Tuesday, December 21st, 2010 In order to outline the dangers of implicitly trusting shortened URLs, a student has launched a service which generates links that take users to their destination, but also hijack their browsers for DDoS. Called d0z.me, the service is the creation of Ben Schmidt (@supernothing307), a computer science major at University ...
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Monday, December 13th, 2010 E-mail addresses and password details for 200,000 registered users of Gawker Media websites are now circulating on peer-to-peer networks after a weekend hack attack. The company warned users to change their passwords -- including on other sites, if they use the same passwords elsewhere.The websites affected include Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Gawker, ...
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Saturday, December 4th, 2010 The Chrome team is happy to announce our latest Stable release, 8.0.552.215. In addition to the over 800 bug fixes and stability improvements, Chrome 8 now contains a built in PDF viewer that is secured in Chrome’s sandbox.Get it here:
http://www.google.com/chrome
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Tuesday, November 30th, 2010 Malware is all about money. Spyware stealthily captures keystrokes and sensitive data to compromise accounts. Phishing attacks lure users into unwittingly surrendering account credentials and other crucial information. Ransomware uses a much less subtle tactic of demanding the money directly in exchange for the safe return of your own data.The ...
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Sunday, November 28th, 2010 Armitage is a graphical cyber attack management tool for Metasploit that visualizes your targets, recommends exploits, and exposes the advanced capabilities of the framework. Armitage aims to make Metasploit usable for security practitioners who understand hacking but don't use Metasploit every day. If you want to learn Metasploit and grow ...
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