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Vudu resets user passwords after hard drives lost in office burglary

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An posting from Cnet news: Video service Vudu began warning users today that it has instituted a systemwide password reset following an office break-in last month.

A burglary March 24 resulted in the loss of hard drives that contained users’ sensitive personal information, including names, e-mail addresses, postal addresses, phone numbers, account activity, dates of birth, and the last four digits of some credit card numbers, Vudu Chief Technology Officer Prasanna Ganesan informed customers in an e-mail. He said no complete credit card numbers were stolen because the company does not store that information.

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A Famous document sharing website Scribd is the Latest Victim of Hack Attack

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An interesting article from our partner at hackersnewsbullentin.com on Scribd being the latest victim of an attack:

The world-famous document sharing website Scribd is the Latest victim of hacking and announced that they were hacked , Scribd says that they discovered and blocked suspicious activity on Scribd’s network that appears to have been a deliberate attempt to access the email addresses and passwords of registered Scribd users

As Scribd 1% of our users were potentially compromised by this attack.
They have emailed every user whose password was compromised with the details of the situation and instruction for how they can reset the password.
For those users who did not receive the mail they are safe and if you want to check either you are hacked or not so you can check by below web tool:
No content, payment and sales-related data, or other information were accessed or compromised their Investigation Team said.
Data which has been compromised is:
  • Usernames
  • Emails
  • Encrypted passwords

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Scribd Hack Exposes Thousands of Users

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An posting from Tech News about Scribd Hack Exposes Thousands of Users:

It’s much easier to spend your Internet time watching funny cat videos than to actually do something productive, but the educational stuff is out there. Take Scribd, for instance: a virtual library of free content that ranges from book previews to science journal articles to official government documents. If you’re one of the estimated 50 million Scribd users, life isn’t all highbrow art magazines and travelogues, though. A recent hack has resulted in a few hundred thousand stolen passwords.

Scribd does not reveal exactly what kind of hack took place, but the malefactors made off with part of a password database. But if you’re worried that you’ve been hacked, don’t be: There’s a 99 percent chance you haven’t. “Because of the way Scribd securely stores passwords, we believe that the passwords of less than 1 percent of our users were potentially compromised by this

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Hackers Compromise The War Z Forum, Game Databases

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An posting from ThreatPost  about Hackers Compromise The War Z Forum, Game Databases:

Hackers compromised the forum and game database of the massively multiplayer online game, The War Z, forcing the game’s producer OP Productions to temporarily take the game and its forum offline.

In a security alert issued yesterday, OP Productions informed The War Z players of the breach and subsequent game and forum downtime. According to the alert, hackers accessed and may have exposed the players’ email addresses and encrypted passwords used to login to the game and forum, in-game character names, any information posted on the forum, and the IP addresses for machines that logged into the forum and the game.

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Spicing up phishing attacks

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An posting form Nakcd Secutiy  on phishing Attacks: Phishing is often regarded as old hat. From a technical perspective, it’s a case of ‘been there, done that’.

Sometimes however, we come across attacks that are just a little bit more interesting (or at least different) from the norm. In this post I am going to take a quick look at one of the techniques used in some phishing attacks we have seen in recent months.

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A DHL delivery which is nothing but malware – Windows users warned of email attack

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An article from Dark reading: Just earlier this week, I warned about a malware attack that had been widely spammed out posing as a message from DHL Express International.

The trick, which is an old one, goes like this.

Cybercriminals spam out an email, with forged header information, tricking you into believing that it is from a shipping company like DHL or FedEx.

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Google rolls out initiative to help hacked sites

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An posting about how google going to find away to help hack  site from  New sCnet: It’s not pretty when a Web site gets a “this site may be compromised” or “this site may harm your computer” status note. Many webmasters and Web site owners can be at a loss of what to do in these situations.

For this reason, Google has launched “Help for Hacked Sites” informational series, which has a dozen articles and videos aimed to help people avoid having their sites hacked and also teach them how to gain back control of compromised sites.

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‘Kali Linux’ or ‘BackTrack 6’ has been released with more than 300 penetration testing tools, completely free

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Great news ‘Kali Linux’ or ‘Backrack 6” has been released with more than 300 penetration testing tools, completely free

It has been 7 years since the release of the first version of BackTrack Linux, with a fresh start from the earlier versions, the developers have decided to use new technologies and processes as well as changing the base operating systems from Ubuntu to Debian.

The default root username and password is same “root”/“toor“.  Kali Linux can be downloaded here.

The creators thought they would change the name from BackTrack because with all the significant changes in their distribution, they felt that it needed to convey this in the project name. They felt “BackTrack 6″ didn’t do justice to the efforts of the past year, and wouldn’t convey the new message to our users.

Hackers claim to expose info of first lady, including other officials and celebs

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The FBI is investigating a hacking incident that may have exposed the financial information and other private data of several high-sitting government officials, politicians and celebrities.

On Monday, hackers claimed to have posted the personal information of first lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, FBI Director Robert Mueller, and other officials on a website registered under a Soviet Union domain. Some celebrities potentially impacted include Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Donald Trump and Britney Spears.

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