Stories about: FaceTime

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    Twitter now blocking bad URLs, but imperfectly 04/08/2009 05:23:00

    Hoping to deal with a growing problem, Twitter has quietly introduced a feature to prevent users from posting links to malicious Web sites. But security experts say that it can be easily circumvented.
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    Spammers cashing in on Twitter, Iran, new iPhone 19/06/2009 08:37:00

    Spammers are never far from a hot story, it seems, and in the past day they've been flooding Twitter with phoney messages about Iran and the latest iPhone 3.0 operating system.
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    Notorious adware vendor Zango shuts its doors 21/04/2009 08:02:00

    Zango, the adware distributor fined US$3 million by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in 2006 for sneaking software onto people's PCs, has closed its doors after being acquired by video search engine blinx.
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    MySpace users struggle to overcome cybervandalism 01/07/2008 07:46:48

    One of the first social networking upstarts, MySpace, is facing continuing security problems that threaten to spoil many of the innovative features that make the site useful.
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    The darker side of Webmail 29/04/2008 10:02:55

    Web-based e-mail is booming. Services such as Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Hotmail are convenient, accessible and, best of all, free. Many of us have come to rely on them without giving it a second thought.
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    MySpace hack reveals profile visitors 18/04/2008 12:10:34

    A security problem with MySpace has the potential to botch up law-enforcement efforts to track bad actors on the social-networking site.
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    Taking down teen hackers 11/04/2008 12:44:25

    While the problem of teen hacking remains a serious concern -- as highlighted in this previous post on the topic -- infiltrating the networks of kids involved in such activity, taking down their malware distribution Web sites, and convincing them to get out of the cyber-criminal game can be relatively easy, according to FaceTime Labs researcher Chris Boyd, better known in online circles under his Paper Ghost screen name.
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    FaceTime security product scans Skype's encrypted IM 26/03/2008 09:36:41

    Security vendor FaceTime Communications has released the only security product on the market allowed to look at encrypted instant messages sent between Skype users.
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    Glory hunter hacks MySpace pages of Timberlake, Hilary Duff 10/12/2007 08:30:39

    Several celebrity MySpace.com sites were defaced Wednesday by someone hoping to impress a hacker crew, a security researcher said Friday, a motivation of yore that harks back to when hackers sought notoriety rather than credit card numbers.
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    MySpace problems began days before Alicia Keys hack 12/11/2007 08:11:19

    The widely reported problems with pop singer Alicia Keys' MySpace profile have been cropping up on the social networking site for the past ten days and are likely to continue, a security expert said Friday.
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    Hackers sneak tricks into MySpace band pages 01/11/2007 05:38:21

    Several band profiles on MySpace have been hacked to serve up some nasty tricks, according to security vendor FaceTime Communications.
 
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