Hackers have stolen the login credentials for more than 8,300 customers of small New York bank after breaching its security and accessing a server that hosted its online banking system. The intrusion at Suffolk County National Bank happened over a six-day period that started on November 18, according to a release (PDF) issued Monday. It [...]

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The FBI is investigating a hacker attack on Citigroup Inc. that led to the theft of tens of millions of dollars, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. Citing anonymous government officials, the Journal reported that the hackers were connected to a Russian cyber gang. Two other computer systems, at least one of connected to a [...]

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Electrical blackouts impacting millions of people in Brazil in 2005 and 2007 were caused by hackers targeting control systems, according to the CBS news magazine 60 Minutes. In a show set to air Sunday night, CBS blames a two-day outage in Espirito Santo in 2007 on a hack attack. The blackout affected three million people. [...]

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As already mentioned in a previous posting I stumbled upon an old proxy server code that attracted my attention again. Driven by the same idea as at the first time, out of curiosity how the spammers and hackers do their  job and who else is using this anonymizing srvices I modified and installed the script [...]

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Malware propagation is one of the most fascinating parts of the attackers activities and is attracting, besides the anger of the affected people, the most attention. It is the part where all the magic of infection and intrusion happens, where attackers release the malicious software to the wild and try to infect new victim systems [...]

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