Neowin News Feed for: Weakness

DNS change puts 284 Pakistani websites at mercy of hackers

Paul Ferson — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 13:16:04 +0000

A DNS change has put 284 webpages at a weakness to hackers. Among the pages defaced by a group of seemingly Turkish hackers are the eBay, Microsoft and Google sites. No groups claim responsibility. Read more...

Windows weakness can lead to network traffic hijacks

Slimy — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 19:56:07 +0100

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At the ShmooCon hacker conference, researchers with security firm IOActive claimed a design bug in the system used by Windows PCs to obtain proxy settings could let attackers hijack traffic. Internet Explorer on Windows PCs... Read more...

Opera "sun.*" System Information Disclosure Weakness

malebolgia — Tue, 23 Nov 2004 02:03:24 +0000

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Marc Schoenefeld has reported a weakness in Opera, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose some system information. Opera accesses the JRE (Java Runtime Environment) directly instead of using the Java plugin. The... Read more...

Sony profit soars despite PS2 weakness

Dice — Thu, 29 Jul 2004 02:52:12 +0100

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Shrinking PlayStation 2 shipments and sales send revenues from the game division tumbling. Sony Corporation reports that the game division of Sony's developement reduced sales of Playstation 2 hardware as well as... Read more...

IE flaw exposes weakness in Yahoo! filtering

Wed, 24 Mar 2004 04:27:55 +0000

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Flaws in the filtering technology used by Web-based email services make it possible for hackers to smuggle viruses past defences. Israeli security outfit GreyMagic Software warned today that this "severe security" vulnerability could allow attackers... Read more...

'Ethical hackers' test for weakness

me101 — Tue, 05 Aug 2003 14:46:22 +0100

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In a 17th-floor corner office in north Toronto, a group of computer nerds is feverishly attacking Corporate Canada -- and getting paid for its efforts. "If you have a system on-line, you will... Read more...