Tag: hack
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Little sympathy for breached Hacking Team
Lists of customers, source code and zero-day vulnerabilities made public. The biggest security story of this week, and probably one of the biggest of the year, is the hack of Italian company Hacking Team . The story has been covered widely, for instance by Wired , Ars Technica , The Register and Forbes , as…
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Mysql.com hacked, serving malware
Root access to site offered on black market. Yesterday, mysql.com, the official website of the popular database management system MySQL , was hacked and visitors to the website were at risk of being infected with malware. The hack of popular websites is nothing new, and with such sites serving as the shop windows of the…
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Bank’s Twitter account hacked to send phishing messages
Important lessons for companies engaging in social media. Last week, the Twitter account of the Bank of Melbourne was hacked and used to send direct messages containing phishing links to its followers. A recently relaunched subsidiary of Westpac , the Australian bank engages heavily with its customers through its @BankofMelb Twitter account. However, the security…
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Iranians spied on using rogue DigiNotar certificates
Fake certificates signed for CIA, Mossad, Google, Facebook. It is likely that Iranian Internet users have been spied on following a hack discovered at Dutch certificate authority (CA) DigiNotar last week, according to Trend Micro . In July, a hack at DigiNotar resulted in a large number of fake SSL certificates being issued for popular…