Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 An 18-year-old hacker with a history of celebrity pranks has admitted to Monday's hijacking of multiple high-profile Twitter accounts, including President-Elect Barack Obama's, and the official feed for Fox News.The hacker, who goes by the handle GMZ, told Threat Level on Tuesday he gained entry to Twitter's administrative control panel ...
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, recovering wireless network keys, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords ...
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Monday, January 5th, 2009 Days after a wave of phishing attacks fooled thousands of Twitter users, it appears that another security hole has been found by...someone. Obama's account, unused since election day, sent out an affiliate link to a survey with a gas card prize, Fox News said that "Bill O'Reily is gay" (not ...
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Monday, December 29th, 2008 In his blog, Graham Cluley of Sophos alerts his readers to the return of Google Calendar phishing attacks. Originally spotted in the summer, Google Calendar phishing uses event invitations to Calendar users asking them to "Verify Your Account" or face account deletion. Victims of this phish are asked to accept ...
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Monday, November 24th, 2008 Is it possible for someone to create a malicious filter without having access to your Gmail username and password? No, however, they can force you to create the filter without your knowledge.The blogosphere is buzzing about a Gmail Security Flaw that has caused some people to lose their domain names ...
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