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Personal Info on Goldman Sachs CEO, NYPD Officer Leaked
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-09-28
As Operation "Occupy Wall Street" moved into the second week, some protesters are moving their activities online.
A group using the handle "CabinCr3w" posted personal
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Senators Question OnStar Policy on Data Collection
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-09-26
Senators Al Franken (D-Minn.), Chris Coons (D-DE) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) are questioning the recent announcement by General Motors subsidiary, OnStar, that it would continue
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Mac Trojan Masquerades as Chinese-Language PDF File
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-09-25
Researchers have analyzed a new piece of malware that masquerades as a PDF document and executed malicious code when opened. What makes this Trojan unusual is that it targets Macs.
Sophos and F-Secure discovered the Trojan, which uses a "double extension" trick where a second file extension is added to
Microsoft Revokes Gold Partner for Running Cold-Call Scams
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-09-22
As a scam, it's fairly common for cyber-criminals to cold-call unsuspecting users to inform them of problems with their computers. Sometimes the callers claim to be Microsoft or one of the major PC vendors. More often, it is a company who claims to be a Microsoft partner or a company
Dutch CA Files for Bankruptcy After Security Breach
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-09-21
Dutch certificate authority DigiNotar has closed its doors, less than a month after news broke about the security breach in which fake digital certificates were issued for
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FTC Workshop to Address Privacy, Facial Recognition
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-09-19
The Federal Trade Commission is planning to hold a workshop to examine how increased use of facial recognition technology impacts consumer privacy and security. Facial recognition
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Cyber-Attackers Leak Intelligence Officials' Names, Addresses
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-09-19
Less than 48 hours after a national security organization released a report on cyber-threats and defenses, attackers breached its Website and posted the membership list on
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SpyEye Trojan Variant Targets Android Devices
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-09-14
The SpyEye Trojan has evolved yet again, as the latest version can intercept Short Message Service texts from compromised Android smartphones.
Dubbed "Spitmo," the new variant is
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Microsoft Accidentally Releases September Patch Tuesday Bulletins
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-09-09
Someone over at Microsoft is a little trigger-happy on the "publish" button, it seems. The software giant published the details of the bulletins for the upcoming Patch Tuesday
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Anonymous Defaces Texas Police Website After Latest Arrests
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-09-02
It seems Anonymous and law enforcement authorities are busy one-upping each other. Someone gets arrested, the hacktivist collective expresses its anger by defacing yet
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WikiLeaks Battles Leaked Password, DDoS Attacks
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-09-01
It has not been a good week for WikiLeaks, what with its documents being leaked and its being hit by a denial of service attack from Anonymous. Oh, the irony.
Earlier this week,
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Apache Patches "Apache Killer" DoS Bug
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-08-30
Apache has patched its Web server software to close the vulnerability that could result in a denial of service attack disabling the server.
Apache 2.2.20 released Aug. 30 plugs the hole used by
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Zscaler Finds Gmail Phishing Website
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-08-27
Security researchers at Zscaler recently came across a phishing Website masquerading as a Gmail login page. Unless users are very vigilant, they can easily be tricked by the page, according to
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Twitter Joins Mandatory HTTPS Club
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-08-24
Twitter has announced it will begin to turn on HTTPS by default for all users. This is good news, as Web services need to start protecting their users from man-in-the-middle attacks.
Twitter rolled out HTTPS to its users earlier this year, but made it an optional setting. Users concerned about security
Serious Cryptographic Bug Fixed in PHP
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-08-23
The PHP Group has fixed the serious bug in the cryptographic function in PHP 5.3.7 and pushed out the fix a day later in the latest PHP 5.3.8.
The PHP Group released PHP 5.3.7 on Aug. 18, but developers were told to not upgrade to that version after the bug
