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Archive for October, 2010

Spammers Using SHY Character to Hide Malicious URLs

Posted by deepcore under Security (4 Responds)

Spammers have jumped on the little-used soft hyphen (or SHY character) to fool URL filtering devices. According to researchers at Symantec Corp., spammers are larding up URLs for sites they promote with the soft hyphen character, which many browsers ignore. Spammers aren’t shy about jumping humans flexible cognitive abilities to slip past the notice of […]

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How To Steal Your Friend’s Facebook Passwords

Posted by deepquest under facebook (No Respond)

Want to log in to your friend’s Facebook account? While hacking into a Facebook account isn’t that easy, stealing your friend’s password isn’t too hard if you can figure out a clever way to grab it. One Facebook user came up with a pretty funny way to discover his friend’s Facebook passwords. Check out the […]

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Hacking Into Washington’s Online Voting Experiment

Posted by deepquest under banking, Security (3 Responds)

The hackers, a team of computer scientists from Ann Arbor, Mich., were capable of damage far less sophomoric. When the District’s Board of Elections and Ethics issued an open invitation for hackers to find vulnerabilities in a pilot system to allow overseas and military voters to cast ballots over the Web, it took about 36 […]

Shore town victimized by bank hacker 

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Levittown  Computer hackers managed to steal $600,000 from a New Jersey shore town’s bank account. Officials say $200,000 still hasn’t been recovered. TD Bank notified Brigantine on Tuesday that multiple wire transfers had taken place from its account. Police said someone was able to get a user name and password.