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Off-to-jail hacker tells how he stole VOIP on massive scale

Robert Moore at left, a 23 year-old hacker from Spokane, Wash., is to go to prison later this week for his role in a plot to steal VoIP services from some 15 legitimate VoIP providers and then sell them as a separate company.Information Week's Sharon Gaudin  has some quotes from...

Tags: Password, Hacker, Robert Moore, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-09-27

Bad security week for Microsoft, Apple, and Blizzard

Another zero-day threat hits Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 and 6 just after Microsoft issued an emergency out-of-cycle patch for the VML threat. This new critical threat had been known for 2 months but missed Septembers patch Tuesday. Microsoft is expected to patch it next Tuesday but attacks are...

Tags: exploit, hacker

Blog posts 2006-10-02

Xpert Security Package 1 (Windows)

Xpert Security Package provides essential protection from email spam, hackers, and privacy threats. Anti-spam Engine is the best and most configurable anti-spam solution. Password Container keeps personal data in and hackers out - you will never lose an important password or information ever. And Privacy Patrol safeguards you and your...

Tags: Password, Anti-spam, Microsoft Windows, Hacker, Bluemorning, Xpert Security Package, Anti-spam Engine, Password Container, Spam, E-mail, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications

Software downloads 2006-03-13

Hacker speaks out.

Sigh, Yet another call for social solutions to technical problems. Hacker Kevin Mitnick calls for more employee awareness training. Anyone who has ever been in an IT department knows that within a week after the two day seminar on using strong passwords like W9T%$zx0 instead of weak passwords like "manchester"...

Tags: strong password, password

Blog posts 2005-03-04

Stopping spam at the source

Stopping spam at the sourceFive years late... and what a mess now !All these wonderful solutions are only five years late and just bandaids to fix a broken system everyone knew about years ago but ignored. Now that e-commerce is about to come to a screaming halt, all of a...

Tags: SECURITY, Domain names, SPF, Sender ID, spammer, hacker, bank, spam, password

Discussion threads 2004-08-23

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iHacked: jailbroken iPhones compromised, $5 ransom demanded

... WHAT?Who in their right mind keep a server running with default usernames/passwords on the default port....I doubt that jailbroken iPhones are alone in this. It's possible, specially if iPhones have a ssh server running, that this could happen on non-jailbroken iPhones also.Just one question...Has this person been remanded yet?...

Tags: Smart phones, extortion, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Gaping security hole in Time Warner cable routers

how about telling us how to fix it?Can the customer log into their own router and change the vulnerable settings? Please advise.Patetic simply pateticThis is a worst case scenario... Time Warner is guilty of having used the same Admin Name/Password on all their routers and from what I read on...

Tags: Routers & switches, Modems, Network technology, NETWORKING, SMC8014, Model Number, Time Warner Cable Inc., router, modem, Time Warner Inc., Comcast Corp., security

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

Weak passwords dominate statistics for Hotmail's phishing scheme leak

Weak Passwords suckUntil about 4 years ago my organization had no restrictions on passwords. Our students got their birthdays or their phone numbers as passwords and our staff could choose whatever they wanted. Most common staff password was 1234. Well after years of security breaches and administration...

Tags: MSN Hotmail, phishing, password, weak password

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

Sun patches 'critical' StarOffice/StarSuite flaw

Sun patches Openoffice.org with 3.1.1The security problem in "CVE-2009-0200 / CVE-2009-0201: Manipulated Microsoft Word files can lead to heap overflows and arbitrary code execution" was patched in Openoffice.org in version 3.1.1.http://www.openoffice.org/security/bulletin.htmlMikeOpen_Office is FREEIf you run a Linux distro with Open_Office you are immune from 99.99% of this Windows silliness....So, Linux...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, OPEN SOURCE, PRODUCTIVITY, Cyberthreats, Linux, Sun Microsystems Inc., patch management

Discussion threads 2009-09-18

Private Contact 2.2 (Mac)

Private Contact is a native Cocoa software to manage on macintosh an address book with reserved data inside. In this way, informations inside documents, relative to various persons, can be read only by the Macintosh owner, and in case of unauthorized access or theft of the Mac, the...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Tension Software, Private Contact, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-09-15

The Linux botweb story that wasn't ...

One of the things that always confused me...If you can access the source code to Linux, then wouldn't it be possible to crack a password, and then alter the compromised system's source code to suit the hacker's needs?That doesn't seem to secure to me...The short answer is yes.But in reality...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Linux, source code, password, Apache Software Foundation, Microsoft IIS Server, security

Discussion threads 2009-09-14

EAV Antivirus Suite Free Edition 6.20 (Windows)

EAV Antivirus Suite can detect and eliminate spyware, Trojans, key loggers, adware programs, browser hijackers, cookies, spy bots, trackware, and other malware, even new and unknown ones, on your PC. EAV Antivirus Suite is able to block ARP attacks. EAV Antivirus Suite can recover all damages with Internet Explorer caused...

Tags: Adware, Trojan Horse, Microsoft Windows, EAV Software, EAV Antivirus Suite, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Cyberthreats, Security

Software downloads 2009-09-08

Twitter hacks gives L.A. cold feet over Google plan

Los Angeles is considering a multimillion-dollar plan to adopt Google's cloud services, but in the aftermath of a hacker accessing Twitter's internal docs based on weak passwords on Google Docs, some city leaders are getting cold feet, AP reports. Paul Weber, president of the Los Angeles Police...

Tags: Google Inc., Password, Twitter, Security, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-07-21

Twitter Security Crunch

There's an awful symmetry about the strategic plans of the Twitter team being published on TechCrunch today: using password discovery techniques 'Hacker Croll' was able to access Google and other accounts. I literally just saw on Twitter as I write this the 'ethical...

Tags: TechCrunch, Twitter, Security, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-07-16

Will Twitter sue TechCrunch over doc release?

TechCruch published sensitive internal docs obtained from Twitter in a ballsy moves that could very easily see the sites locked in prolonged legal battles. One of the docs dealt with internal user base and revenue projections. One revealed a pilot TV show based on the popular service....

Tags: TechCrunch, Twitter, Operational Accounting, Blogging, Finance, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-07-15

The Twitter hack: Let's not start blaming Google or the cloud

updated below: Have you been following this controversy surrounding some confidential documents swiped from Twitter and sent to the folks at TechCrunch? The site's editors have been engaging in a discussion over ethics, specifically whether or not to post these "stolen" documents. For...

Tags: Google Inc., Document, Password, Twitter, Security, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-07-15

SecureBackup 3.1.3468 (Windows)

Unlimited Online Backup: Don't lose your precious family photos, e-mail, or critical business data. Backup your music collection, videos, and other important documents with our fully automated and secure online backup solution. With SecureBackup, you don't need a flash drive, an external hard-drive, or a DVD burner to backup your...

Tags: Online Backup, Microsoft Windows, SecureBackup, SecureBackup Service, File Verification, Backups

Software downloads 2009-07-01

Guy Kawasaki's Twitter account compromised; used to deliver malware

ZDNet's own Ryan Naraine reports in his Zero Day security blog that Mac evangelist Guy Kawasaki's Twitter account was hijacked yesterday and was used in an attempt to distribute malware to his almost 140,000 followers. The attack screenshot above included a link to what purported...

Tags: Malware, Guy Kawasaki, Twitter, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Spyware, Desktops, Cyberthreats, Corporate Communications, Security, Viruses And Worms, Hardware, Marketing, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-06-24

SplashID Lite 4.6 (Mobile)

SplashID Lite will synchronize with the SplashID iPhone Desktop. SplashID Lite features unlimited customizable record types and categories, strong 256-bit Blowfish encryption, backup and wireless sync to your Mac or PC , automatic password generator to create hacker-proof passwords, and anti-phishing URL icons that deliver you to the correct address...

Tags: Password, Mobile, SplashData, Phishing, Security, Spam And Phishing

Software downloads 2009-06-09

Study: password resetting 'security questions' easily guessed

How secret are in fact the 'secret questions' used for resetting forgotten passwords? Not so secret after all, according to a just published study entitled "It's no secret: Measuring the security and reliability of authentication via 'secret' questions" according to which 17% of the study's participants were not only able...

Tags: Password, Security Question, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-05-19