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Precise missiles, cyber-attacks, mass border invasions: Israel's next war
Haaretz All the details of the complex picture that will be provided by the fighting forces and the cyber system will be under the control of the War Room in the Kirya, which will supply and filter the relevant information to the future chief of staff. This is … |
A California school district, citing it’s for the children’s “safety” excuses, hired a company to monitor students’ social media posts even when the kids are not on campus. Glendale Unified School District includes “31 schools and over 2,620 employees, serving 27,000 students in grades Kindergarten through 12th grade.” The district is paying $ 40,500 for Geo Listening to analyze the social media posts…
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BT, the UK-based telecommunications company with more than 18 million customers, is dumping Yahoo Mail following a successful hacking campaign that hijacked e-mail accounts and used them to send spam, according to published reports.
BT’s plans come four months after Ars was among the first publications to report on the mass campaign. At the time, attackers were able to commandeer Yahoo Mail accounts because administrators had failed to apply an eight-month-old security patch in the WordPress content management system that powered one of its blogs. By including malicious JavaScript in innocuous-looking webpages, the attackers were able to exploit the vulnerability and seize control over Yahoo Mail accounts that happened to be open while the booby-trapped webpages were viewed.
In March, more than two months after Yahoo finally applied the WordPress fix, criminal spammers continued to hijack Yahoo Mail accounts, suggesting that other security holes remained. That same month, Vivek Sharma, the general manager of Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Messenger products reportedly vacated his post for unknown reasons.
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Chinese Hackers Suspected Of Mass Cyber Espionage On Games Industry
TechWeekEurope UK A group of hackers believed to be based in China have been hacking computer games companies, stealing plenty of vital data, including games' source code, as part of a big cyber espionage campaign. the affected businesses, of which there are at least 30 … Chinese Hacking Ring Targets Videogame Developers Hacker ring attacks game firms Years-long cyber attack on online gaming companies uncovered |
