Saudi hackers scalp MS UK
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Defacement video tutorial pulled after attack Saudi hackers manged to deface a page on Microsoft's UK web site last week, recording the techniques they used in an online video.â¦
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Job portal Monster.com has released details of how cyber thieves stole confidential information.
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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¦
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A company which makes software that infiltrates users&#39; computers and demands $30 to be removed has been targeted by US authorities.
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Pulling the plug Cut-rate internet host UK2.net has become the subject of a hacking attack, leaving customers temporarily unable to access their email.â¦
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We'll need a whole bunch of expensive stuff Sources in Washington have indicated that the cyber attack last June which targeted the office of US Defence Secretary Robert Gates was conducted by the Chinese military.â¦
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A database of internet service provider Bulldog was used to defraud many customers, the BBC learns.
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By HYWEL TREWYN  NORTH Wales Police have nailed a sophisticated scam in which computer hackers obtained pay-for-view television free.   A house in Anglesey was the centre of an international operation which took several months to carry out.
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A toolkit designed to exploit a recently-disclosed Microsoft JPEG vulnerability has been released onto the net. The toolkit (screen shot from AV firm F-Secure here) makes it trivially easy for maliciously-minded
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Per ardua ad ASTRA A man suspected of using computer hacking techniques to steal corporate secrets from a French defence contractor was arrested in Greece last Friday. Police are continuing to hunt for a suspected accomplice reckoned to be living in the UK.â¦
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Spammers are suspected of hacking into and downing Lycosâs anti-spam Web site just hours after it went live. The Web site is currently inaccessible and could also be the victim of a DDoS attack.
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Virus writers have created a new Trojan horse capable of helping crooks to break into the accounts of British internet banking customers.
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Oh dear... The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has raided three addresses connected to Torex Retail, the troubled software supplier already facing investigation from the London Stock Exchange (LSE), after a shock profit warning on 26 January.â¦
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Been scammed? Claim your Â£100,000 here We're obliged to the reader who alerted us to the agreeable news that Microsoft will compensate deserving 419 victims to the tune of Â£100,000 a head.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - A hacker successfully attacked a Web page within Microsoft's U.K. domain on Wednesday, resulting in the display of a photograph of a child waving the flag of Saudi Arabia. It was "unfortunate" that the site was vulnerable, said Roger Halbheer, chief security advisor for Microsoft in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, on Friday. The problem has since been fixed. However, the hack highlights how large software companies with technical expertise can still prove vulnerable to hackers. The hacker, who posted his name as "rEmOtEr," exploited a programming mistake in the site by using a technique known as SQL (Structured Query Language) injection to get unauthorized access to a database, Halbheer said. The site took SQL queries of a particular form, embedded in URLs (uniform resource locators), and passed them to a database. By embedding a query with an unexpected form in the requested URL, the hacker prompted the server to return error messages, Halbheer said. From those error messages, a hacker can get an idea of how the database is structured and refine a SQL query that the database will process as an instruction to insert, rather than retrieve, data. Eventually, the hacker found the right combination and inserted a link to an external Web site into the database. That meant when the normal Web page was called into a browser, the database would download data from an external link. In this case, it was two photos and a graphic, a screen shot of which is available on Zone-H.org , which tracks hacked Web sites. There are two ways to avoid this style of attack. First, the database should not be allowed to return error messages, Halbheer said. Secondly, the Web application should have validated the URL the hacker entered and rejected ones that should not be processed, he said. If a programmer makes a mistake, "the bad guy can leverage it," Halbheer said. SQL injection attacks are on the rise, overall, since valuable data is held within databases, said Paul Davie, founder and chief operating officer of Secerno, a security vendor that develops technology to protect databases from SQL attacks. "I don't think Microsoft are unique in this respect and shouldn't be held up as particularly slipshod," Davie said. "This could have happened to practically anybody."
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Home net hardware could come under attack from malicious hackers, say security researchers
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South-of-the-border street hawkers advertise suspicious kidney therapy. Part of Wired News' ongoing open-source investigation to out world quackery. In Bodyhack.