A handful of AT&T customers were apparently targeted yesterday by a well-organized hacking attack that was ultimately unsuccessful, according to a company spokesperson. “We recently detected what could have been an organized attempt to obtain information on a number of customer accounts,” AT&T spokesman Mark Siegel told FoxNews.com. “The people in question appear to have [...]
Next time you’re at a restaurant and hand your credit card to the waiter, you might want to keep an eye on them. Over two dozen waiters from some of New York’s top steakhouses have been busted in an alleged identity theft ring. The workers are accused of stealing credit card numbers from wealthy patrons, [...]
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I hate to break it to you, but if you’re actually using “123456″ as your password, you deserve to get hacked. Know what’s even worse? Using the word “password”. SplashData has compiled its annual list of the worst passwords on the internet and, as you might expect, things like “qwerty” and “qazwsx” have definitely made [...]
It seems like Facebook finds itself embroiled in some kind of controversy regarding user tracking and/or privacy just about every other month lately, so it should come as no surprise that the social networking giant is once again under the microscope. Facebook officials are now acknowledging that the service has been able to create a [...]
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If you’re a Facebook junkie, odds are pretty good that you’ve spotted some pretty nasty stuff on the popular social networking site over the last day or two. Porn, violent images, and other graphic content has been showing up on Facebook as part of a widespread spam attack. Graham Cluley, a consultant with internet security [...]
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Mozilla is sticking to its “rapid release” schedule with regard to its Firefox web browser. The latest version, Firefox 8, was made available for download yesterday. This latest version features integrated Twitter search, improved graphical capability, and more control over third party add-ons. “Sometimes you download third-party software and are surprised to discover that an [...]
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You’d like to think that when it comes to our nation’s security, America has got its computer system pretty tightly locked down. Turns out that may not be the case. According to Wired, a computer virus has infected the cockpits of America’s fleet of Predator and Reaper drones, logging the keystrokes of our pilots as [...]
There’s a huge security hole in the American voting system, and one can only imagine how many times it’s already been exploited by those with nefarious intent. Researchers from the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois have developed a hack that, for just over $20 and an 8th-grade science education, can remotely manipulate electronic voting machines. [...]
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It’s official. Heidi Klum is the most dangerous female celebrity on the web, at least when it comes to malware attacks. Web security company McAfee has just released its annual list of this year’s “Most Dangerous Celebrities” online, and Klum tops the list of female celebrities. The list is based on the likelihood that spammers [...]
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As Americans, we always seem to get extra jumpy every year when 9/11 rolls around, and this year was no exception…especially given that this year marked the tenth anniversary of the worst terrorist attacks to ever take place on American soil. So what happened to Arab-Jewish blogger Shoshana Hebshi should come as no surprise, and yet [...]
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What is it about a baseball game that makes people want to run out onto the field? Maybe it’s the fact that the game moves so slooooooowly. This guy decides to storm the field during a Mets game. He actually manages to outrun security for several minutes before finally getting caught. Is it just me, [...]
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation today raided three New York-area homes where agents believed three members of the online hacker group known as “Anonymous” were living. Investigators took at least one laptop from one of the residences. Police think the device may have been used in denial-of-service attacks against several large corporations. Almost a dozen [...]
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