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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.
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Date: 2006-07-31
 
Phishers Love eBay And PayPal
An astonishing 75 percent of all emails that attempt to phish information from victims targeted users of eBay and its PayPal payment processing division.
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Date: 2006-07-28
 
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.
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Date: 2006-07-27
 
Tougher Crypto Seen In Ransomware
Early attempts to extort money from people victimized by viruses that cannot be defeated without a key have grown in sophistication, with tougher encryption being employed.
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Date: 2006-07-26
 
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.
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Date: 2006-07-25
 
Hacker Conference Interrupted By Arrest
The FBI executed an arrest warrant at a New York City hotel, where the Hackers on Planet Earth conference was taking place, and led off one man before his scheduled presentation began.
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Date: 2006-07-24
 
EFF Lawsuit Against AT&T Can Continue
US District Court Judge Vaughn Walker refused to dismiss the case despite the federal government moving to do so under state secrets privilege.
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Date: 2006-07-21
 
Bank Attacks Grow In Sophistication
Many attacks that attempt to use SQL injection have been targeting an array of banks and credit unions in an increasing number of attacks each day.
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Date: 2006-07-20
 
Google Earth Probing North Korea Military
Naval vessels and military installations in North Korea have been chronicled by Google Earth, and its community of users has been combing over and identifying the various images picked up by the program.
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Date: 2006-07-19
 
Vishing – VoIP Scams On The Rise
We have a new buzzword to remember as criminals use Voice over Internet Protocol to scam people by telephone out of credit card numbers and other information.
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Date: 2006-07-18
 
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.
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Date: 2006-07-17
 
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: > Insider Reports > Insider
Date: 2006-07-14
 
Zango Admits To Placing MySpace Profiles
The company has blamed one of its developers for creating two profiles on networking site MySpace that served to distribute Zango's adware products.
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Date: 2006-07-13
 
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.
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Date: 2006-07-12
 
FBI Warns Online Job Seekers
The Internet has made it much easier to find job opportunities, but it has also created opportunities for criminals as well.
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Date: 2006-07-11
 
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: > Insider Reports > Insider
Date: 2006-07-10
 
Microsoft Plans Seven Patches For July
Patch Tuesday arrives next week, and Microsoft will provide a total of seven updates for the Windows operating system and the Office productivity suite.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Insider
Date: 2006-07-07
 
Google Makes Its Sanity Check
The search engine's personalized homepage service had been vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks due to a failure to sanitize query strings.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Insider
Date: 2006-07-06
 
Robber Using Craigslist To Meet Victims
A criminal described as a serial robber has been drawing victims to him by using ads on Craigslist to entice them into meetings.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Insider
Date: 2006-07-05
 


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