Millions hit by Monster site hack
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Job portal Monster.com has released details of how cyber thieves stole confidential information.
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The number of Web sites used to steal private account information from online consumers surged in October, as banks and other financial institutions continued to struggle against Internet &quot;phishing&quot; schemes.
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UPDATE: Campaign grows from distributed denial-of-service attack to Digg bumps.
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By now, the perils of securing online data with little more than user names and passwords should be well known. Monster.com learned that lesson late and the hard way, prompting this week's disclosure that the Web jobs board will spend millions of dollars to improve its security.
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Hackers co-opted several popular Web sites including comedycentral.com over the weekend, using them to infect thousands of computers with a virus that can be used to steal passwords, bank accounts and other personal information. -washingtonpost.com
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InfoWorld - Online criminals have launched a widespread Web attack that has turned tens of thousands of legitimate Web sites into weapons, security vendors said Monday.
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Also: Hackers rig Google to deliver malware. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.
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US consumers and businesses have lost an estimated $US500 million ($688 million) to the internet scam known as &quot;phishing&quot;, with seven out of 10 lured to fake websites, according to a survey.
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Fast-moving pest exploits site, player holes to steal passwords.
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Hackers have crippled one of the internet&#39;s biggest credit card processors, and tens of thousands of online merchants are losing business while the company struggles to recover.
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A massive hack of several hundred legitimate Web sites is spreading malware to visitors' PCs using a new tack that makes detection "extraordinarily difficult,"  security experts said today.
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PC Magazine - Security software services report that a massive Web attack, dubbed the &quot;Italian Job,&quot; has now compromised as many as 10,000 Web sites.
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NEW YORK -- Monster Worldwide Inc., a major online job-search site, said Wednesday it was beefing up its security measures following a significant data breach this month.
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Identity thieves who ransacked Monster.com's database also made off with the personal information of 146,000 people who use USAJobs.
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Several hundred pornography sites are surprising unwitting users with a smorgasbord of exploits via Mpack, the already notorious hacker toolkit that launched massive attacks from a network of more than 10,000 compromised domains.
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An attack combining malicious codes on Web sites and end-user laziness could compromise millions of routers still configured with their out-of-the-box defaults.
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Security nightmare for DreamHost Hackers have been able to load malware onto the official Mercury music awards site, as well as hundreds of other sites, after breaking into the systems of US-based hosting firm DreamHost.â¦