Mark White, home affairs correspondent http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Sky-News-Undercover-Laptop-Investigation-Repair-Shops-Caught-Hacking-Into-Personal-Files/Article/200907315343387?lpos=UK_News_Top_Stories_Header_0&lid=ARTICLE_15343387_Sky_News_Undercover_Laptop_Investigation%3A_R Some computer repair shops are illegally accessing personal data on customers’ hard drives – and even trying to hack their bank accounts, a Sky News investigation has found. In one case, passwords, log-in details and holiday photographs were all copied onto a portable memory stick by a technician. In …
Category Archive: Security
Jul
11
Flaw Opens ATMs to Hackers
A conference presentation would have exposed flaws in some cash machines. By Robert Lemos July 08, 2009 http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22966/ Barnaby Jack, a security researcher at the computer networking giant Juniper, had planned to hack into an automatic teller machine (ATM) live onstage at the Black Hat Security Conference in Las Vegas later this month. But his …
Jul
07
BEWARE : Indian Orkut Accounts Compromised For Phishing
03-07-2009 http://www.spamfighter.com/News-12663-Indian-Orkut-Accounts-Compromised-For-Phishing.htm According to McAfee Avert Labs, as Web 2.0-based social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace increase in popularity, their users too are increasingly proving as convenient attack points for identity scams and other online frauds. Recently, hackers, online scammers and other cyber-criminals have been using Twitter as well to phish off …