NASA Site Attacks Reported
Defacements of NASA, government, military, and UC Berkeley websites have all taken place in the past week, prompted by the current Israel/Hezbollah conflict in Lebanon. Directory:
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Date: 2006-07-31
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Zango Affiliate Still Luring MySpace Users
An affiliate who had been posting Zango content on MySpace against both companies' terms of service has switched to using a new domain, despite Zango's public claims that such activity would result in the termination of the affiliate account. Directory:
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Date: 2006-07-27
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Lots Of Spam For Stock Pumping Scams
About 15 percent of junk email infesting inboxes around the world contain "pump and dump" scams intended to inflate a stock price quickly and allow the spammers a profitable return on their shares. Directory:
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Date: 2006-07-25
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MySpace Flash Attack Corrupts Profiles
A Flash-based attack embedded into a MySpace profile will redirect the visitor to a blog post on 9/11 conspiracy theories while the exploit embeds itself into the MySpace profile of the user who just visited the infected profile. Directory:
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Date: 2006-07-17
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Skype Cracked In China
Reports have begun to circulate that a team of Chinese engineers has been able to reverse engineer the Skype protocol, which now makes people wonder what eBay got for its $2.6 billion. Directory:
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Date: 2006-07-14
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Microsoft Patches Remote Execution Flaws
All but one of the seven fixes in July's version of Microsoft's 'Patch Tuesday' updates closes a remote code execution vulnerability; the seventh fixes a hole that could allow access to information that in turn could be used to attack a system. Directory:
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Date: 2006-07-12
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Netsky, Mytob Still A Threat
The figures for the first six months of 2006 as collected by the Sophos security firm show variants of the Netsky and Mytob worms continue to make the rounds of the Internet. Directory:
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Date: 2006-07-10
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