Archive for January 27th, 2010

Hacker puts porn clip on Moscow video billboard

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
Hacker puts porn clip on Moscow video billboard

Someone hacked into a 3Stars outdoor advertising screen on the Garden Ring road in Moscow about midnight last Thursday and ran a two-minute hardcore video clip.The showing caused a massive traffic jam but city officials said the good news was that ther... »

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Botnet C&C switching to http; away from IRC

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
Botnet C&C switching to http; away from IRC

Researchers with Internet security group Team Cymru, headquartered in Burr Ridge, Ill., have reported that in the last six months they found a doubling of the number of botnets controlled through http – indicating easy-to-use point-and-click kits tha... »

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.edu sites being targeted in SEO poisoning

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
.edu sites being targeted in SEO poisoning

Malicious operators are increasing their attacks on .edu sites so they can use them in search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning schemes. The .edu sites are given higher rankings by search engines because they are expected to have more reliable inform... »

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There are now 75 million Twitterers

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
There are now 75 million Twitterers

And 350 million Facebookers.Consumer metrics firm RJMetrics of Camden, N.J, said in a recent report that 75 million people were using Twitter at the end of last year. At that point, there were 6.2 million people joining the micro-blogging service each ... »

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