Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) is used to hearing about problems with privacy and security issues, but a new scam, spotted in South Africa, may be the most dangerous yet. Hackers have taken to cloning Facebook profiles and attempting to coerce money from friends and family of the user whose profile has been copied. How Facebook Profiles Get Hacked In order to do this, hackers have developed programs for so called deep mining. That means they...
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This infographic portrays how the $45 million ATM heist happened, and how it could have been prevented. Worldwide ATM Cyberattack: The $45M Heist 'Get ValueWalk's Daily Edition By Email and Never Miss Our Top Stories'
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A cyber-attack from the web hosting firm CyberBunker slowed down the Internet for millions of users all over the world. The unprecedented attack was the result of spam-fighting group Spamhaus’ temporary addition of the firm to an email blacklist used by spam filters. CyberBunker offers services to any website that isn’t “child porn and anything related to terrorism.” That description of its services means that sometimes it ends up being linked to behavior that...
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In an email released by Evernote to its nearly 50 million customers on Sunday, the company made news by detailing an attack they had suffered and its insistence that all users reset their passwords. In the aftermath of this attack, the company has announced today that they will be joining Amazon Web Services, Dropbox, Facebook, Google and Gmail, LastPass, Microsoft SkyDrive and Xbox Live, PayPal, Yahoo Mail, along with numerous financial related web sites...
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The New York Times Company (NYSE:NYT) reported that some Chinese hackers have attacked the New York Times’ computer system repeatedly, ever since the newspaper published a detailed report about the Chinese premier. The hackers are believed to have connections with Chinese military. The New York Times Company (NYSE:NYT) covered a detailed report on Chinese prime minister, exposing enormous wealth accumulated by the family of premier Wen Jiabao. The newspaper sees the attack on its systems as...
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The White House confirmed that a cyberattack was launched to infiltrate one of the government’s most sensitive computer networks, but the attempt was prevented, and no harm has been done, according to a report from The Washington Free Beacon. According to the report, a White House official familiar with the incident said, the hacking incident occurred last month, and unidentified hackers allegedly used computer servers located in China. The hackers tried to access the...
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