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A newly discovered SSL flaw could allow an attacker to launch a man-in-the-middle attack and intercept an SSL-protected session, according to researchers.
November 05, 2009
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New research shows that Secure Socket Layer warnings, used in web browsers to indicate a problem with a web page's certificate or the potential for a man-in-the-middle attack, are ineffective.
July 28, 2009
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Mozilla has patched two vulnerabilities relating to the way browsers interact with SSL certificates. The flaws, which potentially could permit man-in-the-middle attacks, were disclosed by two researchers, Dan Kaminsky and Moxie Marlinspike, in separate presentations at last week's Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. Marlinspike showed how a heap...
August 03, 2009
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A Nebraska man on Monday agreed to plead guilty to participating in a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that took down the Church of Scientology website in January 2008. Brian Thomas Mettenbrink, 20, of Grand Island, Neb., agreed to serve a one-year prison sentence, according to a news release from...
January 27, 2010
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A man convicted of a 2004 financial hacking scheme now faces new charges after allegedly transferring more than $100,000 from customers of a New York-based online foreign exchange brokerage into his own account.
April 01, 2009
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A Cincinnati man has agreed to pay $1.9 million to settle charges with the Federal Trade Commission for his involvement in a scheme that allegedly tricked more than one million individuals into buying rogue anti-virus products.
June 29, 2009
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A Romanian man on Monday became the first foreign citizen ever to be sentenced to U.S. federal prison for involvement in a phishing scheme, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Connecticut said. Authorities believe six people were involved in the operation, but only Ovidiu-Ionut Nicola-Roman, 23, who received 50 months,...
March 30, 2009
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A Romanian man admitted Monday to his role in a scheme that placed skimming devices on ATMs to steal customer bank account numbers and PINs, prosecutors in Connecticut announced. Victor Constantin, 23, pleaded guilty to one count each of bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. He and co-conspirators used...
November 17, 2009
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A Chicago law firm and an Indiana man this week filed a class-action lawsuit against RockYou, provider of applications and services for social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. The company recently admitted that its databases, which contained the unencrypted usernames and passwords of 32 million users, were...
December 30, 2009
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A Florida man has been sentenced to 90 months in prison and three years of supervised release for hacking into the email accounts of individuals and companies between 2007 and 2009, with the goal of stealing data to commit computer crimes, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a...
January 11, 2010
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A Massachusetts man has been charged with selling hacked cable modems that were reconfigured to allow free, untraceable internet service, according to a news release from the U.S. Department of Justice. Matthew Delorey, 26, of New Bedford, Mass. was arrested on charges of wire fraud and conspiracy and faces...
February 01, 2010
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A 19-year-old New Jersey man has pleaded guilty for his role in a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that took down the website of the Church of Scientology. Dmitriy Guzner, who was charged in October, was part of an underground group named Anonymous. Guzner faces up to 10 years in...
May 18, 2009
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A New York man who admitted to providing the "sniffer" program that was used to hijack credit card numbers as they traversed the networks of a number of merchants, including TJX, was sentenced to two years in prison and three years of supervised release. Stephen Watt, 25, additionally was...
December 28, 2009
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A U.S. District Court judge on Monday ordered the assets frozen for a Russian man, his company BroCo Investments and his co-conspirators. The defendants are accused of using stolen credentials to access online brokerage accounts to boost the share prices of thinly traded stocks, according to a U.S. Securities...
March 17, 2010
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A New Jersey man was arrested in what is believed to be first criminal charge filed against someone accused of stealing internet property.
August 04, 2009
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Two security researchers are set to show how, due to a common browser vulnerability, extended-validation SSL certifications don't offer much more protection than traditional certs.
July 21, 2009
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Apple has released its first Mac OS X patches of 2010 to repair a number of vulnerabilities that could lead to remote code execution.
January 20, 2010
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One single malicious text message can knock an iPhone offline, a pair of researchers disclosed Thursday.
July 30, 2009
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In a second acknowledgement of security vulnerabilities this week, Adobe has released an update to address a potential vulnerability in versions of its Flash Media Server.
May 01, 2009
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January 01, 2010