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Malware:The importance of a clean machine

Keeping your computer clean of malware is important for several reasons. First and foremost, malware programs are a security risk. One can never be certain what information these programs are collecting about you from your computer. They potentially could have your name, physical address, e-mail address, credit card number, web site history, passwords, and any other information you have on your PC....

Facebook’s Farm Town scareware attack

IT security and data protection firm Sophos is warning players of the popularFacebook game “Farm Town” to scan their computers after it was revealed that the site has been delivering adverts laced with malware. According to a statement on the website of “Farm Town” developers SlashKey, third-party adverts appearing alongside the game’s window are putting users at risk...

Facebook founder hacked into emails of rivals and journalists

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has been accused of hacking into the email accounts of rivals and journalists. The CEO of the world’s most successful social networking website was accused of at least two breaches of privacy in a series of articles run by BusinessInsider.com. As part of a two-year investigation detailing the founding of Facebook, the magazine uncovered what it claimed was evidence...

Former IT worker arrested for “hacking” hospital network

The New York Post reported Tuesday that a former IT worker from a Manhattan hospital was arrested last Friday and charged with computer trespass, unauthorized use of a computer, and fourth-degree computer tampering. According to the article, Jason Wang “wreaked havoc with the computer system at North General Hospital in Harlem after he was fired by official there in September 2009…” The report...

Phishing Scam In Firefox

The team behind the Firefox browser has caution users about a new kind of phishing attack. The new phishing attack restore an inactive browser tab on the Firefox browser with a hateful phishing page designed to steal user names and passwords for e-mail and bank accounts from innocent users. Firefox creative team leader, Aza Raskin, said that the attack, which only affects the latest version of...

A glitch in AT&T’s Web site has exposed the e-mail addresses

A glitch in AT&T’s Web site has exposed the e-mail addresses of more than 100,000 iPad buyers. The data was downloaded by a hacking group known as Goatse Security, which obtained the information after stumbling upon a program on AT&T’s Web site that would send back the iPad user’s e-mail address when given a unique SIM card identification number known as an ICC-ID (Integrated Circuit...

Security Guard Pleads Guilty to Hacking employer’s computers.

A former security guard has pleaded guilty to charges that he broke into his employer’s computers while working the night shift at a Dallas hospital. Jesse William McGraw pleaded guilty Friday to two counts of transmitting malicious code, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) said in a statement. The 25-year-old hacker wasn’t hard to catch; he posted videos of his misadventures to YouTube....

Google bans the use of Windows based computers

Citing hacking vulnerabilities, Google has announced that the company will no longer use Windows-based computers. All incoming employees get two choices instead: Macs with OS X or PCs running Linux. That’s some pretty rough news for Microsoft, no doubt. Google accounts for 10,000 folks all the world over, and none of them will be using Windows at work anymore. The purge has been ongoing since...

US Treasury web sites hacked using iFrame

Roger Thompson, chief research officer at security firm AVG, told V3.co.uk that it is extremely uncommon for federal government sites to be hacked. “City and country level sites get hacked all the time in the US and the UK, but it is very unusual to see an attack like this,” he said. The affected sites, which have now been taken down, are bep.gov, bep.treas.gov and moneyfactory.gov. The...

Zero-day flaw affecting Windows XP, 2003

A Google security engineer has identified a zero-day flaw affecting Windows XP, 2003 and possibly other Windows systems. Tavis Ormandy found the flaw in a component of the Windows Help and Support Center which is accessed via the ‘hcp://’ protocol handler. A correct exploitation could give an attacker complete user access to any PC running the vulnerable operating system. “At least...