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Microsoft Exchange Attack Underlines How Vulnerable Your Organizational Data Is
The attack on Microsoft Exchange has had global repercussions, although the full extent of the damage is still unclear.
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Assessing the Risks of Cyber Attacks
Cyber hackers cracked the US federal government earlier this month, exposing personnel information for about 4 million current and former federal employees. Cyber attackers targeted the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and may have originated in China.
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'Lizard Squad' Targets Sony in New DDoS Attack
Today brought more hacker woes for Sony's PlayStation Network (PSN) and Sony Entertainment Network in the form of a crippling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack from a vandal collective known as "Lizard Squad.
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Googlebot Imposters Attack, Hack and Spam Your Site
According to new research released today by Incapsula, a web security firm, millions of these “evil twins” are used for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS ) attacks, hacking, spam, content theft and other shady activities on a daily basis.
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World Cup Website Hacked: Is Yours Vulnerable, Too?
Hacktivists have delivered on their promise to take down Brazil’s official World Cup website, effectively disrupting this year’s competition and adding significant weight to their ongoing global threats to use of computers and computer networks to promote political ends, This is no surprise, according to Incapsula, a cloud-based website security and
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New Hack Targets Windows XP Computers
Microsoft is warning XP users to avoid using a hack that allows continued security updates of the operating system, despite the fact that the company put an end to XP support in early April. In a statement released to ZDnet on Monday, the company said: We recently became aware
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Hacked! Attack of the DDoS Protection Services
DDoS attacks sabotage corporate websites to make them unavailable to legitimate visitors. Researchers at Incapsula, a cloud-based website security and performance service, said DDoS attacks are getting stronger, faster, bigger and smarter.
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How Hackers Can Use Facebook, Google to Crash Your Website
Watch your website — and this time, you have bigger threats than viral videos or suspected porn. Hackers can apparently exploit vulnerabilities in Facebook and Google to perform distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on target websites — and neither Internet giant seems overly concerned, according to the developer that alerted
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Millions of Social Networks Accounts Hacked
How about a scare for the weekend? According to internet security firm Trustwave, more than 2 million passwords for social media sites including Facebook and Twitter, as well as passwords for Yahoo and Google, have been hacked and posted online. Social Media Hacked In a blog post on the company’s website, it states that a Botnet called
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Oracle Plugs Critical Security Holes
Oracle has announced the release of a massive security patch for Java that addresses at least 51 identified security vulnerabilities. If you think this does not affect you, keep in mind that Oracle says 89 percent of desktops run Java in one form or another.
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Adobe Is Hacked: Customers' Personal Data, Product Source Code Compromised
Adobe has confirmed that one of its servers has been hacked. In a statement that appeared on an Adobe blog by Adobe security chief Brad Arkin, the company admits that the attackers removed information on 2.
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iOS In-App Purchases Hacked, Content Available For Free
Actually, for "hacked" read "redirected", as a Russian malcontent shows off a simple DNS change that can give Apple users free content from many iPhone and iPad apps, all without the need for jailbreaking or advanced cracking skills.
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The Aftermath: Amazon EC2, Sony PlayStation Network Recover from Cloud Crashes
Amazon's (news, site ) Elastic Cloud Compute service went down last week and is still recovering today, after bringing a number of major services to a standstill. Meanwhile, Sony's PlayStation network is also experiencing problems.
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Security Issues Plague Web CMS PHP Fusion
Security seems to be the topic of the day. With browsers rushing to release security hot fixes and CMS’s trying to keep their systems as secure as possible, the news from Web CMS PHP Fusion comes at a bad time. Yesterday, PHP Fusion announced that someone had hacked their site and
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