two days running
News Facebook also goes in and resets the passwords of member accounts that had been used to distribute the spam, he said. Facebook stopped a phishing attack on Thursday, its second day in a row of dealing... [01 May 2009]
Microsoft puts $250,000 bounty on worm-creator's head
News It also spreads via removable storage devices like USB drives, and network shares by guessing passwords and usernames, which is "causing it to spread like wild fire in the enterprise", Jose Nazario, manager of security... [16 Feb 2009]
The Corporate Threat Posed by Email Trojans: How to Protect Your Network Against Trojans
White Paper The alarming fact is that trojans can be used to steal credit card information, passwords, and other sensitive information, or to launch an electronic attack against your organization. This white paper... [01 Feb 2009]
Unveiled: Top 25 most dangerous code errors
News P is for Passwords The attack worked because countless programmers made the exact same [input validation and improper output encoding] mistakes in their software. They included experts from the US... [14 Jan 2009]
Microsoft: IE at risk from security hole
News P is for Passwords The company recommends setting the internet zone security setting to "high" and using access control lists to disable Ole32db.dll to provide the most effective protection against an... [15 Dec 2008]
Facebook Koobface worm strikes again
News Facebook's representative said: "Only a very small percentage of Facebook users have been affected and we're working quickly to update our security systems to minimise any further impact, including resetting passwords on... [05 Dec 2008]
Vista flaw leaves OS open to DoS attack
News P is for Passwords Unterleitner told ZDNet UK via email that the "exploit can be used to turn off the computer using a [denial-of-service] attack". The vulnerability was found by Thomas Unterleitner of... [24 Nov 2008]
