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A large scale attack on UK government websites has been discovered. Hundreds of sites for schools, government offices, universities and more have been compromised to include links and other references to porn sites or shady pharmacies. The hacks were likely …

Donors to Minnesota Senator Norm Coleman’s campaign reacted angrily to the news that his campaign website hosted a completely unprotected datebase that contained their names, addresses, credit card numbers, and 3 digit security codes. The breach was revealed by the …

The U.S. Department of Defense was hit with a severe malware attack this week. The attack, which originated in Russia, was targeted at the networks in the department’s Central Command, which oversees the U.S.’s involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan. DOD …

Spammers are again attacking Microsoft’s CAPTCHA system and so far have a 10-15% success rate. They’re using automated bots to defeat the system, which was revised and revamped after it was attacked successfully earlier this year. Experts have found that …

Federal authorities in New Orleans have indicted a Brazilian man on charges he was planning to sell a botnet he created to a Dutch spammer. Prosecutors say 35 year old Leni de Abreu Neto created a botnet of over 100,000 …

A security vendor in the UK has discovered a new trojan. Called Limbo 2, it is designed to steal information from financial institutions and banks. Jacques Erasmus, director of malware research at Prevx says it may be the most sophisticated …

The Marshall Islands’ National Telecommunications Authority was hit by a spam attack that managed to shut down email service for the islands. The NTA is the sole ISP for the region, and is reporting that the constant flood of spam …

Photobucket, the most popular photo sharing site on the net, had it’s DNS servers hijacked by a Turkish hacking group. The group, called NetDevilz, made the site redirect to a third party domain hosted by atspace.com. As a result, Photobucket …