Neowin News Feed for: Victims

Sam Bankman-Fried fraud case: DOJ launches website for FTX victims

Paul Hill — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 04:50:01 +0000

The US Department of Justice has launched a website with contact details so that FTX victims can reach out. It could help Sam Bankman-Fried's victims recover the funds they lost access to on FTX. Read more...

You can now visualize the spread of the #MeToo movement using Google Trends

Usama Jawad — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:32:01 +0000

Google has announced "Me Too Rising", a dedicated website which uses data from Google Trends to allow people to visualize the spread of the #MeToo movement and its impact worldwide. Read more...

Google launches Person Finder to help Japanese earthquake victims

Piers Hausjell — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:03:47 +0000

Google has launched a Person Finder service for use by those caught up in the recent earthquakes and tsunami in Japan. The website, available in both English and Japanese, is to be used like a... Read more...

Monster.com Identity Attack May Claim More Victims

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:00:20 +0000

According to digital security firm Symantec, as many as 1.6 million records belonging to several hundred thousand people from Monster.com Worldwide's job search service may have been stolen by the trojan horse Infostealer.Monstres in a... Read more...

Hackers Sift Gaming, Social Networking Sites for Victims

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 10:03:14 +0000

Insecurely written software still looms as one of the greatest threats to Internet commerce, and user-generated Web content is becoming a vast new vulnerability hackers want to exploit, according to experts at RSA Conference. Cross-site... Read more...

Symantec: More Patched Systems, Fewer Potential Victims

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 18:26:20 +0000

Symantec on Monday said that while worm-scanning activity against its corporate antivirus software had increased over the weekend, the number of infected systems had dropped. According to the security company's own DeepSight sensor network, scanning... Read more...

Neowin Appeal : Help Tsunami Victims

Thu, 30 Dec 2004 17:56:22 +0000

Reuters is now reporting that 120,000+ people are dead as a result of the tsunami that hit countries on Boxing Day. There are tens of thousand of people still un-accounted for, and the real figure... Read more...

Your Old Inkjet Printer Could Aid Burn Victims

Fri, 03 Dec 2004 19:36:22 +0000

Looking for a place to toss your old inkjet printers? A team of scientists working to create human tissue may have a good use for them. Inkjets that are ten years old, they say, are... Read more...

E-mail virus insults its victims

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 28 Nov 2002 11:37:28 +0000

A new computer virus has managed to infect--and insult--less savvy Internet users, antivirus companies said on Wednesday. Known as Winevar, the computer worm arrives in e-mail as an attachment that infects Windows PCs when opened... Read more...

'Microsoft' E-Mail Trojan Harvests New Victims

Thu, 21 Mar 2002 09:38:39 +0000

Flaws in the W32/Gibe mass-mailing worm have prevented it from becoming anything like the Internet epidemics of Melissa and LoveBug. But the recent malicious code has introduced a new technique that could help future worms... Read more...