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Dell, AMD executives accused of selling confidential information
Market research companies usually pay experts from various industries to give their opinion and provide information about future trends in those industries, and they sell that …
Ohio State University database hacked
A database containing Social Security numbers, addresses and dates of birth of everyone who’s ever had an Ohio State University e-mail address (@osu.edu) has been …
Mozilla expands its bug bounty program
Back in 2004, the Mozilla Foundation instituted a bug bounty program that rewarded users who reported critical security vulnerabilities on the Foundation’s software with …
Twitter spam campaign leads to computer-hijacking rogue AV
Malicious shortened goo.gl links and compromised accounts are once again used to lure users to pages that will ultimately harm their computer. A message saying “a very …
Malicious .rtf file exploits MS Office flaw
A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in Microsoft Office has recently been spotted being exploited in the wild by attackers aiming at getting control of targeted …
Gawker breach triggers password-changing requests from Yahoo, Twitter
The compromise of Gawker’s database containing some 1.3 million user login credentials and the realization that a lot of users – despite constantly being advised …
Bank of America sues ex-employees for stealing confidential data
Four former employees of the Bank of America stand accused of illegally copying a confidential database belonging to the bank’s U.S. Trust and taking it with them to the …
Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner 7
A manual search for vulnerabilities would simply take too much time, so penetration testers usually use an automated web vulnerability scanner to do the preliminary work for …
McDonald’s data breach just the tip of the iceberg
A couple of days ago, the database containing the names, mobile phone numbers, and postal addresses and/or e-mail addresses of McDonald’s customers was discovered to …
FBI put backdoors in OpenBSD IPSEC stack?
Some serious allegations have been raised yesterday as Theo de Raadt, founder and leader of the OpenBSD and OpenSSH projects, has made public a private e-mail he received from …
Database breach that could endanger lives
A database breach that could result in more than just identity theft is the result of a compromise of the online database of the Mesa County Sheriff’s Department …
New Trojan hijacks shortcuts to ensure its execution
A new information-stealing Trojan that seems to be Chinese in origin has been detected by Avira’ researchers. It is designed to steal usernames and passwords associated …