A former college student has admitted taking part in a criminal scheme that used malware to steal and sell large databases of faculty and alumni, change grades, and siphon funds from other students' accounts.
He used thumbdrives with malware he created to compromise the machines. At first, I...
Thousands of Web Sites Hit With New Twist on Old SQL Injection Hack
Thousands of Web Sites Hit With New Twist on Old SQL Injection Hack | Arik Hesseldahl | NewEnterprise | AllThingsD
A relatively simple hack has been used to compromise at least 500,000 Web sites, and perhaps as many as 1.5...
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A new piece of malware is capable of killing the Windows boot process, according to Microsoft. Win32/Yonsole.A is a backdoor Trojan, a term that defines a piece of malicious code designed to compromise computers and subsequently connect to a server controlled by the attacker, receive and execute...
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