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March 2010 8 posts

Ubisoft Servers Hit By DDoS Attack Over The Weekend 
 Vodafone Shipped Malware Infected HTC Magic Smartphones 
 Energizer Duo Software Included Backdoor Trojan 
 Botnet Used To Solve CAPTCHA And Snatch Up Premium Tickets 
 Argos Expose Unencrypted Credit Card Data In Email Receipts 
 World Of Warcraft Gamers Hit By Man-In-The-Middle Attacks 
 Law Enforcement Agencies In Spain And USA Dismantled One Of The Largest Botnets In History 
 Pressing F1 In Internet Explorer Might Allow Malware Installation In Older Windows Versions

February 2010 14 posts

VirusTotal Brand Abused To Push Scareware Through Forum Spam 
 Rootkit-based Exploits Could Eavesdrop Smartphones 
 School District Accused Of Spying On Students In Their Homes 
 Adobe's Reader And Flash Installing Software Can Install Malware 
 Attack Code For Mozilla's Firefox Zero-day Vulnerability Released By Researcher 
 Google Buzz Vulnerability Reveals User Geo Location 
 Twitter Grader Service Hacked, Thousands Of Unauthorized Tweets Posted From User Accounts 
 New Banking Trojan Discovered in the Wild 
 Blackberry Spyware Source Code, TXSBBspy, Released By Veracode 
 Encryption Used To Prevent Eavesdropping Cracked, More Than 800 Million Cordless Phones Affected Worldwide 
 Significant Number Of WordPress Websites Compromised, IFrame Used For Affiliate Scheme 
 Malware-laced Firefox Add-ons Available On Official Website Overlooked By Mozilla 
 iPhone Vulnerable To Remote Attack On SSL 
 Warez Backdoor Allowed Hackers To Steal Twitter Passwords

January 2010 31 posts

CIA, PayPal, Hundreds Of Other Websites Under Unexplained SSL Assault 
 Firefox-based Attack Abuse IRC Networks 
 US Congressional Websites Hit By Mass Defacement Attack 
 Internet Explorer Flaw Reveals Web Surfers Hard Drive Contents 
 Hackers Deface TechCrunch.com And Abuse Admins 
 PlayStation 3 Gaming Console Cracked By iPhone Hacker 
 Ladbrokes Gamblers Database Breached, 4.5 Million Details Are For Sale 
 Computers Worldwide Targetted By A Destructive MBR Worm Zimuse 
 Whirlpool's Kitchenaid.com Remains Malware Infected For 5 Months 
 Boards.ie Database Breached, Admins Reset Passwords For All Members 
 Unlicensed vBulletin Installations Vulnerability Allow Unauthorized Directory Listing 
 Unknown Computer Virus Hits University Of Exeter Network In UK 
 Vulnerable osCommerce Websites Exploited To Distribute Scareware Through Blackhat Search Engine Optimization 
 Hundreds Of Websites Hosted At Network Solutions Defaced 
 Microsoft, Adobe, Apple Fix Critical Security Vulnerabilities 
 0-day Vulnerability In Internet Explorer 6, 7 And 8 Exploited In Recent Chinese Attack 
 BerliOS Open Source Project Portal Hacked And Defaced 
 Trojan Porn Dialers Make Comeback On Mobile Phones 
 Targeted Attack Hits Chinese Gmail Accounts, Google Might Exit China 
 Server Of Suffolk County National Bank Breached, 8,300 Customer Logins Stolen 
 Twitter DNS Hackers Hit Chinese Search Engine Baidu.com 
 Rogue Phishing App Spread Through Android Marketplace 
 US Army Website Compromised Through SQL Injection 
 Office.Microsoft.Com Search Results Can Lead To Rogue Anti-Virus 
 DDOS Attack Hits Cheshire-based ISP Vispa, 30,000 Customers Forced Offline 
 Pakistani National Response Center For Cyber Crimes Website Defaced, Hackers Mocked And Accessed Private Data 
 Massive Data Breach In Eastern Washington University, 130,000 Student Records Exposed 
 Over 3 Million Dollars Stolen From School's Bank Account, 500,000 Still Missing 
 Cryptographers Have Broken 768-bit RSA Keys Using Public-key Algorithm 
 Official Web Site Of Iran’s President, Ahmadinejad, Attacked By Hackers 
 Security Flaw In Kingston Memory Sticks, DataTraveler Editions Being Recalled

December 2009 28 posts

November 2009 27 posts

October 2009 19 posts

September 2009 14 posts

August 2009 21 posts

July 2009 27 posts

June 2009 19 posts

May 2009 24 posts

April 2009 22 posts

March 2009 28 posts

February 2009 32 posts

January 2009 26 posts

December 2008 24 posts

November 2008 40 posts

October 2008 42 posts

September 2008 42 posts

August 2008 40 posts

July 2008 38 posts

June 2008 39 posts

May 2008 59 posts

April 2008 93 posts

March 2008 54 posts