Posts Tagged ‘Hackers’
Scientists have identified the first malware that was built specifically to attack vulnerabilities in the Android OS 2.3 or Gingerbread.
The researchers found the malware inside an official application that is downloaded via the Chinese site.
Previously, some threats have been found for Android, such as DroidDream and DroidDream Light, who attacked the Android version of the old but still could not attack the Android 2.3.
Xuxian Jiang, an assistant professor of computer science at North Carolina State University, along with his team working in NetQin Mobile Security found a malware that is capable of attacking Android 2.3. Jiang himself gave the name of the malware as ‘GingerMaster’.
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Internet security experts have discovered a largest cyber attacks, which attack the network of 72 organizations including the United Nations (UN), governments, and corporations worldwide.
Security firm McAfee, who discovered the attack, believing that there is one country that became the actor behind this attack, but they refused to mention it. Even so, one security expert said that the evidence leads to China.
Countries and institutions affected by these cyber attacks is the United States (U.S.), Taiwan, India, South Korea, Vietnam and Canada, ASEAN, the International Olympic Comitee (IOC), World Anti-Doping Agency, and others.
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A new bug has been discovered in Windows that allows hackers to insert malicious applications in it. It was also acknowledged Microsoft and plans to soon release a patch to fix it.
Gap had actually already been disclosed to the internet security conference title in North Korea December 15, 2010. But after a lot of applications that can exploit the bug, Microsoft has noticed recently.
Bug exploit gaps in the graphics rendering system in Windows. As a result, hackers can embed the malware that can be active when users use the thumbnail view in Windows Explorer.
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Mikroblogging site Twitter could become victims of alleged acts parties calling itself the ‘Turkish Hackers’. At the time of the incident, the site is on the rise it has gone through a lot of errors.
Is a computer security and antivirus company F-Secure initially detect anomaly on Twitter. According to Mikko Hypponen, Chief Research Officer at F-Secure, there are around 1000 account which suddenly raises the message ‘Hacked by Turkish Hackers’.
Not just a Re-Tweet (featuring repeated messages from fellow Twitter users-red), the victims appear to deliver messages from the same interface and are not known with certainty. According to Mikko observations, most victims come from Israel.
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