Microsoft YouTube Channel Hijacked
Microsoft joined Sesame Street as the latest high profile organization to have its official Youtube channel hacked and hijacked, according to a report from GeekWire.
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“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
Shocker: Scammers Exploit Death of Former Libyan Ruler
In one of the least surprising computer security news events of 2011, the death of longtime Libyan leader, and self-proclaimed “African King of Kings” Colonel Muammar Qaddafi spawned a slew of online scams.
Drive By Download Sites Using New Tricks To Avoid Detection
Amid an increase in defacements of legitimate websites over the past few weeks, Fraser Howard, a researcher from Sophos, has discovered that the groups behind the attacks are increasingly using sophisticated filtering and dynamic content to avoid detection by search engines and web filtering firms.
Google is moving to make queries and results from the company’s immensely popular search engine encrypted by default in the coming weeks, but only for users signed into their Google Accounts.
The Obama Administration reportedly debated kicking off its latest war-effort in Libya with a cyber-offensive targeting the Qaddafi regime’s air-defense infrastructure, according to a report from the New York Times.
Cyber criminals are relying more than ever on mules to move fenced goods from the U.S. to foreign markets for resale, according to a report on krebsonsecurity.com.
A 35 year-old Florida man is facing a lengthy prison term after being arrested in connection with high profile hacks of the Web-based email accounts of more than 50 celebrities, including Hollywood ingenue Scarlett Johansson.
Apple released OS X Lion v10.7.2 yesterday along with an absolutely enormous security update that patches some 80 bugs in the various iterations of Apple’s operating system. One of the patches fixes a highly critical vulnerability that enables an attacker to run code on a remote machine with a simple exploit.
Sony locked the accounts of some 93,000 individuals on the Playstation Network (PSN), the Sony Entertainment Network (SEN), and Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) services following a mass log-in attempt using username-password combinations obtained from an unnamed source.
The German government acknowledged on Tuesday that a trojan horse program used to perform lawful intercept is capable of far more than it was said to be. The confirmation comes after an analysis by hacking group The Chaos Computer Club (CCC) which alleged that the program may be in breach of the law.
