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Animated Cursors is now Windows' Vulnerability |
 ...Users who work with the latest versions of Windows should be aware that they are at a great risk of being attacked by hackers. This statement was made by Microsoft's officials. There is a certain vulnerability in the operating system that can affect all recent versions of Windows, this includes Vista. In a security advisory the company's representatives stated that Windows' software is flawed in a way it operates with its... |
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Timeline of the events in Tallinn, Estonia |
 ...round the CIS veterans of World War II expressed their opinions, which were all against Estonian actions in Tallinn. One of the leaders of the "Night Watch" arrested in Tallinn.
April 28, 2007 - Hackers attack the Estonian official web-page and the site of the ruling Estonian party. Over 500 people arrested over this night, about 100 of them teenagers: 10 people injured. Moscow demands punishment for people involved ... |
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Young hackers are just curious |
 ...puter or website and used the material from that site. As much as 13 percent of all the respondents said they made changes in computer systems or computer files.
However, only one out of ten the hackers indeed were interested to cause harm or earn money. Most of teenagers did it to see what will happen and thought of it just as an exciting experience.
Nancy Willard, specialist of the Center for Safe and Responsib... |
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Chinese hackers spotted on British government attack |
| ...China's military is suspected on hacking UK government computer networks. There was no comment from British government on the case.
Government officials claimed on the attack of Chinese hackers who are also thought to be from China's military.
This was a third attack on foreign governments registered in last two months and all of them were connected to Chinese military.
The first case in June was reported as ... |
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Microsoft Cautions of New Hacker Attack on Word Files |
 ...Microsoft believes that hackers may use an unpatched hole in order to install malicious code in Word documents as well as in any system that opens these documents.
It is important that users are very cautious in opening documents in Windows Operating System, and namely Word files.
On March 22, the software giant warned that hackers may use an unpatched flaw in Microsoft's Windows in order to plant malware on users' ... |
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A MacBook Gets Hacked in Less Than 2 Minutes |
 ...The CanSecWest security conference featured the PWN2OWN (pwn - in hackers language means to take control over a computer) hacking contest, which was about finding out which laptop would get hacked first: a MacBook Air, a Windows Vista based Fujitsu U810 or a Linux based Sony VAIO.
The event consisted of three parts, two of which are already over. The first one was about hacking into a system using networks attacks, i.e. ... |
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Students Hack into School's Computer Systems to Change Their Grades |
 ...t all of the students' grades to be reevaluated. Only this way there may be confidence in the fact that the grades are accurate and have not been tampered with.
There was no information wether the hackers only improved the grades or gave some students lower grades. In any case, as the investigators state, the altered grades would have been recorded on report cards or on other academic records. Among the students under ... |
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New Virtual Korset to Prevent Malware Attacks |
| ...lists identify the signature that the computer virus generates. The signature is then sent in form of an anti-virus update to users. The main problem is than the whole process takes too much time and hackers can attack a computer before the update is installed.
"There is an ongoing battle between computer security experts and the phenomenal growth of viruses and network worms flooding the Internet. The fundamental probl... |
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