Wednesday, January 1st, 2014
Hackers appear to have posted account info for 4.6 million users of quickie social-sharing app Snapchat, making usernames and at least partial phone numbers available for download.
The data were posted to the website SnapchatDB.info. By late Wednesday morning, that site had been suspended.
The hack was seemingly intended to urge Snapchat to ...
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Tuesday, December 17th, 2013
A paper released earlier this month by a group of security researchers has outlined the technical details behind a potential Computer Network Exploitation (CNE) program likely used by the U.K. Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and their American counterpart, the NSA.
Moreover, the researcher's say that one of the largest telecom providers ...
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Thursday, November 28th, 2013
Trend Micro came across samples of an exploit targeting the recently announced zero-day vulnerability affecting Windows XP and Server 2003. This is an elevation of privilege vulnerability, which may allow a threat actor to gain certain privileges that enable him to do varied activities, including deleting or viewing data, installing programs, or ...
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Wednesday, November 27th, 2013
Symantec has discovered a new Linux worm that appears to be engineered to target the “Internet of things”. The worm is capable of attacking a range of small, Internet-enabled devices in addition to traditional computers. Variants exist for chip architectures usually found in devices such as home routers, set-top boxes ...
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Wednesday, November 13th, 2013
Cracked.com, a humor website that is among the 300 most popular sites in the U.S., may have left visitors a sobering surprise this week.
According to Barracuda Labs, as of Sunday the website was compromised to host the Nuclear Pack exploit kit.
Daniel Peck, principal research scientist on the security team at Barracuda Labs, ...
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