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Admins warned of brute-force SSH attacks

2008-05-14 22:01:23 by manunkind in PC Sympathy
 
...attacks the administrators saw previously The Internet Storm Center, a network monitoring team supported by the SANS Institute, warned system administrators on Monday to take steps to protect their systems, noting the sharp spike in attacks From the most recent reports I have seen, the attackers have been using either low and slow style...
 
Tags: attacks, internet, internet address space, slow style attacks, internet addresses, ssh, dictionary attacks, network administrators, administrators
 
 
 
 
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New SQL Injection Attacks Exploit Adobe Flash Flaw

2008-05-29 01:52:16 by manunkind in PC Sympathy
 
...attacks is exploiting an Adobe Flash vulnerability that appears to be coming from the same series of attacks originating from China The intent, as in previous attacks, has been to steal online gamers password credentials. But given the persistence and scope of the attacks over the past few months, researchers worry that World of Warcraft...
 
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Secure SQL Server from SQL injection attacks

2008-07-02 12:20:19 by manunkind in PC Sympathy
 
...attacks are probably the most common way for hackers to strike Internet-facing SQL Server databases. No matter how secure your network is or how many firewalls you have in place, any application that uses dynamic SQL and allows for unchecked user input to be passed to the database is at risk for a SQL injection assault. Recent reports on Web...
 
Tags: attacks, sql injection attacks, injection attacks, sql server, web hack attacks, sql server platform, sql injection tool, sql server databases, databases
 
 
 
 
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How To Protect Data From Virus Attacks?

2007-12-19 18:04:00 by DuckPro in Take what you want, but leave Soft Reviews alone!
 
...attacks have also increased. Viruses come unannounced and uninvited, stay there as an unwanted guest and cause harm to your precious data and files Sometimes in the cases of severe virus attacks, complete data from the hard disk gets erased, hard drives get overwritten and even the physical drive media gets corrupt 25% of the data loss is...
 
Tags: virus, data, anti-virus program scans, software malfunctions, software, anti-virus software, severe virus attacks, virus attacks, safeguard data
 
 
 
 
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Vishing Attacks Increasing

2008-06-13 15:02:01 by manunkind in PC Sympathy
 
...attacks, have equally serious ramifications against the victims Remember vishing? Well, heres a refresher Vishing is a type of phishing attack that involves Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology in stealing users sensitive information, usually financial in nature. Like certain types of phishing attacks, it usually persuades users...
 
Tags: attacks, users, threatens internet users, web site compromises, users sensitive information, sms spam, spam, sms, attack
 
 
 
 
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China attacks Facebook on the eve of Olympics.

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2008-08-11 11:37:21 by Bilal Hameed in Startup Meme
...attacks from people and groups around the world. The latest in the series of such attacks is a series of phishing attacks that have been mounted from China. The socially connected nature of Facebook users have allowed these attacks to spread virally. More worrying is the the fact that these attacks have increased in sophistication Apparently...
 
Tags: facebook, facebook users, users, facebook company profile, attacks, security, security concerns, google, china
 
 
 
 
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Top Six Database Attacks

2008-05-08 23:31:50 by manunkind in PC Sympathy
 
...attacks go unnoticed by organizations until long after the data has been compromised And surprisingly, according to many experts, the database home of the enterprises crown jewels is still not secured properly in many enterprises. Malicious hackers are using shockingly simple attack methods to break into databases, such as exploiting weak...
 
Tags: database, database attacks, database home, database security vendor, database administrator, database configuration, enterprises crown jewels, typical database, enterprises
 
 
 
 
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Wi-Fi networks suffer autoimmune attacks

2008-08-04 13:08:59 by manunkind in PC Sympathy
 
...attacks its own cells, so the security software intended to protect network users can be fooled into attacking them. This could make attacks by hackers even harder to detect and prevent Security software typically prevents unauthorised access by encrypting most of the data transmitted across a network, preventing hackers from exploiting it to...
 
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Targeted attacks using malicious PDF files

2008-04-24 19:14:39 by manunkind in PC Sympathy
 
...attacks. However, due to the wide scope of these attacks, and the number of targets we know of, we feel a diary entry was in order At this point in time, we are receiving more PDF samples from targeted attack victims per day than any other common file type (DOC, CHM, PPT). The threat agents, or attackers, are the same. They are just moving...
 
Tags: pdf, clean pdf file, malicious pdf messages, file, pdf samples, pdf files exploit, common file type, malicious pdf, file types
 
 
 
 
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SQL injection attacks becoming more intense

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2008-05-13 23:17:16 by manunkind in PC Sympathy
...attacks weve mentioned here and here are increasing in numbers and were seeing more domains being injected and used to host the attack files and we believe that there are now more than one group using a set of different automated tools to inject the code Previously these attacks have primarily pointed to IP addresses in China and weve seen...
 
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