As the fallout of the Hacking Team breach (see post) continues, the Mozilla Foundation is taking the bull by the horns. Right now there are at least two Flash zero day vulnerabilities that Adobe has not patched. As people continue to go through the Hacking Team data dump, we may find more. As a result, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Computer hackers likely working for the Syrian regime and Hezbollah have managed to penetrate the computers of Israeli and American activists working with the Syrian opposition, exposing sensitive contacts between the sides. Al-Akhbar, a newspaper serving as Hezbollah’s mouthpiece in Lebanon, published a series of articles over the weekend purporting to divulge correspondence between Mendi […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Researchers at FireEye have uncovered another zero day Flash exploit from within the ruins of the Hacking Team data dump. Adobe says that they will patch it some time this week. Adobe also says that the flaw could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. Like the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hacking Team, an Italian company that sells hacking tools to the FBI and DEA, as well as less friendly governments such as Sudan, was hacked this week. The hackers stole about 400 gigabytes of internal emails, financial documents, source code and other goodies. The hackers quickly published the data that was hacked, presumably to embarrass […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As companies like Target and Home Depot begin to clean up their credit card protecting acts, the cyber thieves are moving on to a different class of victim. This week, Service Systems Associates acknowledged that they had been hacked and as a result, some of their clients systems were compromised. How this works is this: […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE: OPM said that 3.6 million of the 4.2 million people affected by the first breach were also in the casualty count of the second breach, so the total should be around 22 million instead of 25 million. However, they added 1.8 million fingerprints to the mix. OPM said that notifications for the second breach […]
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