Tag Archive for: hacking

Human Errors, Idiocy Fuel Hacking – Bloomberg

Tactics such as spear-phishing — sending a limited number of rigged e-mails to a select group of recipients — rely on human weaknesses like trust, laziness or even hubris. That’s what happened in March, when attackers used a clever ruse to exploit …
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Games firm Sega investigates hacking breach: report – Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) – Japanese computer games publisher Sega has launched an investigation after hackers broke into its customer database, the BBC reported on Saturday, in the latest in a series of online corporate security breaches. The technology company …
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European Council: Creating hacking tools should be criminal across EU – The Register

“The term botnet indicates a network of computers that have been infected by malicious software (computer virus),” the Council statement said. “Such network of compromised computers (‘zombies’ may be activated to perform specific actions such as attacks …
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Making of hacking tools should be criminal across Europe, say ministers – Out-Law

“The term botnet indicates a network of computers that have been infected by malicious software (computer virus),” the Council statement said. “Such network of compromised computers (“zombies” may be activated to perform specific actions such as attacks …
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