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When your system has been compromised, it’s safe to assume the worst. Here’s what the bad guys have in mind Written by Roger A. Grimes / Courtesy of InfoWorld In the good old days, most hacking was performed by young males looking to boost their self-esteem. Nowadays, almost all hacking and malware is carried out with criminal intent. Yet for some reason, people who get hacked or are...
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Apple ships Java update, malware scrubber after confirming attacks on own Macs And touts security moves that didn’t prevent Java exploits from hijacking engineers’ machines Written By Gregg Keizer / Courtesy of ComputerWorld.com Computerworld – The day it acknowledged company-owned Macs had been hacked using a “drive-by” Java exploit, Apple on Tuesday patched the...
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Oracle releases patch for Java after U.S. government warning Written by Hayley Tsukayama / Courtesy of The Washington Post Oracle said Sunday that it has released a patch for its Java software after a bug in the program opened users to malicious hacking. Security researchers first drew attention to the vulnerability last week, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security told its employees to...
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In its first big policy shift since Facebook bought the photo-sharing site, Instagram claims the right to sell users’ photos without payment or notification. Instagram says it has the right to sell your photos, and there’s no way to opt out Written by Declan McCullagh / Courtesy of CNET.com Instagram said today that it has the perpetual right to sell users’ photographs without...
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Written by Singyin Lee / Courtesy of Honkiat.com In today’s technology-powered world, everything from our emails, social networking sites to our Internet banking details is protected by invisible walls built on code, accessible by us with a string of characters, also known as the password. As technology continues to better (and plague) our lives, it has become inevitable that our information...
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Written by Valli Meenakshi Ramanathan / Courtesy of IBTimes.com A new study conducted by Microsoft dubbed Operation b70, from August 2011, shows that several computers carry malware installed in the factory, BBC News reported. As part of efforts to determine security in its supply chain, the company undertook a study, when its employees brought 10 laptops and 10 desktops from stores located at...
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Go Daddy-serviced Web sites go down; hacker takes credit One hacker claims responsibility for an outage affecting sites for which Go Daddy provides hosting and DNS services. Written by Elinor Mills / Courtesy of cnet.com Web sites serviced by DNS and hosting provider Go Daddy were down today. A hacker using the “Anonymous Own3r” Twitter account claimed credit for the outage. “Go...
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Check out the following from ArsTechnica article regarding how easy it can be for someone to hack into a wireless network that is not configured securely. Very good to keep in mind to prevent unauthorized access to your network and data. How I cracked my neighbor’s WiFi password without breaking a sweat Readily available tools make cracking easier. Last week’s feature...
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FBI actions mean 350,000 computers – all infected with the “DNSchanger” malware – will be cut off from the Internet on July 9, 2012. Does this sound like science fiction at best or a scam at worst? Well, it’s neither. Keep reading to hear the crazy story behind the FBI and the DNSChanger trojan, and what you can do to make sure your Internet will keep working. Once upon a time, a...
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Phishing sites that are active for only an hour? Welcome to the new scam world. Google adds a staggering 9,500 new websites every day to its running list of malicious Internet destinations so the company can warn end users before they visit the sites, a member of the company’s security team said. “These are either innocent websites that have been compromised by malware authors, or...
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‘Presidential alerts’ to be mandatory for all cellphone users Apple’s eagerly awaited iOS 6 update for iPhones and iPads will include controversial ‘government alerts’ that some fear are part of the federal government’s takeover of communications networks. “In compliance with the National Alerting Program, the WEA will be coming to Apple devices that will run on the new mobile OS...
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Article written by Kim Zetter / Courtesy of Wired.com It’s a scenario security researchers have long worried about, a man-in-the-middle attack that allows someone to impersonate Microsoft Update to deliver malware — disguised as legitimate Microsoft code — to unsuspecting users. And that’s exactly what turns out to have occurred with the recent Flame cyberespionage tool that has been...
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In this presentation courtesy of TedTalks, Gary Kovacs, CEO of Mozilla Corporation, discusses the subject of privacy on the Web. Even though people would like to believe the Internet is a private place, it is not. As you surf the Web, information is being collected about you. Web tracking is not 100% evil — personal data can make your browsing more efficient; cookies can help your...
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Written by David Kravets / Courtesy of Wired.com The House on Thursday approved cybersecurity legislation that privacy groups have decried as a threat to civil liberties. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, sponsored by Reps. Mike Rogers (R-Michigan) and Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Maryland), passed on a vote of 248 to 168. Its goal is a more secure internet, but privacy...
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Written By Kim Zetter / Courtesy of Wired.com In an effort to uncover the source of bomb threats sent to the University of Pittsburgh, agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation seized an entire server on Wednesday that is used by anonymous remailing service Mixmaster as well as several progressive rights groups. The server was seized from a co-location facility in New York with a search...
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