Saturday | 4 July, 2009
Stories by: Robert McMillan
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Blind phone hacker gets 11-year sentence 30/06/2009 08:24:00
A blind Boston-area teenager was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison Friday for hacking into the telephone network and harassing the Verizon investigator who was building a case against him. - +
Reporters find Northrop Grumman data in Ghana market 25/06/2009 06:42:00
A team of journalists investigating the global electronic waste business has unearthed a security problem too. In a Ghana market, they bought a computer hard drive containing sensitive documents belonging to U.S. government contractor Northrop Grumman. - +
High profile Twitter hack spreads porn Trojan 24/06/2009 10:34:00
Former Apple Macintosh evangelist Guy Kawasaki posts Twitter messages about a lot of different things, but the message he put up on Tuesday afternoon was really out of character. - +
Spammers cashing in on Twitter, Iran, new iPhone 19/06/2009 08:37:00
Spammers are never far from a hot story, it seems, and in the past day they've been flooding Twitter with phoney messages about Iran and the latest iPhone 3.0 operating system. - +
Microsoft update removes rogue antivirus program 10/06/2009 04:12:00
Microsoft has taken aim at a rogue antivirus program called Internet Antivirus Pro. - +
90 percent of e-mail is spam, Symantec says 27/05/2009 07:38:00
Spammers seem to be working a little bit harder these days, according to Symantec, which reported Tuesday that unsolicited e-mail made up 90.4 percent of messages on corporate networks last month. - +
Twitter hit with phishing attacks 22/05/2009 09:31:00
Twitter users who thought friends were directing them to a "funny blog" Thursday ended up experiencing something completely different: a phishing scam. - +
Angered by Apple delay, hacker posts Mac Java attack 21/05/2009 04:46:00
In an effort to draw attention to an long-standing security problem in Apple's Mac OS X operating system, a security researcher has posted attack code that exploits the flaw. - +
Conficker still infecting 50,000 PCs per day 21/05/2009 10:07:00
The Conficker worm is still infecting systems at a brisk rate and continues to snag computers in Fortune 1000 companies, according to security researchers. - +
Web attack that poisons Google results gets worse 19/05/2009 10:53:00
A new attack that peppers Google search results with malicious links is spreading quickly, the U.S. Computer Emergence Response Team warned on Monday. - +
IIS 6 attack could let hackers snoop on servers 19/05/2009 07:01:00
Security vendors are warning users of Microsoft's Internet Information Services 6 Web-server software that a new online attack could put their data at risk.
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