Staged cyber attack exposes vulnerability
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Researchers who launched an experimental cyber attack caused a generator to self-destruct, alarming the federal government and electrical industry about what might happen if such an attack were carried out on a larger scale, CNN has learned.
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An attack utilizing a vulnerability in an ActiveX control for the popular RealPlayer media program may be spending in a more more dangerous fashion than anyone realized. Exploit code for the vuln has been found embedded in ads served up from a popular advertising site.
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Millions of computer users are at risk of attack because flaws in the way Windows handles some images.
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Attacks exploit IE flaw, and allow attacker to gain complete control of your PC.
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A newly identified malicious program not only messes up its victims' computers, it taunts them too.
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Third-party fix plugs a recently discovered browser flaw that's increasingly being exploited in cyberattacks.
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An industrial turbine overheating and crippling the power supply is one highlight on a Homeland Security video that deals with the possible outcome of a concentrated hacker attack on the American infrastructure.
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Hackers take advantage of a flaw in various Microsoft programs that leaves PCs vulnerable to remote attacks. Security experts expect the threat to grow.
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A new hacking method is causing concern for the lengths it goes to avoid detection by security software and researchers.
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An international conference opened Wednesday amid warnings that companies, governments and individuals are increasingly vulnerable to Internet attacks by terrorists, hackers and others that rob them of privacy, money, and secrets.
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Post Sept. 11 cyberterrorism predictions haven't materialized. But U.S. power plants, trains and oil pipelines are nonetheless more vulnerable than ever before.
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Researchers in the U.S. say they've successfully shown how attackers could compromise a network designed to make it harder to trace Web sites they are viewing.
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Exploit code targets a flaw that generated a government warning last week.
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Researchers in the U.S. say they've shown how a network designed to make it harder to trace Internet surfers could be compromised.
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Targeted spyware, network break-ins, and other digital crime pushes cyber espionage to a new level of concern.
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Days after sample attack code for a yet-to-be-patched flaw surfaced, malicious sites are popping up that exploit the hole.
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Technique lets intruders exploit flaws previously thought to be insignificant, says security researcher.