Posted: 05 Feb 2011 04:12 AM PST

Guard vendor Imperva warns that hackers are selling right to hacked websites and servers that belong to authorities, militaristic and educational institutions.

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The militia provides a screenshot of a slant of compromised websites as advertised by the hacker, which contains content specified as the dismantle of hit, the proprietor, traffic and terms.

For illustration, one of the most dear items is MySQL theme hit and top consider information from www.scguard.army.mil, the website of the Southern Carolina Subject Hold. It costs $499.

All Dealer Following Data Breach Shuted Down By Vodafone Australia

Posted: 05 Feb 2011 03:58 AM PST

Vodafone Continent has terminated sector relationships with one of its pinion dealers after inform showed the troupe attractive in wrong enterprise practices and violating consumer secrecy.

The Sydney Morn Greet newly obtained intramural emails from Study Label Pty Ltd, a assort priding as Vodafone's "largest payment relation," which showed senior managers instructing employees to represent customers and utilise the moneyman's favored make to the cause's database.

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According to a estimation in the paper, Comms Displace busy in all sorts of dubitable practices, one of them titled "Siebel agriculture," after the appoint of the consumer relation direction (CRM) exertion utilised by Vodafone.

Siebel job attached Comms Through staff searching the operator's database for customers whose contracts were active to suspire and vocation them to furnish advisable deals.

Amazon Identified An Eight-Digit Password Bug

Posted: 05 Feb 2011 01:27 AM PST

A unfamiliar arcanum bug was identified on Amazon, where the framework and everything after the prime ogdoad characters is unheeded for older reach codes.

The language around this problem was started on Reddit by a somebody who noticed that Amazon's grouping would authenticate him smooth if he mistyped the termination of his parole.

Ostensibly, the income exists exclusive for hit codes yearner than octad characters. For information, someone with a countersign of "iloveyouamazon" would be able to also log in with "iloveyoufacebook" or simply "iloveyou."

At first this power measure same a intellectual department flaw, but after analyzing the implications one realizes that the change is quite restricted.