by Mark Rockwell Almost 100,000 computers in the U.S. are vulnerable to a malicious software program that could knock them offline if they don’t take steps before July to stave it off, warned a Department of Homeland Security Cyber protection official.  In a note on the DHS Web Blog on May 8,

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by Aliya Sternstein A vague FBI warning about bad actors infecting U.S. computers in foreign hotels is raising questions about whether authorities are withholding information to avoid rattling relations with a foreign country, possibly China. The bureau’s Internet Crime Complaint Center on May 8 issued an alert about pop-up messages “targeting travelers

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 by Catherine Solyom Christopher Doyon, a.k.a. Commander X, sits atop a hill-side in an undisclosed location in Canada, watching a reporter and photographer make their way along a narrow path to join him, far from the prying eyes of law enforcement. It's been a few weeks of encrypted emails back and forth,

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Three of the most popular brands of closed-circuit surveillance cameras are sold with remote Internet access enabled by default, and with weak password security — a classic recipe for security failure that could allow hackers to remotely tap into the video feeds, according to new research. The cameras, used by banks, retailers,

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Security researchers warn that Twitter is being flooded with shady-looking posts that contain links to Web sites hosted on .tk domains. These sites hide malicious elements that target not only PC users, but also Android owners. GFI Labs experts report that while PC users are served broken .jar files, Android customers are

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Unknown attackers breached the Web site of the popular open source text editor Notepad++ and tried to trick visitors to the site into handing over the credentials to their Facebook accounts. It is currently believed the software downloads were not affected. When accessed at the end of the week of May 7,

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by Eduard Kovacs UGNazi hackers breached the site of the Washington Military Department and leaked data from the Web site’s databases. The hackers leaked name servers, MX records, and the names and IP addresses of the subdomains used by the State of Washington. They also leaked around 16 user account details, consisting

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by Brian Krebs Debit card accounts stolen in a recent hacker break-in at card processor Global Payments were showing up in fraud incidents at retailers in Las Vegas and elsewhere, according to officials from one bank impacted by the fraud. At the beginning of March, Danbury, Connecticut-based Union Savings Bank (USB) began

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Operators of America’s power, water, and manufacturing facilities use industrial control systems (ICS) to manage them. However, the security of these systems, increasingly linked with Microsoft Windows and the Internet, is now under intense scrutiny because of growing awareness that they could be attacked and cause massive disruptions. Industrial facility operators are

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Canadian police said May 9 they broke up an international fraud ring that drained some $100 million from the accounts of unsuspecting bank card holders. Authorities arrested 45 people in a series of raids by members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, mostly in the Montreal, Quebec region, but also in Ottawa,

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