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Twitter supports “Do Not Track” option
The news was announced by Ed Felten, the US Federal Trade Commission's CTO, at a New York Internet Week privacy panel, and Twitter has quickly come out to confirm it: the popular micro-blogging servic...
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Facebook IPO advanced fee scam hitting inboxes
Today's the day when Facebook has officially become a publicly traded company, after founder Mark Zuckerberg rang the bell and officially opened trading on the Nasdaq exchange.
For months now, spec...
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MacScan 2.9.3 with Google Chrome and SeaMonkey support released
SecureMac released MacScan 2.9.3, which features tracking cookie detection and cleaning for Google’s Chrome browser.
MacScan is the premier Macintosh security program, protecting you against the ...
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Hacker jailed for targeting Call of Duty gamers
It's a bad week for British hackers as another youth has been handed a prison sentence.
20-year-old Lewys Martin from Kent is a repeat offender that, among other things, masqueraded a keylogging T...
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Worm targets Facebook users via PMs
A worm posing as a JPG image has seemingly been spotted propagating on Facebook and through various IM applications.
"We recently received reports about private messages found on Facebook and distr...
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Review: LOK-IT Secure Flash Drive
After a couple of years of research and development, LOK-IT was announced at the RSA Conference 2011 in San Francisco. The product boasted a unique concept of PIN-based hardware authentication. Later ...
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Spam with malicious attachments rising
While the volume of spam messages is falling, the number of messages containing malicious attachments increased, meaning that spam is growing more dangerous even as it becomes less prevalent, accordin...
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Password creation policies are the enemy of secure passphrases
Commenting on reports that a security developer has concluded that password-creation policies are the enemy of secure passwords, SecurEnvoy co-founder Steve Watts says that the fundamental issue is th...
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Malicious fake Android AV apps pushed onto users
It seems that every week a new way of targeting Android users with malware is discovered, and most often than not, Russian users are primary targets.
Sophos' researcher Vanja Svajcer followed links...
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Secure data on Android devices with SecureZIP
PKWARE announced SecureZIP Reader for Android, an application that secures enterprise and government data.
The SecureZIP Solution secures corporate information that end-users send to the cloud vi...
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Common Vulnerability Reporting Framework updated
The Industry Consortium for Advancement of Security on the Internet (ICASI) announced Common Vulnerability Reporting Framework (CVRF), Version 1.1. Enhancements offer users a more comprehensive and fl...
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Flashback botmasters earned less than $15K
It has already been established that the criminals behind the Flashback botnet were after money, but according to Symantec researchers, their plan was foiled by the attention that the first massive Ma...
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Anti-Anonymous hacker takes credit for The Pirate Bay DDoS
After 72 hours of being hit with an extensive DDoS attack and having been intermittently inaccessible to its visitors, The Pirate Bay and WikiLeaks are back online.
It was initially thought that An...
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Briton jailed for hacking a Facebook account
Gareth Crosskey, a 21-year-old from West Sussex who was arrested for hacking into a private Facebook account, has been handed down a prison sentence of 12 months by the Southwark Crown Court on Wednes...
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SSL governance and implementation across the Internet
Philippe Courtot, founder of the Trustworthy Internet Movement (TIM), and chairman and CEO of Qualys, talks about how the TIM has chosen SSL governance and implementation across the Internet as its fi...
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Most CCTV systems are easily accessible to attackers
The use of CCTV cameras for physical surveillance of all kinds of environments has become so pervasive that most of us don't give the devices a second thought anymore.
But, those individuals and ...
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How executives understand and manage IT risks
Corporate boards and executives are taking risk management seriously but there is still a gap in understanding the link between IT risks and enterprise risk management, according to a Carnegie Mellon ...
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A marathon of holiday spam
The main spam topics that emerged during the last quarter included the increase in spam during the holidays, mass mailings, malicious attachments and the distribution of phishing attacks, according to...
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Leveraging PCI standards to accept mobile payments securely
The PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) published a customized fact sheet outlining how merchants can securely accept payments using mobile devices such as smartphones or tablets.
The fact she...
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Content-related threats cause significant data loss
Content-layer threats – those where an attacker leverages malicious software in what the user believes is harmless content – are posing increasing risks for enterprise data loss according to new resea...
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