Massive sentence for Wi-Fi hacking neighbor

Massive sentence for Wi-Fi hacking neighbor


Massive sentence for Wi-Fi hacking neighbor

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 07:30 AM PDT

The Kostolnik family's nightmare is over - the neighbor that has hacked into their Wi-Fi network and misused the access for terrorizing them has been sentenced to 18 years in prison. The 46-year-ol...

Analyzing and dissecting Android applications for security defects and vulnerabilities

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 06:00 AM PDT

In March 2011, 58 malicious applications were found in the Android Market. Before Google could remove the applications from the Android Market they were downloaded to around 260,000 devices. These app...

Law enforcement supports new U.S. data retention bill

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 05:12 AM PDT

A new proposal for a U.S. federal law that would compel ISPs to retain logs regarding their customers for 18 months is currently being discussed in the House of Representatives. Named "Protecting C...

Trend Micro Control Manager file disclosure vulnerability

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 04:04 AM PDT

A vulnerability in Trend Micro Control Manager can be exploited by malicious users to disclose sensitive information, according to Secunia. Input passed via the "module" parameter to WebApp/widge...

"Traffic ticket" spam email leads to scareware

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 03:48 AM PDT

A malicious email purportedly coming from the New York State Police is currently doing the rounds of inboxes and trying to scare people into opening and running the attached file: The recipient h...

Credit card numbers stolen in Kiplinger breach

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 03:09 AM PDT

Kiplinger Washington Editors - the publisher of well-known business and economic publications such as the The Kiplinger Letter and the Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine - has suffered a breach tha...

SSH client PuTTY 0.61 released

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 03:05 AM PDT

After four long years, here comes a new version of PuTTY, the popular free telnet/SSH client for Windows and Unix platforms. PuTTY 0.61 brings new features, bug fixes, and compatibility updates for Wi...

A look at Booz Allen leaked passwords

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 03:00 AM PDT

The recent attack against Booz Allen led to 90,000 leaked passwords. Unlike previous breaches where the passwords weren't encrypted, it looks like in this case some care was taken to scramble the data...

Three jailed for online banking attack

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 12:08 AM PDT

Three men have been jailed for a total of 13.5 years for their part in a sophisticated and concerted attack on the UK and international banking system following an investigation by the Met's Police Ce...

Microsoft releases new preview of SQL Server "Denali"

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 12:06 AM PDT

Microsoft released the next public CTP of Microsoft SQL Server "Denali" packed with Business Intelligence (BI) improvements and innovations for relational databases as well as for BI solutions. K...

Cisco refreshes Catalyst 6500 Series Switches

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 12:06 AM PDT

Cisco introduced the infusion of multiple innovations into its Catalyst 6500 Series Switches, the most widely deployed network switches on earth. At the heart of the makeover is the introduction ...

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