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| » How Exposed Are You To Identity Fraud? |
| Seeing that there a lot of people who are worried about identity theft, identity fraud, account rackets, phishing expeditions, Trojan swindling schemes, and many other related cyber scams, it's time t... |
| 12 June 2009 |
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| » Study Shows Employees Bypass Network Security Regulations |
| New research conducted by the Ponemon Institute reveals a severe lack of enforcement and awareness of security regulations within companies nowadays.... |
| 12 June 2009 |
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| » Chinese Censorship Filter Rife with Security Holes |
| Net privacy activists and security watchers alike warn that China's scheme to use locally developed censorware may backfire because of the critical security hazards it poses.
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| 12 June 2009 |
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| » VSE 8.7i Patch Failure Downplayed by McAfee |
| About a week ago, a McAfee service pack did more harm than good to several computer systems by making them outright unbootable once it's installed. The support forum of the company is now trying its b... |
| 11 June 2009 |
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| » Hacker Challenge Proves StrongWebmail Wrong |
| StrongWebmail has finally conceded that a group of non-criminal hackers has defeated its security system challenge and won a total of $10,000.
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| 11 June 2009 |
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| » Crypto Attack Finds Chinks in Algorithm's Armor |
| Cryptographers from Sydney, Australia have found a way to break the SHA-1 digital-signature algorithm.... |
| 11 June 2009 |
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| » Breaking News: Twittering Could Get You Burglarized |
| An overenthusiastic Twitter user tweeted about going out of town, which may or may not have led to his residence getting burglarized.... |
| 10 June 2009 |
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| » Apple IT Security in Dire Straits |
| A renowned security expert claims that Apple is currently struggling to sufficiently protect its customers from malware, phishing, and other hacker shenanigans.... |
| 10 June 2009 |
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| » ISP Denies Passwords Cause of Disastrous Hack |
| A web host director adamantly maintains that the hack that wiped out data for more than 100,000 web pages was not caused by poor server configurations and password management.
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| 10 June 2009 |
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| » Latest DOS Attacks Endanger Mobile Data Networks |
| Last week, a senior telecoms security researcher cautioned that a new and evolved type of Denial of Service attack is currently threatening the safety of worldwide mobile data network security.... |
| 09 June 2009 |
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| » Hacking Scam Yield Hacker $112,000 Total Earnings |
| A hacker from Hampton, New Hampshire was convicted of fraud charges for his scam to use trojans to empty the brokerage accounts on his targets' PCs.... |
| 09 June 2009 |
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| » China Mandates PCs to have Web Filter |
| China is planning to expand its stiff web filter policy by requiring all personal computers sold to it to have software that blocks entry into certain web portals by July 1 of this year.... |
| 09 June 2009 |
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| » The Safeness of Internet Voting |
| Last year, Arizona became one of the pioneers of using the Internet to accept and tally electoral votes online. However, it does beg the question of whether or not that's a good idea.
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| 08 June 2009 |
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| » Hackers Breach UK Communist Site |
| Long story short, the official webpage of the Communist Party of Britain has been breached by either Chinese or Russian hackers and infected with malware.... |
| 08 June 2009 |
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| » Twitter's Trending Topics Exploited By Enterprising Hackers |
| Hackers are currently taking advantage of yet another popular Twitter trend and using it to spread malicious links and other forms of cyber attacks.... |
| 08 June 2009 |
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| » Is the Nationwide Cyber Security Threat Overstated? |
| Is hacking really the newest terrorist threat to hit the United States, or is the government merely blowing the issue out of proportion in order to get their budgets approved and authority expanded?... |
| 07 June 2009 |
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| » Sears Settles in Regards to Spyware Charges |
| Sears, one of the biggest American retailers on the planet, has agreed to settle the lawsuit submitted by federal authorities claiming that the company slipped spyware from ComScore onto its customers... |
| 07 June 2009 |
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| » Homeland Security Advisory Council Has Hacker Member |
| Jeff Moss, the organizer and founder of the Defcon and Black Hat hacker and security conferences, was among the sixteen recruits that joined the Homeland Security Advisory Council on Friday.... |
| 07 June 2009 |
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| » Mega Patch Gift from Microsoft Next Week |
| On Thursday, Microsoft announced that it will send over ten security patches, fixes, and updates to repair serious vulnerabilities found within Microsoft propriety software by next week's time.... |
| 06 June 2009 |
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