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Hackers Target University of Maryland, 309,000 People Affected

20

Feb

2014

Wallace D. Loh, the president of the University of Maryland, has published a letter to reveal that the educational institutions systems have been breached by hackers. A database containing 309,079 records has been accessed. According to Loh, the records included names, social security numbers (SSNs), dates …

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University of Nebraska-Lincoln Hacker Pleads Guilty to One Fraud Count

06

Dec

2013

23-year-old Daniel Stratman, of Omaha, has pleaded guilty to one count of fraud in connection to computers after hacking into the systems of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and accessing the details of over 650,000 students, parents, alumni, employees and applicants. Stratman, a former student of the educational institution, was first charged with hacking back in […]

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Latest Pushdo Variants Challenge Antimalware Solution

25

Jun

2013

Command-and-control (C&C) server communication is essential for botnet creators to control zombie computers (or bots). To hide this from security researchers, they often use rootkits and other “tricks”. However, hiding the network traffic – specifically from monitoring outside an infected computer – is not an easy task, but is something that the botnet creators have […]

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