General Security
Vudu resets user passwords after hard drives lost in office burglary

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 […]

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

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Scribd Hack Exposes Thousands of Users

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 […]

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Hackers Compromise The War Z Forum, Game Databases

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 […]

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Spicing up phishing attacks

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 […]

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

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 […]

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Google rolls out initiative to help hacked sites

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 […]

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

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 […]

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

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 […]

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