Major ID theft uncovered, affecting thousands of Californians

April 12th, 2005 An investigation by the firm's Anglo-Dutch parent Reed Elsevier determined that its databases had been fraudulently breached 59 times using stolen passwords, leading to the possible theft of personal information such as addresses and Social Security numbers. This is the second biggest breach after Bank of America incident.

June 26th, 2006 Maksymilian Arciemowicz has discovered a weakness in PHP, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to bypass certain security restrictions. This could have a major impact in shared hosting systems.

February 16th, 2009 With recession hitting the world economy, video games continue its record sales. The video game market is thriving with blockbusters like Grand Theft Auto IV, and popular ones like the Nintendo Wii.

May 6th, 2009 eBay to close Vancouver customer service facility SALT LAKE CITY — Online marketplace operator EBay Inc. said Tuesday it will close its Vancouver, Canada customer service facilities by Sept.

August 10th, 2006 Researchers at Cardiff University have uncovered a flaw in HSBC's online banking security process that has left over three million customer accounts vulnerable to attack over the last two years. The researchers found that anyone using the attack would have guaranteed access to an account with at most nine tries.

August 13th, 2005 A command execution vulnerability has been found in WordPress's handling of incoming cookie information which allows remote attackers to cause the program to execute arbitrary code if the PHP settings of register_globals has been set to On. Already a perl and php exploit is available.

July 6th, 2009 SAN JOSE, Calif. — Microsoft Corp.

July 3rd, 2007 Google and other major search engines (Yahoo, MSN Search etc.) which use back-links for importance calculation of a web page suffers from a fundamental flaw. Back-links can be manipulated and even purchased.

January 15th, 2009 Well you know a picture paints a thousand words. Same with  WordPress themes.

November 17th, 2006 I have two expired blogads ads still displaying on my site. They have expired quite sometime back.

August 10th, 2006 Nearly one in 10 people in UK believe they have fallen victim to identity fraud, according to a survey of 2,200 adults by YouGov. People aged under 30 are most prone to falling victim because they are the poorest at protecting personal details, the survey suggests.

May 29th, 2008 StatCounter sent a somewhat emotional email yesterday to all customers (paying or non-paying) telling us about the problems it is facing with PayPal. To summarize the two major issues affecting StatCounter Paypal subscribers are: - Delayed issuing of invoices - Instances of double billing StatCounter complains - At StatCounter we have tried phoning, emailing, posting on the Paypal forums...

June 30th, 2009 Rackspace, one of the MAJOR dedicated server hosting providers of the world, went down severely for more than an hour yesterday, resulting in with many popular websites going down like eventbrite.com, Timberlake's blog, Malkin's blog and etc. As Rackspace was found quoting, We are having an issue that is affecting part of our DFW data center.

September 3rd, 2008 I don't get Google AdSense. Last year with great fanfare they announced making the text of the ad non-linkable while keeping the title and URL linkable.

August 12th, 2009 Microsoft has released nine patches to fix 19 security vulnerabilities affecting multiple Windows systems. The patches would address multiple critical ActiveX and Windows Media File loop holes that could invite hackers malicious attacks.