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[Gilbert]

Former Microsoft Security Analyst Probes Possible Police Civil Rights Violations
26 April 2010, 5:07 pm

For the past year and a half, Eric Rachner, a former security analyst at Microsoft, who currently works as an independent security consultant, has been trying to prove that Seattle police officers unlawfully arrested him for refusal to provide an ID. Through his insistent probing the researcher might have uncovered... (read more)

Source: Softpedia News - Security

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[Gilbert]

Google-Cached Blippy Pages Exposed Credit Card Numbers
24 April 2010, 12:42 pm

Around 200 transactions shared by users on new social networking service Blippy exposed sensitive data such as credit card numbers. The information had been accessible for months via a simple Google search query, until the start-up had it removed from the search engine's cache yesterday.

Blippy is a new social networking start-up... (read more)

Source: Softpedia News - Security

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[Gilbert]

Email Spam Run Impersonates Twitter Support Staff
23 April 2010, 4:58 pm

Security researchers warn of an on-going email spam campaign, which masquerades as messages from Twitter's support team. The fake emails also abuse the logo and layout of the popular micro-blogging platform.

The rogue messages have spoofed headers in order to appear to be originating from support@twitter.com. According to Panda Securi... (read more)

Source: Softpedia News - Security

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[Gilbert]

McAfee's False Positive Incident Exploited to Infect Users
22 April 2010, 3:43 pm

A false positive (FP) malware detection incident, which affected McAfee customers yesterday, is being exploited by cybercrooks to spread scareware. A black hat search engine optimization (BHSEO) campaign that poisoned search results related to the unfortunate event has been observed.

On April 21, 2010, a malware definitions u... (read more)

Source: Softpedia News - Security

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[Gilbert]

McAfee Definitions Update Crashes Millions of Computers
22 April 2010, 10:02 am

A malware definitions update pushed by antivirus giant McAfee to its customers yesterday contained a buggy detection routine that caused millions of computers to go into a reboot loop. The severe system instability issue resulted from erroneous blocking of the critical svchost.exe file on computers running Windows XP SP3.

The pr... (read more)

Source: Softpedia News - Security

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[Gilbert]

Websites Hosted at Network Solutions Targeted in Mass Injection Attack
21 April 2010, 4:37 pm

Thousands of websites hosted at Network Solutions have been compromised and had their index pages injected with a malicious IFrame. This appears to be a reiteration of an attack that took place over a week ago, but targeted only WordPress-powered blogs.

The new mass injection attack has been reported by Sucuri Sec... (read more)

Source: Softpedia News - Security

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[Gilbert]

Le Monde Attacked by Romanian Nationalist Hackers
20 April 2010, 5:30 pm

A group of Romanian hacktivists, who recently defaced two websites associated with The Daily Telegraph as a protest against negative depictions of the Romanian people in the British media, attacked the French newspaper Le Monde over the weekend, citing similar reasons.

On April 14, a previously unknown group of hackers identifying t... (read more)

Source: Softpedia News - Security

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[Gilbert]

Russia Tops List of Internet Attacks in Q4 2009
19 April 2010, 3:54 pm

A 2009 Q4 report from Akamai paints a gloomy picture for Internet users in the realm of security. While the number of countries attacks originated from went down, other statistics weren't that positive.

In Q3, Akamai recorded more than 207 countries attacks originated from. In Q4, that number went down, but only to 198. Atop the list is... (read more)

Source: Softpedia News - Security

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[Gilbert]

Volcanic Ash Cloud May End Up Harming Your Computer
17 April 2010, 12:57 pm

The recent volcanic eruption at Eyjafjallaj

[Gilbert]

Multiple EDIMAX Websites Hacked
17 April 2010, 9:00 am

A Lebanese greyhat hacker reports finding an SQL injection vulnerability in edimax.com. According to him, the flaw can be exploited to extract administrative credentials for all of the hardware manufacturer's websites.

In an e-mail to Softpedia, a self-confessed security enthusiast, who goes by the online moniker of "Idahc," disclosed in-depth information ... (read more)

Source: Softpedia News - Security

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[Gilbert]

Chinese Earthquake Used to Spread Scareware
15 April 2010, 5:28 pm

The earthquake that hit China two days ago is still being used as a theme for scareware-pushing black hat search engine optimization campaigns. Search results related to the unfortunate event are riddled with malicious links trying to infect users.

On April 14th at 7:49 am local time (April 13th 23:49 pm UTC), an earthquake with a magnitu... (read more)

Source: Softpedia News - Security

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[Gilbert]

The Daily Telegraph Hit by Romanian Hacktivists
15 April 2010, 3:31 pm

Two websites hosted on the telegraph.co.uk domain were defaced to display Romanian patriotic messages and the country's flag, yesterday. The hacktivists who claimed responsibility for the attack expressed anger at the British media for portraying the Romanian people in an unfavorable light.

The attack targeted the wine-and-dine.tele... (read more)

Source: Softpedia News - Security

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[Gilbert]

Complex Attack Hits Apache.org Services
14 April 2010, 4:33 pm

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) announces that several of its services were targeted in a complex attack that led to a server being completely hacked and another partially compromised. A considerable number of possibly insecure password hashes have also been lifted from the organization's systems.

The attack started on April 5 when someone... (read more)

Source: Softpedia News - Security

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[Gilbert]

Malicious PDFs Abusing /Launch Feature Spotted in the Wild
13 April 2010, 4:45 pm

Security researchers from antivirus vendor Sophos warn that malicious PDF files exploiting the /Launch feature present in most PDF viewers have already been detected in the wild. The booby-trapped documents trick users into installing malware on their systems.

About two weeks ago, reputed PDF security researcher Didier Stevens... (read more)

Source: Softpedia News - Security

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[Gilbert]

Polish Presidential Plane Crash Exploited by Scareware Pushers
12 April 2010, 5:23 pm

The recent plane crash that resulted in the death of Polish President Lech Kaczyński and tens of other state officials is currently being exploited via BHSEO campaigns. Search results related to the tragedy have been poisoned with malicious links that push scareware-type computer programs.

On April 10th, 2010, a Tupole... (read more)

Source: Softpedia News - Security

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