Federal prosecutors claim the company and its owners violated federal funds transfer laws, saying it knowingly served online scammers, identity thieves and child pornographers.
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Entries from April 2007
E-Gold charged with money laundering
April 30th, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: Cybercrime · Government · Security · SecurityFocus
A Mac gets whacked, a second survives
April 21st, 2007 · No Comments
Researchers use a previously unknown flaw in Apple’s Safari browser to compromise a MacBook Pro and win the PWN to Own contest, but does the hack actually prove anything?
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UPDATE: More on the vulnerability, which is a Java flaw in QuickTime.
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MacBooks withstand mild attacks on patch day
April 19th, 2007 · No Comments
On the same day that Apple releases an update for its Mac OS X, security professionals at a conference in Canada show little initial interest in attempting to crack the security of two MacBook Pros.
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Tags: Flaws and vulnerabilities · Research · Security · SecurityFocus · Software
Attackers improve on JavaScript trickery
April 18th, 2007 · No Comments
Latest malicious software throws in more obfuscation and works harder to foil defenders’ attempts at reverse engineering.
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U.S. agencies get ‘C-’ for computer security
April 13th, 2007 · No Comments
In an annual report card mandated by federal law, two dozen federal agencies improve their average grade slightly from last year’s ‘D+’.
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Developers warned to secure AJAX design
April 4th, 2007 · No Comments
A flaw in the way many asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) frameworks use the scripting to communicate data between a server and client allows malicious sites to hijack the conversation.
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