Neowin News Feed for: Steals

Kotaku Steals Pictures from a Blogger

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:11:56 +0000

One of our forum members has discovered that Kotaku, a popular gamers’ news site, is taking pictures from his blog, cropping them, and posting them as part of their gaming stories. Not only did Kotaku... Read more...

Trojan Horse Dupes Skype Users, Steals Personal Info

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:05:55 +0000

Skype Ltd. again warned users of its software that malicious code targeting the voice-over-IP (VoIP) and instant messaging service was on the prowl, the second such alert in the past five weeks. A Trojan horse... Read more...

Trojan Hidden on Job Search Sites Steals Personal Data

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:01:24 +0000

SecureWorks researchers have uncovered a cache of stolen data from 46,000 victims of a variant of the Prg Trojan that has been used to swipe personal information from unsuspecting visitors to job sites. Experts at... Read more...

Hacker Steals French Presidential Candidate Data

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 21:07:13 +0000

As the French presidential race came into full swing, a hacker stole sensitive data (including a list of the Jean-Marie Le Pen's backers) stored in the National Front party headquarters' database, according to police reports.... Read more...

Steve Jobs Steals 2nd Place for Media Mogul

Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:06:31 +0000

Apple CEO (and board member of Disney) Steve Jobs has overtaken Rupert Murdoch in a league table of media moguls. Jobs is ranked number two in the MediaGuardian 100 power list. In first place... Read more...

Pop-up program reads keystrokes, steals passwords

Tue, 29 Jun 2004 21:36:08 +0000

Today security researchers have discovered a new malware that affects Internet Explorer. This new malware targets bank customer's information. This program copies keystrokes to steal user's passwords from over 50 target online banking... Read more...

OD2 Steals iTunes' Thunder with Jukebox Plug-In

Mon, 14 Jun 2004 18:41:26 +0000

OD2 today launched its online jukebox where customers can get a song for only one penny. OD2 jukebox uses Microsoft's Windows Media Player 9 software. This software from OD2 offers a little over 350,000... Read more...

Sun steals page from Microsoft's playbook

Sun, 14 Sep 2003 19:44:04 +0000

Sun Microsystems this week will take the covers off its long-hyped Project Orion and Project Mad Hatter at the SunNetwork conference in San Francisco. To strengthen its position as a serious enterprise software player, the... Read more...

NiceHello steals your MSN Messenger password

Wed, 12 Mar 2003 13:28:45 +0000

A recently discovered virus codenamed Win32.NiceHello.A@mm is spreading as an e-mail attachment and targets MSN Messenger users. The virus sends email messages (in the format described above) to the user's MSN/.NET Messenger's contacts... Read more...

Boston College Student Steals Around $2,000 with Keylogger

Fri, 07 Feb 2003 10:52:40 +0000

Wow! Installing software on 100 computers without causing attention cant be easy! BOSTON -- A college student was indicted on Thursday on charges he placed software on dozens of computers that allowed... Read more...

Hacker steals Nasa shuttle plans

Darren Bolton — Tue, 13 Aug 2002 07:04:29 +0000

Design data lifted from 'closed' server Officials at Nasa were left red-faced last week after it emerged that a hacker had snuck onto the organisation's network and made off with design data about future space... Read more...

Handspring steals a jump on Palm with PDA phone

Mon, 15 Oct 2001 14:45:31 +0000

Handspring have stolen an important jump on their chief rival in the PDA arena, by announcing the availability of a handheld computer with a built-in cellphone for the European and Asian markets. Called... Read more...