Hacking and Security

Nightmare Breach: Leaked DreamHost Database Exposes 815 Million Records

86.15 GB worth of data and records were left exposed by hosting provider DreamHost in a huge security breach. The company left its database open by mistake a few months back, and exposed 815 million records – names, usernames and email addresses of its customers. The data dates back to 2018 and also includes admin …

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First Android Trojan for Mobile Phones is on the Loose

An SMS Trojan called Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer.a has infected Android mobile devices, according to security firm Kaspersky Lab. The Trojan is camouflaged as  a harmless media player application. Users are prompted to install a file of just over 13 KB with the standard Android extension .APK. Once installed on the phone, the Trojan uses the system to …

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Massive Spyware Attack on Facebook

A massive spyware attack on Facebook was launched during the past weekend. AVG Technologies researchers indicated that from midnight to 9 a.m. EST on Saturday, May 15, 2010, AVG software detected and blocked more than three hundred thousand rogue applications. Social networks are viral by nature – when a user installs a Facebook app, there's …

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Gmail is Slow; Delicious is Spammed

If you are a Gmail user, you might have experienced the horrors of awful slowness in your inbox lately. Gmail problems include: extremely long load times (we are talking 10 minutes in some cases), messages that are late to arrive, problems downloading attachments and problems with sending messages. These issues arise in all browsers and …

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