Posts Tagged ‘networking users’

Is Al Gore asking permission to spam from your social networking account?

Sep

2011

Is this spam or not? I’m finding it hard to decide. But there’s certainly something about it which makes me feel uncomfortable with my security hat on. Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project is encouraging social networking users to “donate” their online accounts for what they call “24 hours of Reality”. During that time, the organisation […]

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Epson Korea hack impacts 350,000 customers

Aug

2011

Epson Korea has been hit by a massive data breach, involving the personal information of 350,000 registered customers. Hackers broke into Epson Korea’s computer systems, and stole information including passwords, phone numbers, names, and email addresses of customers who had registered with the company. A warning message was posted to the Epson Korea website, and […]

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Shady RAT: The biggest ever cyber-attack?

Aug

2011

The media are in a frenzy today, excitedly reporting the “biggest ever cyber-attack”. The reason? A report published today by McAfee called “Revealed: Operation Shady RAT”, explains that the security firm stumbled across logs on a server used by hackers, and ascertained that organisations and governments around the world had been targeted by malware that […]

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