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Hired gun blamed for business outage
Video-content firm Revision3 accuses anti-piracy company MediaDefender -- known for its aggressive tactics against file sharers -- of attacking its servers over the weekend. 2008-05-30 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11521 TJX employee fired for exposing shoddy security The retail giant, which acknowledged a major breach last year, fires a worker who made disturbing claims in an online forum about the security practices at the store where he worked. 2008-05-27 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11520 Legal experts wary of MySpace hacking charges Federal prosecutors charge the parent who allegedly badgered a girl to suicide with three counts of computer crime, but law experts worry about a dangerous precedent. 2008-05-16 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11519 Admins warned of brute-force SSH attacks Normally considered a low-level threat on the Internet, scans for default-configured secure shell servers spiked this week. 2008-05-14 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11518 Thoughts of a Teenage Bot Master High-school dropout and former bot master Sobe chats about his hacking and the federal investigation against him. 2008-05-09 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11517 Groups warn travelers to limit laptop data In a letter to Congress, nearly three dozen organizations protest the seizures of electronic devices by U.S. customs officials, an act upheld by a federal appeals court in a recent ruling. 2008-05-02 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11516 Radio Free Europe hit by DDoS attack The radio service's Web sites falls under fierce cyber attack after it covers a rally protesting the lack of compensation to Chernobyl victims and the decision to build more nuclear reactors. 2008-05-01 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11515 Patches pose significant risk, researchers say A group of four computer scientists say Windows Update -- and other patch services -- should be redesigned, after they create a technique to quickly produce attack code from a distributed patch. 2008-04-23 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11514 U.S. gov't pushes cybersecurity at con Top Bush Administration officials descend on the RSA Security Conference laying out their plans for protecting critical networks and giving a small taste of the latest national cyber exercise, Cyber Storm II. 2008-04-12 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11513 Flash vuln fells Vista A laptop running a fully patched version of Microsoft's Vista operating system becomes the second and final machine to fall in a hacking contest that pitted the security of Windows, OS X and Ubuntu Linux. 2008-03-30 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11512 |
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