The IT security industry is no stranger to urban myths: stories that spread and, over time, become accepted as general truths. Global IT vendor Panda Security has been asking its…
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Back in 2007, the Burmese government reportedly severed the country’s Internet links in a crackdown over growing political unrest. Yesterday, Burma once again fell off the Internet. Over the last…
INSECURITY VENDOR Kaspersky Labs suffered a shocker over the weekend with the firm’s US website getting hacked.
Facebook has launched a new security feature allowing users to request a temporary password if they are using a public computer. A post on the Facebook blog explains that users can…
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…
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…
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…
The weakness was reported yesterday to the XSSed Project by a security researcher
Damn Vulnerable Linux (DVL) is everything a good Linux distribution isn’t. Its developers have spent hours stuffing it with broken, ill-configured, outdated, and exploitable software that makes it vulnerable to…
A top Pentagon official has confirmed a previously classified incident that he describes as “the most significant breach of U.S. military computers ever,” a 2008 episode in which a foreign…