A lone researcher recently claimed to have accumulated adequate vulnerabilities in a range of ActiveX controls to unleash a bug each day for the month of May. Dubbing the effort the Month of ActiveX Bugs (MoAxB), the attacker, identified himself as...
Tag - Hacker
The volume of hacking attacks has been so deep and sound that when it is carried out the affected party is encountered with a huge amount of irreparable losses. The hackers with the aim of fulfilling their malicious monetary designs renders affected...
Hackers are trying to swindle consumers into making purchase of software, which claims to be genuine anti-spyware apps. There are at present four phony security suites on the market for each one genuine product, download site Snapfiles told Vnunet.com....
Kaspersky says that cyber crooks are getting increasingly smart day by day. Taking into consideration the declining arrest rate of the online creeps, they seem to be getting success in outwitting law- enforcement agencies. Eugene Kaspersky boss of...
Recently a news was hovering around online world that a hacker has obtained sensitive data from software company called Valve, comprising credit card info from users who have bought content from its digital distribution system Steam. It has been...
The Daily Telegraph Online recently warned of an Internet hacker, who claimed to have got the names of the BB housemates who were going to be seen for the 1st time in the house for the 7th series. It was reported that the hacker had detected...
Macworld recently came up with a report on a winning hack, which is purported by Shane Macaulay and Dino Dai Zovi for the Hack a Mac contest at CanSecWest in recent week.
The conference and contest came about between April 18-20th in Vancouver,...
An online hacker who burglarized an Indiana government web site and victimized the identities of 71,000 health care employees and 5,600 people who bought government services online, is also claimed to have targeted other state government websites. Yes,...
A researcher that sometime back claimed to have detected an exploit-for-sale service, recently purported that newly-found creepy-crawly in Windows Vista's integrated e-mail program is suspected to be exploited by hackers to sprint nasty code on a...
According to a security expert, corporate IT managers are advised to intensify their attempts to combat targeted attacks, which will heighten in magnitude and subtleness this year. As reported by software firm CA Inc, attacks with the aim of committing...
An unidentified hacker claims to have detected a dangerous security vulnerability in the software that sprints Microsoft's Xbox 360 and let a hacker take partial control of the system. By identifying the susceptibility, Microsoft had issued a fix on 9...
The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) released an alert warning recently, which claims that compound vulnerabilities in commonly used technical support tools could open Windows PCs to cyberattack, as the exposed tools are often used by...
A paedophile who made use of internet chat rooms to hack into the PCs of schoolgirls and blackmail them into exposing explicit pictures of themselves was imprisoned for 10 years yesterday. Adrian Ringland, 36, from Ilkeston, Derbyshire, made use of a...
Sneaky hackers infiltrate a user’s computer, change his/her password and then defraud them for money by making use of his/her account. Ardney Rise-based InTouch Systems in Norwich has advised on how not to get a computer hacked into:
(1) Have a good...
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