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An unknown hacker posted the lists online and asked for help in cracking them. by Dan Goodin A partial list of the 6.5 million passwords leaked by someone identified as dwdm. The list contains strong passwords that were unique to LinkedIn, leading to speculation that’s were the passwords originated. Dan Goodin, Ars Technica An unknown […]

True, sometimes the big discoveries are the daughters of the case. That’s what happened to Panos Ipeirotis, a researcher of the New York University, he has discovered a new technique of attack on his Amazon web service using Google Spreadsheets. The methods of attack is a DDoS type and the researcher has named it as

lame Malware Spread Via Rogue Microsoft Security Certificates Microsoft released an emergency Windows update on Sunday after revealing that one of its trusted digital signatures was being abused to certify the validity of the Flame malware that has infected computers in Iran and other Middle Eastern Countries.   The patch revoked three intermediate Microsoft certificates

By Erika MorphyTechNewsWorld It appears the U.S. may have had a considerable hand in the creation of the Stuxnet worm designed to thwart Iran’s nuclear ambitions. One of the concerns surrounding such cyberwarfare strategies, though, is containment. “The challenge of control increases over time, because so many malware variables are constantly changing and are outside

Internet Explorer 10 will ship with Do Not Track settings turned on by default. That’s good news for you and me; not so good for the online ad industry. By Dan Tynan, ITworld Break out the champagne and put on your party hats: A software heavyweight just struck a major blow for the concept of

The Deep Web (or Invisible web) is the set of information resources on the World Wide Web not reported by normal search engines. According several researches the principal search engines index only a small portion of the overall web content, the remaining part is unknown to the majority of web users. What do you think if

A new plug-and-play device for factories and power plants could stop malicious code from triggering a major malfunction, or worse. by Eric Mack    Norway’s Norman says it has a simple solution to prevent big problems. (Credit: Screenshot by Eric Mack/CNET) Let me introduce you to Norm. “Norm!” No, not George Wendt. Norman is an

The FBI Cyber Division has sent a warning to some of the world’s top corporations about a coordinated campaign of denial of service attacks and hacking, scheduled for Friday, May 25.Apple Computer, McDonald’s, ExxonMobil, Hewlett-Packard, Bank of China and Walmart are among the firms singled out for attacks as part of “Operation NewSon,” which will