Target has been Targeted…
Update: As is now appears, 40 million accounts have been compromised. The Secret Service is investigating a possible data breach around the time of Black Friday that involves Target stores. It appears that the breach mainly targeted customers that actually…
NSA infiltrating World of Warcraft, Second Life and other MMO’s
It was recently released that the NSA has infiltrated popular MMO’s, such as World of Warcraft, Second Life, and others in an attempt to catch terrorists. Secret briefings from 2007 and 2008 show agents expressing great enthusiasm for video games…
Social Media Hacked Again…
Once again I find myself hashing out the same information about social media sites being hacked and user accounts being released into the wild. This time 2 million accounts are compromised and their details are posted online. The list breaks…
D-Link Routers (Firmware Update)
In October a security researcher discovered a backdoor vulnerability with certain D-Link routers. This vulnerability (CVE-2013-6027) [setting the browsers user agent string to “xmlset_roodkcable0j28840ybtide”] allows cyber criminals to alter a router setting without having a username or password. D-Link has…
Careful what you click…
Over 10,000 people have been hit by Cryptolocker in the last week. To refresh your memory, CryptoLocker is a Trojan that encrypts documents on victims’ computers and holds them ransom for $300. If you don’t cough up the money, CryptoLocker…
New Look, Simple Design, Easy to Navigate…
After a few years of looking at the same thing it was time for a change. Not only is it time for a change in regards to appearance, it is also a time to change CMS. Large far reaching changes…
More Accounts Compromised – Linkedin and eHarmony.
Hackers crack more than 60% of breached LinkedIn passwords. More than 60 percent of the unique hashed passwords accessed by hackers from a LinkedIn password database and posted online the week of June 4 were already cracked, according to security…
Microsoft ‘hardens’ Windows Update from Flame penetration.
Microsoft “hardened” its Windows Update system after researchers discovered the Flame virus can infect PCs by offering itself as an update masquerading as official Microsoft software. The worm infected computers in the Middle East and beyond for up to 2…
Conficker: Down but not out.
Conficker camouflages new Windows infections. Windows PCs infected with Conficker are more likely to be compromised by other malware because the worm masks secondary infections and makes those machines easier to exploit, a security expert found. That is the biggest…
Incessant Blackhole spam runs likely made by same group
An incessant string of spam e-mail campaigns leading to Web sites hosting the Blackhole exploit kit are hitting inboxes around the world in waves. The latest and most prominent ones consisted of the fake Facebook, LinkedIn, U.S. Postal Service, and…