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Taking passwords to the grave

September 22, 2006 Family members are increasingly unable to access important data because their loved ones have not left passwords behind. TAGS: Marc Rotenberg, e-mail company, attorney, Yahoo! Inc., address book, Time Warner Inc., spokeswoman, password, person, client, San Francisco, e-mail, Google Inc.

Gmail cookie vulnerability exposes user's privacy

September 27, 2007 Program developed by "ethical hacking" group takes advantage of cross-site scripting vulnerability to steal contacts, forward e-mail. TAGS: Gmail, XSS, cookie, organization, vulnerability, attacker, Google Inc., hacking, security, password, e-mail

Thousands of Brits fall victim to data theft

October 10, 2006 U.K. police struggle to contact people whose passwords and credit card details have been stolen. TAGS: victim, credit card, U.K., U.S., password, e-mail, Microsoft Corp.

Cisco warns customers of site breach

August 3, 2005 Company sends e-mails to site's users and advises people to change their passwords. TAGS: Cisco Systems Inc., incident, vulnerability, password, researcher, security, e-mail

E-mail worm graduates to IM

April 4, 2005 Chod.B worm is now spreading over MSN Messenger, after propagating over e-mail systems last week. TAGS: MSN Messenger, e-mail worm, MSN, Yahoo IM, IM, virus, Trend Micro Inc., Time Warner Inc., worm, Yahoo! Inc., password, e-mail, message, security, Microsoft Corp.

This week in worms

January 28, 2005 New variant of mass-mailing PC virus known as Bagle is making the rounds. Also: MySQL bot takes advantage of administrators' poor password choices. TAGS: MySQL, Bagle virus, worm, bot, online game, password, database, virus, e-mail, games, PC

Security expert: User education is pointless

October 12, 2006 Most office workers can't be made to care about phishing, rootkits or spyware, he says. Other specialists disagree. TAGS: phishing, computer security, security, goal, information technology, password, e-mail

Yahoo Mail puts words in your mouth

July 17, 2002 Yahoo uses an automated filter to search e-mail and swap out a handful of words that pertain to Web code known as JavaScript. TAGS: Richard Smith, JavaScript, Yahoo! Inc., Yahoo! Mail, command, filter, MSN Hotmail, word, HTML, e-mail, security, MSN, password, message, Web browser

Yahoo to plug security hole in dating site

December 20, 2005 Fix comes after security expert finds clues in online profiles that could let intruders reset passwords. TAGS: Bennett Haselton, Yahoo! Inc., password, security, account, e-mail

Firefox marketing site hacked

July 15, 2005 Attack on SpreadFirefox.com, the online hub for Mozilla's Firefox marketing efforts, may have exposed user data. TAGS: Mozilla Corp., Firefox, attack, Web browser, password, security, e-mail

Phishers target Yahoo Messenger

March 24, 2005 Phony messages direct people to a site that asks people for their Yahoo usernames and passwords. TAGS: e-mail filtering, SurfControl plc, Websense Inc., personal information, Yahoo! Inc., Yahoo IM, phishing, attacker, MSN Messenger, IM, victim, hacker, P2P, Australia, MSN, attack

Police blotter: Wife e-surveilled in divorce case

March 1, 2007 Man captures keystrokes and screen grabs of wife's chats with suspected lover--and is allowed to use them in divorce case. TAGS: affidavit, Police Blotter, divorce, electronic document, wife, Ohio, keyboard, attorney, monitoring, Adobe PDF, password, e-mail

AOL security breach exposes personal info

June 16, 2000 The online service confirms that hackers have illegally compromised an undisclosed number of its member accounts by targeting key company employees with an email virus. TAGS: Richard Smith, America Online Inc., attachment, account, hacker, Time Warner Inc., virus, e-mail, password, security

Phishing attacks take a new twist

May 5, 2005 Schemes involving malicious code that intercepts passwords and usernames are on the rise, Websense Security Labs reports. TAGS: Websense Inc., keylogger, phishing, malicious code, bank, researcher, password, e-mail

Pizza chain caught without fully baked security

November 8, 2005 Papa John's beefs up security for its Web-based e-mail system after internal e-mail and customer data are exposed. TAGS: password protection, credit card, password, security, e-mail

Phishers get personal

May 26, 2005 Spammers and online fraudsters are exploiting Web site features to learn more about their victims and better hone their attacks. TAGS: scammer, phishing, registration, e-mail address, margin, attacker, victim, recipient, profile, e-mail, attack, message, response, password, security

Phishing twist relies on bogus blogs

April 12, 2005 Attackers are capitalizing not only on the popularity of blogs, but also on the free storage that some hosting sites offer. TAGS: Websense Inc., blog, phishing, popularity, IM, password, e-mail, link, virus, security

This week in security

January 22, 2005 ISP gets hijacked, with all DNS records moved to the U.K. Plus, both Microsoft and Apple come under fire for holes in Office and Mac OS X. TAGS: domain name server, flaw, security company, Apple Computer, domain name, Apple Mac OS, Internet Service Provider, Apple Mac OS X, U.K., researcher, security, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Office, message, password, e-mail

Crypto flaw cracks Office open

January 20, 2005 Password-protected files at risk, researcher warns. Also: Baba offshoot makes false promises about erasing smut. TAGS: flaw, researcher, webcam, virus, Microsoft Office, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Computer, password, Apple Mac OS, Microsoft Corp., e-mail
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