Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 Writers of a password-stealing Trojan horse program have found that a little patience can lead to a lot of infections.They have managed to infect hundreds of thousands of computers, including more than 14,000 within one unnamed global hotel chain, by waiting for system administrators to log onto infected PCs and ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 Blizzard's announcement of two-factor authentication for World of Warcraft is more significant than people realize.Passwords are obsolete. They are broken. We all recognize this, yet we aren't quite ready to give up on passwords because we haven't an easy alternative.World of Warcraft (WoW) is a good test case. It is ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 Experts at SophosLabs™, Sophos's global network of virus, spyware and spam analysis centers, have welcomed news that a teenager has confessed to controlling thousands of computers in an illegal botnet.19-year-old Jason Michael Milmont, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, has admitted to being the programmer of the Nugache malware which infected Windows computers, ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 A researcher performing social engineering exploits on behalf of several U.S. banks and other firms in the past year has “stolen” thousands of identities with a 100 percent success rate.Joshua Perrymon, hacking director for PacketFocus Security Solutions and CEO of RedFlag Security, says organizations typically are focused on online identity ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008 A 19-year-old hacker is agreeing to plead guilty to masterminding a botnet to obtain thousands of victims' personal data in an anonymous scheme a federal cybercrime official described Friday as the nation's first such attack in which peer-to-peer software was the "infection point."The defendant, Jason Michael Milmont, launched the assault ...
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