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Hacker Disables More Than 100 Cars Remotely  18 March 2010 
Source: Wired - Posted by Alex   
Great article by Kevin Poulsen. More than 100 drivers in Austin, Texas found their cars disabled or the horns honking out of control, after an intruder ran amok in a web-based vehicle-immobilization system normally used to get the attention of consumers delinquent in their auto payments.

 
Flawed Security Exposes Vital Software to Hackers  11 March 2010 
Source: NY Times - Posted by anthony   
McAfee, a leading maker of Internet security software, warned this week that software systems used by many companies to store and manage their intellectual property are being actively targeted by hackers and are in need of significantly increased security focus.
 
Estonian DDoS revenge worm crafter jailed  11 March 2010 
Source: The Register UK - Posted by Alex   
An Estonian virus writer has been jailed for two and a half years for creating a Windows worm family that launched denial of service attacks on the websites of a local insurance firm and ISP.
 
Hackers aren't as sneaky as you think  10 March 2010 
Source: InfoWorld - Posted by Alex   
Two weeks ago, I essentially claimed that nearly every company I know is hacked -- and in many cases, thoroughly hacked. Although there's a bit of hyperbole in that statement, it isn't that far from reality. That statement, however, has led some readers to believe detecting hackers and preventing attacks is impossible. Nothing could be further from the truth.
 
FDIC: Hackers took more than $120M in three months  09 March 2010 
Source: Network World - Posted by anthony   
Ongoing computer scams targeting small businesses cost U.S. companies US$25 million in the third quarter of 2009, according to the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Online banking fraud involving the electronic transfer of funds has been on the rise since 2007 and rose to over US$120 million in the third quarter of 2009, according to estimates presented Friday at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, by David Nelson, an examination specialist with the FDIC.
 
Researchers find way to zap RSA security scheme  04 March 2010 
Source: Network World - Posted by Alex   
Three University of Michigan computer scientists say they have found a way to exploit a weakness in RSA security technology used to protect everything from media players to smartphones and e-commerce servers.
 
Google hackers stole source code, researchers  04 March 2010 
Source: Tech World - Posted by Alex   
Companies should take extra steps to secure their source code from the type of targeted attacks that hit Google, Adobe, Intel and others over the past few months. That's according to security vendor McAfee, which released a report detailing the way software source code was accessed in some of these attacks.
 
IBM: Vulnerabilities Fell in 2009, but Other Risks Abound  01 March 2010 
Source: PC World - Posted by anthony   
The number of software vulnerabilities fell overall in 2009, but the number of bugs in document readers and multimedia applications increased by 50 percent, according to IBM's annual X-Force Trend and Risk Report.
 
SQL Injections Top Attack Statistics  23 February 2010 
Source: Dark Reading - Posted by anthony   
SQL injections top plenty of lists as the most prevalent means of attacking front-end Web applications and back-end databases to compromise data. According to recent published reports, analysis of the Web Hacking Incidents Database (WHID) shows SQL injections as the top attack vector, making up 19 percent of all security breaches examined by WHID.
 
Attack code for Firefox zero-day goes wild, says researcher  19 February 2010 
Source: The Register UK - Posted by Alex   
A Russian security researcher on Thursday said he has released attack code that exploits a critical vulnerability in the latest version of Mozilla's Firefox browser.
 
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