Hacked facebook and paypal logins

Australians are being advised by the government to change and vary their passwords after miscreants began using the logins of thousands of people leaked on to the web to break into Facebook and PayPal accounts. One claims to have bought a packet of condoms “for an elderly woman” using the online store Amazon. The LulzSec [...]

26,000 sex website passwords exposed by LulzSec

The notorious LulzSec hacking group has published login passwords for almost 26,000 users of an x-rated porn website. The hackers compromised the database of the hardcore website (called “Pron”), exposing not only the email addresses and passwords of over 25,000 members but also the credentials of 55 administrators of other adult websites. Furthermore, LulzSec drew [...]

Adobe issues fix for Flash hole being used in attacks

Adobe has released an emergency fix for a bug in Flash Player that is being used to try to trick Gmail users into clicking on a malicious link in an e-mail message in order to hijack accounts, an Adobe spokeswoman said today. “The user receives an email and is tricked into clicking on a malicious [...]

Google ‘disrupts’ Gmail phishing scheme in China

Google ‘disrupts’ Gmail phishing scheme in China by Josh Lowensohn PrintE-mail.Share14 comments Google today said that it’s “detected and disrupted” a plan to gain access to hundreds of Gmail accounts through phishing attacks. That effort, which Google says originated in Jinan, China, targeted user account credentials so that attackers could gain access to personal information [...]

Security researcher finds ‘cookiejacking’ risk in IE

A security researcher in Italy has discovered a flaw in Internet Explorer that he says could enable hackers to steal cookies from a PC and then log onto password-protected Web sites. Referring to the exploit as “cookiejacking,” Rosario Valotta claims that a zero-day vulnerability found in every version of Microsoft’s IE under any version of [...]

Facebook caught exposing millions of user credentials

Facebook has leaked access to millions of users’ photographs, profiles and other personal information because of a years-old bug that overrides individual privacy settings, researchers from Symantec said. The flaw, which the researchers estimate has affected hundreds of thousands of applications, exposed user access tokens to advertisers and others. The tokens serve as a spare [...]

Computer experts warn of Osama bin Laden malware scams

COMPUTER security experts have warned that online scammers have already started to exploit the death of al-Qa’ida leader Osama bin Laden to spread malware. “Watch out for the links you’re likely to come across in email or on social networking sites offering you additional coverage of this newsworthy event,” Paul Ducklin of computer security firm [...]

Microsoft Security Essentials struggles in new antivirus tests

Microsoft’s popular free antivirus program Security Essentials has put in a mediocre showing in the latest quarterly tests from German test outfit AV-Test.org, finishing second bottom out of 22 products. In Q1 2011 Security Essentials 2.0 (MSE) performed well at the least demanding test, that of spotting malware drawn from the industry-agreed Wildlist selection, scoring [...]

Sony says 25 million more accounts hacked

Sony says that hackers may have taken personal information from an additional 24.6 million user accounts after a review of the recent PlayStation Network breach found an intrusion at a division that makes multiplayer online games The data breach comes on top of the 77 million PlayStation accounts it has already said were jeopardised by [...]

iPhone in privacy crosshairs

Apple’s iPhone took center stage this week for its role in helping the company and its partner carriers attain strong quarterly earnings, but it was also the target of criticism for keeping a log of its users’ whereabouts, and is the focus of a new round of patent suits with Samsung. Privacy concerns surfaced earlier [...]

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