According to a paper published in the International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics last month most educational websites in the U.S. are using Flash applications that fail to adequately secure these pages from hacking. This leaves these websites ripe for malicious and criminal activity. A team used SwfScan to scan 250 educational websites. [...]

Yahoo E-Mail accounts hacked in China. The attacks seemed to be coordinated and were against journalists, rights activists and academics. A Chinese human rights organization said that there web site was hit 5 days in a row. In at least one incident a hacked account had all there E-Mails forwarded to a mystery address. This [...]