EUVD-2007-2547

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Who Stole 3.6M Tax Records from South Carolina?

For nearly a dozen years, residents of South Carolina have been kept in the dark by state and federal investigators over who was responsible for hacking into the states revenue department in 2012 and stealing tax and bank account information for 3.6 million people. The answer may no longer be a...

Associated Press, ESPN, CBS among top sites serving fake virus alerts

ScamClub is a threat actor whos been involved in malvertising activities since 2018. Chances are you probably ran into one of their online scams on your mobile device. Confiant, the firm that has tracked ScamClub for years, released a comprehensive report in September while also disrupting their...

Google Tracks Android, iPhone Users Even With 'Location History' Turned Off

Google tracks you everywhere, even if you explicitly tell it not to. Every time a service like Google Maps wants to use your location, Google asks your permission to allow access to your location if you want to use it for navigating, but a new investigation shows that the company does track you...

Senator Demands Answers on FBI's Use of Zero Days, Phishing

The chairman of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee is asking some pointed questions of the FBI director about the bureau’s use of zero-day vulnerabilities, phishing attacks, spyware, and other controversial tools. Sen. Charles Grassley R-Iowa has sent a letter to FBI Director James Comey...

FBI Cyber Division put 'Syrian Electronic Army' Hackers in wanted list

The Syrian Electronic Army SEA, a pro-regime hacker group that emerged during Syrian anti-government protests in 2011, and involved in cyber attacks against western media organizations are now in the FBI's wanted list. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued an alert warning of cyber attac...

Twitter Enables Two-Factor Authentication

Responding to a wave of high-profile account takeovers in recent months, Twitter has implemented a phone-based two-factor authentication scheme that will require a numerical code along with a username and password when users log in to their accounts. The feature, known as login verification, is...

Financial Times hacked by Syrian Electronic Army

The Financial Times has become the latest news outlet to be hacked by supporters of the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, following a phishing attack on the company's email accounts. The posh broadsheet's Tech Blog - at https://blogs.FT.com/beyond-brics was compromised to run stories headlined...

Hacked Twitter account of The Associated Press posted bogus report of attack at White House

The Associated Press Twitter account has been hacked,and posted a bogus post about explosions at the White House and Barack Obama is injured. Within a few minutes, Twitter suspended the account, and Julie Pace, the chief White House correspondent for The A.P., announced at a White House briefing...

Hacked Twitter account of The Associated Press posted bogus report of attack at White House

The Associated Press Twitter account has been hacked,and posted a bogus post about explosions at the White House and Barack Obama is injured. Within a few minutes, Twitter suspended the account, and Julie Pace, the chief White House correspondent for The A.P., announced at a White House briefing...

Fortune Favors the Bold? Man Steals Microsoft Founder's Identity, Credit Card

When one Pennsylvanian man couldn’t foot his bills, he opted to steal the identity of someone that could – one of the world’s richest men, Microsoft co-founder and billionaire Paul Allen. An AWOL solider from Pittsburgh swiped Allen’s Citibank credit card account information earlier this year to...

Государственные ресурсы США подвергли DDoS-атаке не корейские хакеры

Как сообщает Associated Press, оглашены предварительные результаты расследования, которое ведут американские специальные службы по делу нарушения работы сайтов госслужб США. Как выяснилось, хакеры из Северной Кореи не участвовали в широкомасштабном DDoS-прессинге, который был нацелен на...

CVE-2007-2554

Associated Press AP Newspower 4.0.1 and earlier uses a default blank password for the MySQL root account, which allows remote attackers to insert or modify news articles via shows.tblscript...

CVE-2007-2554

Associated Press AP Newspower 4.0.1 and earlier uses a default blank password for the MySQL root account, which allows remote attackers to insert or modify news articles via shows.tblscript...