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Color a Potential Spammers' Heaven?
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-04-04
If you are even remotely concerned about online privacy, you might reconsider using the Color mobile application, as it is worthless if you aren't willing to share your location information.
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Silverpop Breach Monetized as Fake Adobe Reader Updates
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-04-03
Silverpop attackers are finally beginning to monetize the customer data they stole last fall from the email marketing company. The spam campaign using email addresses stolen
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BBC Website Outage Not a DDOS Attack
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-03-30
Nowadays, any kind of unexpected Website downtime seems to bring out the Chicken Little in all of us. Instead of "The sky is falling!" we shout, "It's a DDOS attack!"
All of BBC's Websites were offline for about an hour late in the evening on March 29 with many of its
StartupBritain Serves Up Fake AV On Launch
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-03-29
A government-backed Website for entrepreneurs directed users to a site hosting fake antivirus the day it launched.
The site, Startup Britain, redirected Internet Explorer visitors to fake
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McAfee.com Full of Unfixed Security Vulnerabilities
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-03-28
Here is another for the "Security flaws can happen to anyone" files. Security researchers have found a number of Web site vulnerabilities on McAfee.com that can lead to cross-site
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MySQL.com Hacked by SQL Injection Attack
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-03-27
It doesn't get any more ironic than this. The Web site for Oracle's open source database MySQL has been hacked...by a SQL injection attack.
Oracle's MySQL.com customer Web site was
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Facebook Not Testing A Search Box
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-03-25
If you are seeing a new search box on the top of Facebook pages, the company thinks you may be infected by some kind of malware.
Images of a Facebook page with two search boxes surfaced March 24 on AllFacebook.com prompting speculation about the social networking giant's potential foray into search.
Goldman Sachs Programmer Sentenced 8 Years for Intellectual Property Theft
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-03-20
The former Goldman Sachs computer programmer was sentenced to eight years in prison for stealing proprietary code used by the Wall Street bank's
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Congress Probes DoD and NSA Over HBGary Federal Contracts
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-03-17
When former HBGary Federal CEO Aaron Barr bragged to the Financial Times about having unmasked the "leaders" of the hacktivist Anonymous in February, he probably had no idea what he
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YouTube, Amazon, ESPN Blocked by U.S. Military
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-03-16
YouTube has been blocked again. Not by a government regime intent on shutting down demonstrators, but by the United States military to free up bandwidth.
The U.S. Pacific Command
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Anonymity on Internet Is Critical to Creativity, Says 4chan Founder
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-03-15
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has long been an advocatedfor users to have one identity online, and to tie all interactions to that identity. It encourages users to
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Apple iPad 2 Jailbroken Within Days of Launch
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-03-14
It didn't take long for iPhone developer and hacker Comex to jailbreak the Apple iPad 2. An image showing an iPad 2 running Cydia, a Debian package management system for the iOS, surfaced online a mere two days after the new tablet launched.
Cydia is a software application that allows users
Small Credit Union Targeted by Phishing Campaign
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-03-11
Cyber-criminals are equal opportunity attackers, as they are just as likely to target customers of smaller regional banks and credit unions as they are to go after large banks and
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Trojan Piggybacks on Anti-Phishing Tool
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-03-10
There have been hints over the past few months that malware authors collaborate on code just like legitimate application developers. First, there was the merged code between Zeus and SpyEye.
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Hackers DDOS Women's Web Site
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-03-09
The International Women's Day Web site was bombarded with a distributed denial-of-service attack for most of March 8.
Let's break that statement down a bit. March 8 was International Women's Day, and
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