Friday, June 22nd, 2012
A big amount of the malware out there are RAT (Remote administration tool) samples. This is software created by people specialized on it, people that develop, improve and sell their tools. It has capabilities that let the attacker spy on the victims with actions like screen capturing, keylogging, password stealing, ...
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Friday, June 8th, 2012
A list with several million passwords belonging to users of the music community site Last.fm has been posted on the internet. The site owners have posted a statement saying that the company is investigating the leak and that all users of the service should change their passwords immediately. This is ...
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Wednesday, June 6th, 2012
LinkedIn said today that some passwords on a list of allegedly stolen hashed passwords belong to its members, but did not say how its site was compromised.
"We can confirm that some of the passwords that were compromised correspond to LinkedIn accounts," Vicente Silveira, a director at the professional social networking ...
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Sunday, April 1st, 2012
Ever since I moved into this apartment complex I have received monthly emails from rentpayment.com (a service from YapStone) as a reminder to pay my rent with a handy "click here to pay" type of link included. Whenever I would click that link I would be immediately logged into the ...
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Monday, September 5th, 2011
Read the September 5th update at the bottom of this page:
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002223.html
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