EBay says an incident which resulted in the names and personal information of the 1,200 users being displayed online wasn’t the result of a security breach. And it’s phoning each customer to explain the situation, says PC World. When the data, which included credit card numbers, “suddenly appeared” on eBay’s Trust & Safety Discussion Board where public […]
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Malicious hackers could run malware on targeted computers by exploiting a serious security hole in AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). AOL has acknowledged the vulnerability, “and recommended users upgrade to the latest version of the AIM beta client, which is immune to the problem,” says SearchSecurity.com, quoting Core Security Technologies, which discovered the breach. “Specifically, an attacker could […]
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Famed indexing site The Pirate Bay has filed a criminal complaint against a group of entertainment firms it says have been paying professional hackers, saboteurs and ddosers to destroy its trackers. Says the TPB blog: Thanks to the email-leakage from MediaDefender-Defenders we now have proof of the things we’ve been suspecting for a long time; the big […]
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You might wonder why Microsoft is only just focusing security efforts on Office 2003, blogs Microsoft software engineer David LeBlanc. After all, didn’t the company think about security when it shipped it? It did indeed, he says, going on: Office 2003 was the first version to go through a security push, and when the first version of […]
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Mozilla has released updated Firefox 2.0.0.7 to patch a critical Apple QuickTime security hole announced only six days ago. “It seams that QuickTime media formats can hack into Firefox,” posted Petko D. Petkov on GnuCitizen, continuing: The result of this vulnerability can lead to full compromise of the browser and maybe even the underlaying operating system … Before […]
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Last Friday, Ameritrade alerted account holders and posted a public advisory admitting a hacker had penetrated one of its databases and stolen information identifying some of its 6.3 million customers. Names, email addresses, phone numbers and home addresses were taken stolen, says Associated Press, going on: The company would not share many details of its investigation, including […]
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Average annual losses linked to cyber-crime are up again. US companies said their losses more than doubled from $168,000 in last year’s report to $350,424 in this year’s survey, ending a five-year holiday, says a new report. Financial fraud overtook virus attacks as the source of the greatest financial loss, says the Computer Security Institute (CSI) in […]
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With various elements of the record industry abandoning DRM, Microsoft still believes it has value, although under a different name. It’s been granted a patent for what it’s calling Stealthy Audio Watermarking, a technology created to “protect digital content even when it is distributed without DRM protection”. Says Patent 7,266,697: The watermark identifies the content producer, providing a […]
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Skype users are being warned they may be attacked by a worm which penetrates chat to send a message linking to to an infected .jpg. “The worm, which different vendors identify as Ramex, Skipi or Pykspa, uses Skype’s chat function to send users a short message that contains a link to a jpg file, according to […]
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Microsoft’s latest release of security fixes includes a patch for a flaw which could be used by malicious hackers to hijack computers running Microsoft IM. But only one vulnerability, limited to to the Windows 2000, rates a “critical” tag. “A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft Agent in the way that it handles certain specially crafted […]
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