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Gannett Government Media user information stolen
The Gannett Government Media family of websites suffered a cyber attack on resulting in unauthorized access to files containing user information. The information in those …
Thousands of Tumblr accounts compromised
Tumblr users have been targeted with an aggressive phishing campaign in the last week or so and are still being lured into entering their login credentials for access to adult …
LulzSec leaks classified Arizona law enforcement documents
“We are releasing hundreds of private intelligence bulletins, training manuals, personal email correspondence, names, phone numbers, addresses and passwords belonging to …
Fake federal tax payment emails lead to malware
“Your federal tax payment was rejected”. We imagine that the sight of these words would make even the most security-aware individuals click on anything in sight as …
Faster password hashes cracking based on the DES algorithm on CPUs
Openwall released an updated version of John the Ripper, a password security auditing tool and open source project, providing the community with improvements in the …
Dropbox security glitch allowed anyone to access user accounts
Web-based file hosting service Dropbox has confirmed that a bug introduced by a code push allowed anyone to access any user account by simply typing in a random password for a …
LulzSec discloses 62,000+ random login credentials
LulzSec rampages on. They claimed they took out cia.gov for a couple of hours tonight, but its difficult to say whether they really did it or whether the site was made …
App that revealed most common iPhone passcodes booted from App Store
Following the publication of the statistics concerning the most common iPhone passcodes that application developer Daniel Amitay has shared on Tuesday, Apple’s …
10 most common iPhone passcodes
The problem of poor passwords is not confined to computer use, and the fact was discovered by an app developer who has added code to capture user passcodes to one of its …
LulzSec warns NHS about compromised passwords
As a reaction to the “bucket list” of a girl battling Hodgkin’s lymphoma going viral on the Internet and her call to people to donate bone marrow, LulzSec …
Stolen passwords used as bait in malware spam run
At the rate at which databases of various online services are currently being compromised, I expect that emails such as this latest one spotted by Symantec will become a …
Sniff and intercept web session profiles on Android
FaceNiff is an Android app that allows you to sniff and intercept web session profiles over the Wi-Fi that your mobile is connected to. It is possible to hijack sessions only …
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