News tagged with secure websites

Informatics students discover, alert Facebook to threat allowing access to private data, bogus messaging

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Facebook security vulnerability discovered by a pair of doctoral students at Indiana University Bloomington's School of Informatics and Computing that allowed malicious websites to uncover ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

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Experts uncover weakness in Internet security

Independent security researchers in California and researchers at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in the Netherlands, EPFL in Switzerland, and Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the Netherlands have found ...

Technology / Internet

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Hackers booby-trap foreign policy group websites

Internet security researchers warned that foreign policy and human rights websites are being booby-trapped by hackers in what appears to be cyber espionage.

Technology / Internet

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Cyber attack on Europe exposes big flaws in Internet security

A major cyber attack in Europe that apparently was launched from Iran has revealed significant vulnerabilities in the Internet security systems used to authenticate websites for banking, email and e-commerce around the world.

Technology / Internet

created Sep 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Hackers claim to breach NATO security

A group of computer hackers on Thursday claimed to have breached NATO security and accessed hoards of restricted material.

Technology / Internet

created Jul 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 7

Cyberattacks on South Korea-US a test run: McAfee (Update 2)

Cyberattacks on US and South Korean military websites in March may have been a test by North Korea or sympathizers, according to a report released Tuesday by computer security firm McAfee.

Technology / Internet

created Jul 05, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Hackers breach US Senate website (Update)

A shadowy group of hackers behind a string of recent cyberattacks claimed on Monday to have breached the US Senate website and taken internal data.

Technology / Internet

created Jun 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 9

Sony Ericsson's Canada site hacked: company

Hackers have attacked Sony Ericsson's Canadian eShop website, affecting 2,000 users, the latest online strike against the Japanese electronics and entertainment giant, a Sony spokesman said Wednesday.

Technology / Internet

created May 25, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Hackers make 57,000 booby-trapped websites weekly: experts

About 57,000 seemingly legitimate websites booby-trapped by hackers spring up on the Internet each week, computer security researchers at PandaLabs said.

Technology / Internet

created Sep 10, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Facebook users hooked in new 'phishing' scam

Facebook on Friday was blocking links to bogus websites set up to look like the home page of the popular social network in a "phishing" attack by hackers.

Technology / Internet

created May 15, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Spam down but 'zombie' armies growing: McAfee

Hackers appear to be beefing up armies of "zombie" computers to recover from a major hit scored in the battle against spam email, according to software security firm McAfee.

Technology / Internet

created May 07, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Downadup Worm Hits Over 3.5 Million Computers

(PhysOrg.com) -- Security firm F-Secure has advised that the Downadup worm has spread to more than 3.5 million computers by exploiting a vulnerability Microsoft patched last October. This is achieved by trying ...

Technology / Internet

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Internet thieves piggyback on legitimate users

Theft of Internet service is on the rise, and experts say only a few of the culprits are being caught.

Technology / Telecom

created Apr 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Hacker group Anonymous takes down Vatican website

The hacking group Anonymous took down several Vatican websites on Wednesday, saying it was targeting the "corrupt" Catholic Church, a day after a high-profile bust of the group's alleged leaders.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Hackers apparently hit Swedish government site

(AP) -- A group linked to the hacker network Anonymous says it has attacked the Swedish government's website and shut it down by overloading it.

Technology / Internet

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