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February 2009
Monthly Archive
Fri 27 Feb 2009
Fri 13 Feb 2009
Kaspersky website hacked multiple times, expert says (SearchSecurity.com)
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A number of hackers probed the Kaspersky website after an initial breach was published on the hackersblog.org website.
Thu 12 Feb 2009
Hackers break in to BitDefender's customer database (Computer Weekly)
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Yet another major security vendor has had a customer database accessed by hackers. Hackers have accessed customer details from a Portuguese partner…
Tue 10 Feb 2009
An anonymous reader writes "I do my own Web design and have a few websites — MySQL, PHP, CSS, HTML, that kind of thing. It's simple, amateur stuff, but I would love to have some reasonable ways to assess their security myself and patch the big holes, or possibly enlist someone to do 'white hat' work to assist me. I have absolutely no idea how to proceed. I don't want to get mired in a …
Mon 9 Feb 2009
'Fugitif' strikes again Online payments site PayPal has been bitten by yet another cross-site scripting (XSS) bug that could be exploited by black hats to phish user passwords or possibly steal authentication cookies.…
Fri 6 Feb 2009
Geeks.com settles charges claiming its security was crap (The Register)
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A decade in the stockade Geeks.com, a large online seller of computer hardware and software, has agreed to allow federal regulators to monitor its website security for 10 years to settle charges it violated federal laws requiring it to adequately safeguard sensitive customer data.…
Wed 4 Feb 2009
Beijing leadership worried about migrants, Tibetans (Gulf Times)
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BEIJING: Millions of unemployed rural migrants and Tibetans fighting Beijing’s rule will be the biggest worries for China’s police and public security forces this year, state media reported yesterday.
Mon 2 Feb 2009
New Seed Contract Means Early Payment For Growers (Scoop.co.nz)
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In the face of these difficult economic times, Cropmark Seeds has taken a pro-active stance that will benefit the company's contract seed growers.
Mon 2 Feb 2009
Who picks the badware? Dispute erupts after Google glitch (BetaNews)
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For about 40 minutes early Saturday morning, a URL with a single backslash was inadvertently checked into a list of potential malware sites operated by StopBadware.org.