Crunchyroll, a popular online streaming service for watching anime, was recently the victim of a DNS hijack which saw a malicious payload delivered to otherwise unsuspecting users.
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Despite Twitter's promotion of the two-factor authentication system to improve security over accounts, Twitter's CFO himself got hacked yesterday, with the account posting over 300 spam tweets.
Microsoft has announced it has now fixed a reported issue in its Skype service, which briefly allowed anyone to hijack a Skype account using a simple email method.
Using a simple method it was possible to hijack any Skype account with just the email address of the account holder, causing serious security concerns. The Skype team are currently on the case.
A security researcher has discovered a vulnerability in all versions of Internet Explorer, including IE9, on all versions of Windows. This vulnerability allows hackers to steal login information for any sites requiring passwords. The theft...
The popular email service Hotmail has been defaced in Israel by a Turkish hacker going by the name of TurkGuvenligi of Turksec. It appears the site has been subject to a DNS hijack, the practice of...
British ISP TalkTalk has staged a stunt aimed at proving to Lord Mandelson that his plans to cut-off file-sharers without due process is "naive". The company's stunt demonstrates how innocent parties could easily be disconnected...
Forbes is reporting that two researchers plan to reveal an un-patched iPhone bug that could virally infect phones via SMS. The hijack was discovered by iPhone hacker Charlie Miller. Miller is a well known security...
Branded by some as "hacktivism", the conflict between Israel and Palestine has spilled onto the web, with activists from both sides defacing websites, taking over computers and shutting down Facebook groups, according to a report...
The Background Intelligent Transfer Service used by Microsoft Corporation's operating systems to deliver patches via Windows Update, is being used by hackers to sneak malware past firewalls, according to Symantec researchers. BITS, which debuted in...
Hackers allegedly hijacked satellite TV signals in southern China to broadcast anti-government messages, news reports said Thursday. Viewers complained that their TV screens went blank for nearly two hours or showed anti-government messages for 30...
Researchers at the University of Indiana and Symantec are warning that about half of internet users with a home router are vulnerable to having the hardware hijacked. The researchers found that home router users are...
Had Google left the the cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability unpatched, hackers could have modified third-party Google documents and spreadsheets as well as had access to e-mail subjects and search history. According to Philipp Lenssen,...
A fully working exploit for a high-risk vulnerability fixed by Microsoft two days ago has been put into limited release, prompting new "patch now" warnings from computer security experts. The exploit, which allows PC takeover...
Back in September, Xbox Europe launched a new TV and cinema advertising campaign called 'Cops and Robbers'. The ad, features three 'robbers' wearing ski masks running away from 'cops', holding what looks like a bag...
Digital-media delivery company RealNetworks on Thursday rolled out patches for four high-risk vulnerabilities in its flagship RealPlayer software, warning that the flaws put millions of users at risk of PC hijack attacks. The Seattle, Wash.-based...
After much rumour-mongering, Rockstar finally confirmed to us today that the GBA incarnation of epic crime fest Grand Theft Auto will release in Europe on October 22 - the same day as the PS2 launch...
Security researchers have discovered a serious boundary error vulnerability in multiple versions of Microsoft's Windows platform and warned that attackers could hijack systems via Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer (IE). Rodrigo Gutierrez, a...
Belkin is trying to defuse a potentially embarrassing situation that arose after network administrators learned the company's routers can periodically hijack users' Web connection and display an advertisement for parental control software. Every eight hours,...
The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA), the government body responsible for administering and issuing driving licences in the UK, has been heavily censured in a rejection of its bid to acquire the domain DVLA.com....
The recent privacy stuff-up in Messenger "pales in comparison to what can be done if you use MSN Messenger through unpatched IE vulnerabilities," security researchers Tom Gilder and Thor Larholm have discovered. ...
