The breach was first noted on March 31, when Epsilon, a marketing firm whose services include permission-based email marketing and database hosting, began notifying its customers of potential data exposure thanks to an unauthorized entry into Epsilon’s email system. According to Epsilon, the information compromised was “limited to email addresses and/or customer names only,”...
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Hundreds of thousands of websites appear to have been compromised by a massive cyber attack. The hi-tech criminals used a well-known attack vector that exploits security loopholes on other sites to insert a link to their website. Those visiting the criminals’ webpage were told that their machines were infected with many different viruses. Swift...
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The sudden drop in activity of a major spam producer was the result of a larges co-ordinated attack on spammers, it has emerged. At 15:30 GMT on 16 March, a network of spam-producing computers, known as Rustock, suddenly stopped. Raids on the network’s infrastructure were triggered by a long-running investigation by Microsoft. During raids,...
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Apple on Tuesday shipped a Java security update to Leopard and Snow Leopard users that patched a total of 27 vulnerabilities in the Oracle software. Apple said that some of the bugs could be exploited to execute attack code outside the Java sandbox, which would make it possible for hackers hijack a vulnerable Mac....
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By some accounts Google’s Android Market is uploading as many as a thousand new apps per day. That speaks well to the app market’s growing popularity but, as with any popular site these days it seems, it’s also made Android Market a target of malicious hackers spreading malware that could compromise a user’s security...
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