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Monday, July 07, 2008 The ICANN Responds to the DNS Hijacking, Its Blog Under Attack Last week, the ICANN has issued an official statement regarding last month's DNS hijackings of some of their domains...
May 30th, 2008 How was Comcast.net hijacked? Posted by Dancho Danchev @ 9:43 am It’s official, even a pothead can social engineer Network Solutions. In an in-depth interview with the hijackers , featuring...
More Crimeware Arrests Wednesday May 21, 2008 at 3:48 pm CST Posted by Allysa Myers Trackback This week’s news brings another report about arrests of people involved with Crimeware. This story is particularly...
Code Cleanup Gone Wrong Friday May 16, 2008 at 7:54 am CST Posted by Robert Ross Trackback Almost two years ago in 2006 Debian decided to clean up their OpenSSL implementation. They found a few lines of...
James Garner has always been one of my favorite actors, and in some ways has always reminded me of my Dad. Hang in there Jim!! James Garner 'doing well' after stroke - CNN.com
CNN: Another Target in Information Warfare? Friday April 25, 2008 at 4:53 am CST Posted by Di Tian Trackback I was not at all surprised when I first saw the Trojan named anticnn.exe, because I’ve followed...
BBA Tells Clients: Update Your Security Software April 8th, 2008 by JM Hipolito New Banking Codes in the UK hold online banking customers responsible for possible losses if they do not have updated antivirus...
Flash Vulnerability Takes Down Vista in PWN to OWN April 3rd, 2008 by Jake Soriano After the famous two minutes it took three security researchers to hack the equally famous Apple MacBook Air , Computerworld...
Microsoft acquires rootkit specialist Komoku; DoD now a customer Microsoft on Thursday acquired Komoku, which provides rootkit detection software, for an undisclosed sum. Komoku’s technology will be added...
Another Robert Confesses to Cybercrime March 18th, 2008 by JM Hipolito Hmmm… Are most cyber criminals named Robert? Just recently, the “King of Spam” Robert Soloway pleaded guilty to charges against him...
King Soloway Sings Guilty March 18th, 2008 by JM Hipolito The man who has reportedly raked in $300,000 from spam operations pleaded guilty to charges of fraud and tax evasion last friday, PC World reports...
Hannaford Card Theft Captors’ Patience Paid Off March 18th, 2008 by Jovi Umawing The Associated Press and CNet News reported earlier this week of a data intrusion to Hannaford Bros. , a supermarket chain...
Sad news SCI-FI LEGEND ARTHUR C. CLARKE DIES AT 90 COLOMBO, Sri Lanka ( AP ) ― Arthur C. Clarke, a visionary science fiction writer who won worldwide acclaim with more than 100 books on space, science...
I still play D&D in various forms after all these years. I was part of a campaign with a bunch of friends that ran for over two years. Those were really great times. Rest in Peace Gary. Dungeons &...
German Police Trojans Posted by Sean @ 17:34 GMT | Comments Germany's Constitutional Court ruled last Wednesday on the issue of "cybermonitoring" (trojans) by Germany's domestic security...
I just don't like the sound of this... Sun completes MySQL buy, guns for Microsoft … but not Oracle? Posted by Paula Rooney @ 9:51 am Categories: General , Applications , Enterprise Policy , Linux...
Researchers Crack BitLocker, FileVault By Ryan Naraine 2008-02-21 The issue is described as a design limitation that could allow practical attacks against laptops in "sleep" or "hibernation"...
Botnet Bust in Canada Thursday February 21, 2008 at 3:44 pm CST Posted by Allysa Myers Trackback Good news on the botnet-busting front comes to us from Canada! Yesterday 17 people ages 17-26 were arrested...
Mozilla launches Mozilla Messaging unit; Can it fix email? Posted by Larry Dignan @ 9:59 am Categories: Open Source , Software Infrastructure , Web Technology Tags: Mozilla Thunderbird , Messaging , Mozilla...
RIM Blackberry outage Published: 2008-02-12, Last Updated: 2008-02-12 00:16:47 UTC by Stephen Hall (Version: 1) A number of readers have contacted us about the current RIM Blackberry outage. It would appear...
February 4th, 2008 Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP1 RTM today Posted by George Ou @ 6:00 am Categories: Networking , Servers , News , Vista , Desktop , Microsoft Tags: Microsoft Windows Server , Microsoft...
DOH!! I didn't see this one coming! Microsoft bids $45 billion for Yahoo Software giant makes cash and stock offer of $31 a share, a 62% premium from Yahoo's closing price on Thursday. By Chris...
Well this explains why I can't get to the Net on my Blackjack... AT&T Wireless Data Outage Published: 2008-01-31, Last Updated: 2008-01-31 20:21:05 UTC by Joel Esler (Version: 2) Thanks all of...
Phishers Phished! January 30th, 2008 by Jovi Umawing The ease of use and availability of tools used for malicious schemes has always been a problem for security companies, since these greatly contribute...
Insignia Photo Frame Malware Request Published: 2008-01-29, Last Updated: 2008-01-29 21:14:43 UTC by Deborah Hale (Version: 1) We have had several reports of malware/viruses infecting some photo frames...
Yet another Tax Scam Published: 2008-01-29, Last Updated: 2008-01-29 15:51:58 UTC by Deborah Hale (Version: 1) Consumers Beware.... Tax Scam's via email, online and by telephone are ramping up, especially...
Digital Photo Frames FrameUp? January 29th, 2008 by JM Hipolito Better keep an eye on your brand new microwave. It seems like there are no electronic devices that will be spared from off-the-shelf malware...
Harada Writers Busted for Copyright Violations January 28th, 2008 by Ma. Christina Cruz The long arm of the law in Japan has finally caught up with the makers of the Harada malware. The operation, which...
Malware and Manufacturing Tuesday January 29, 2008 at 8:16 am CST Posted by Joe Telafici Trackback Last week’s news of digital pictures frames being infected with malware reminds us that it is not just...
It’s Not a Wonderful Second Life It’s not very far into 2008 and sadly we are already seeing some of our predictions on the security trends of 2008 come true. I blogged earlier that our security analyses...
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