Computer Crime

Hackers utilize fake YouTube pages to attack computers

Computer security experts warn that fake pages could be used to launch malware Kuwait Times via NewsEdge Corporation SAN FRANCISCO: Computer security specialists warn that hackers are using fake YouTube pages to trick people...

Mafiaboy grows up: A hacker seeks redemption

The Internet attack took Yahoo engineers by surprise. It came so fast and with such intensity that Yahoo, then the Web's second most-popular destination, was knocked offline for about three hours. On the day he knocked Yahoo...

Is Using the Cloud Information Security Suicide for Enterprises?

On the face of it, the apparent hacking of Sarah Palin’s Yahoo mail account may have hurt the cloud’s onward march into enterprise credibility. By using services in the cloud to hold corporate data, as opposed to within our...

Reigns Down Personal Attack On Low-Carb Blogger Jimmy Moore

Somebody out there must really be mad at me right now. I don't know what I said or did to deserve any of the things that have happened to me this week, but whatever it is I apologize. Since Monday, I have been under a daily...

CastleCops nemesis gets two-year sentence

Irascible hacker's $70k botnet rampage An American hacker has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for waging potent attacks that took down two volunteer websites for days at a time. Gregory C. King of Fairfield,...

News: Frame injection exploits Google flaw

Google's Gmail login page can be spoofed for a phishing attack, using a frame injection technique and exploiting a Google domain vulnerability. That claim comes from Adrian Pastor of the GNUCitizen ethical hacking-collective,...

Online Identity Theft and Digital Playgrounds Whitepapers

I wanted to bring your attention to two whitepapers covering important Internet identity topics that were published by members of Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing and Privacy teams, both announced on the blog The Data Privacy...

Mafiaboy grows up: A hacker seeks redemption

The Internet attack took Yahoo engineers by surprise. It came so fast and with such intensity that Yahoo, then the Web's second most-popular destination, was knocked offline for about three hours.That was on the morning of Feb....

iovation to Speak at ETRE 2008

PORTLAND, Ore. --(Business Wire)-- In its continued commitment to protecting businesses from more sophisticated forms of online fraud and abuse, fraud management solutions provider, iovation, will speak at this year's ETRE 2008...

PR Web daily: Strategic Partnership to Offer NEXUS ID- The only complete FACTA "Red Flag Rules"...

Shared vision for a Best of Breed FACTA Red Flag Rules Compliance Solution -- National ID Recovery, LLC and Veratad Technologies, LLC announced today a strategic partnership to release NEXUS ID, a product based on a shared...

               

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Hackers , Identity Theft