After the famous two minutes it took three security researchers to hack the equally famous Apple MacBook Air, Computerworld reports that another security researcher accomplished a similar feat, this time on a Vista notebook. The said notebook was running on the Windows Vista Ultimate platform and comes with an installed Flash Player from Adobe. A critical vulnerability in Flash was successfully exploited by Shane Macaulay, a consultant at Security Objectives, enabling him to break into a Fujitsu U810 running Windows Vista ...

A new kind of Web attack has taken form as a JavaScript inserted into the Epilepsy Foundation Web site was used to trigger the display of seizure-inducing images. Wired.com has reported that the attack began on 22 March 2008, when a script was used by attackers to post hundreds of messages with flashing animated .GIFs on the nonprofit organization's forum. Seemingly unsatisfied with the previous method, the perpetrators even managed to change their scheme by creating a script that redirected users ...

The Washington Post ran a story on a detained Ukrainian politico by the name of Dmitry Ivanovich Golubov. The 24-year-old Golubov, who ran for a public post under the Internet Party of Ukraine, was charged with credit and debit card information theft that has resulted in millions of dollars in losses for several financial institutions over several years. Golubov was quick to deny his involvement in any cybercrime activities and maintained that he was framed by the FBI. For their part, ...

The BBC reports that there had been a massive spam attack against China’s mobile users, affecting more than 200 million China Mobile and China Unicom subscribers. Almost half of China’s mobile phone user population received unwanted text messages from seven online advertising firms, one of which included NASDAQ-listed Focus Media, according to the Xinhua news agency. China’s State Council stated that it is thoroughly investigating the said incident. "We urge parties concerned to beef up self-scrutiny to correct their wrongdoing, which ...

Hmmm... Are most cyber criminals named Robert? Just recently, the "King of Spam" Robert Soloway pleaded guilty to charges against him as another Robert, 21-year-old Robert Matthew Bentley of Panama City, Florida also pleaded guilty to felony charges related to his botnet activities. The US-based hacker, The Register reports, admitted to cashing in thousands of dollars by hacking corporate computers in Europe and turning them into bots. Robert, who went by the codename LSDigital, worked with other hackers to install customized tools ...