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Down Economy Forces Companies to Cut Down on Cyber Security
Because of the struggling economy, many companies have been making cutbacks. But at the same time that cyber security concerns are rising, companies continue to cut IT funding. According to an...
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China Launches Cyber Attacks On U.S. Government
The U.S. is preparing a new report for the Congressional panel that shows evidence of China launching cyber attacks to steal U.S. government and industry secrets. Since these attacks are using a lot...
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Hackers Target ATM Company to Steal $9.5 Million In 12 Hours
In an elaborate plan to hack into ATMs worldwide, four hackers were able to accrue $9.5 million in cash in a matter of hours. The hackers, Sergei Tsurikov, 25, of Tallinn, Estonia; Viktor Pleshchuk,...
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Twitter Hacked By Iranian Cyber Army
At around 10 pm on Thursday, Twitter’s website was down, and the home page replaced with a page saying that it was hacked by the “Iranian Cyber Army”. They also left a message saying: Iranian Cyber...
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Russian Gangs Lose Crimeware Host, Threatens Money Making Operation
The Russian Internet host PROXIEZ-NET has been booted off the Internet despite claims that it was immune to being shut down. PROXIEZ-NET is a known crimeware, or malware, host that is used by gangs to...
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Internet Mafia and Cyber Extortionists Offers Businesses Discounts on Hacks
Based on an experiment done by researchers from VeriSign’s iDefense Intelligence Operations Team, they found that it would cost around $67 to rent a botnet or a DDoS attack for 24 hours, or $9 per...
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App Developer Hacks Into iTunes Users’s Accounts
What do you do when no one buys your apps? You hack into the customers’ accounts and buy it for them, of course, or at least that what the app developer, Thuat Nguyen did. Since not too many people...
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White House Sends Out Corrupt Christmas Card
Even the Executive Office of the President of the United States isn’t immune to hacking. A holiday e-mail sent out from the President late December proved to be carrying malware known as ZeuS, a...
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Arkansas Could Criminalize Cyberbullying
Bullying used to mean bigger, more aggressive kids picking on the timid or different. With social networking sites giving millions of young adults a new place to expose their identities, opinions,...
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New Internet Law Makes Everyone an Unintentional Criminal
Out of all the ridiculous laws passed in the Internet age, this one might be the most absurd. The law, which only applies to Tennessee at the moment, may have originated with the good intentions of...
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