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Article | 13/01/2010 Facebook tracks your every move, employee claims
Facebook is tracking your every move on the site -- or so says one purported Facebook employee, according to an anonymous interview with the Rumpus. I...
Article | 13/01/2010 Mobile malware will test Android and iPhone
2009 ushered in mobile malware with the first (and second) iPhone worm appearing just before Christmas.
Article | 12/01/2010 Facebook CEO challenges the social norm of privacy
Lost in the flurry of products announcements at last week's Consumer Electronics Show was Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's suggestion on Friday that som...
Article | 6/01/2010 Y2K all over again in 2010?
A decade after the Y2K crisis, date changes still pose technology problems, making some security software upgrades difficult and locking millions of b...
Article | 19/12/2009 White House cyber czar and other security non-events of '09
A new administration in Washington this year was expected to herald sweeping changes on the national cybersecurity front.
Article | 17/12/2009 Five things you need to know about social engineering
Social engineering, the act of tricking people into giving up sensitive information, is nothing new. Convicted hacker Kevin Mitnick made a name for hi...
Article | 3/12/2009 Why privacy concerns are ruining Facebook
Facebook was built as a powerful social connector, allowing users to befriend others with similar interests, locations, schools, and more.
Article | 3/12/2009 Black screen of death: A lesson in FUD
The reports of the Windows "black screen of death" seem to be greatly exaggerated and hardly worth mentioning.
Article | 2/12/2009 Safer online shopping: eight tips
The holiday season is upon us, and now more than ever that means shopping on the Internet.
Article | 13/11/2009 Protect your PCs from Windows 7's zero-day exploit
It was a notable accomplishment when Windows 7 was not impacted in any way by the vulnerabilities addressed in the six Security Bulletins released by ...
Article | 12/11/2009 Facebook invasion: Beware of new 'smart' worm
Hot on the heels of a reported hijacking of hundreds of Facebook groups, a new variation on an old worm is crawling its way into the social network's ...
Article | 12/11/2009 Microsoft Patch Tuesday: What You Need to Know
Yesterday was Microsoft's Patch Tuesday for the month of November. There are 6 new Security Bulletins this month: 3 rated as Critical and 3 rated as I...
Article | 2/11/2009 2009: The year your data died
For a while there it looked like 2009 would be remembered as the Year of the Dead Celebrity. But Michael, Farrah, Walter, Ed, and all the rest may hav...
Article | 31/10/2009 Lost: A $49,000 laptop computer
About fifteen years ago, my husband and his colleague had their laptop computers stolen out of a car. They were fearful of reporting the incident to t...
Article | 26/10/2009 Trend Micro CEO: hackers hitting AV infrastructure
It's become an all-too-common scam: A legitimate Web site pops up a window that looks just like a real security warning. It says there's something wro...
Article | 16/10/2009 Why Security Matters Now
Social networking and cloud computing threats abound, our annual Global Information Security Survey finds, making information security important once ...
Article | 12/10/2009 Researchers advise cyber self defense in the cloud
Security researchers are warning that Web-based applications are increasing the risk of identity theft or losing personal data more than ever before.
Article | 8/10/2009 Careless downloading makes BlackBerry users spy targets
IPhone lovers and other smartphone users should take heed: A security researcher showed ways to spy on a BlackBerry user during a presentation Wednesd...
Article | 8/10/2009 Citing cybercrime, FBI director doesn't bank online
The head of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has stopped banking online after nearly falling for a phishing attempt.
Article | 7/10/2009 Windows attack code out, but not being used
It has been a week since hackers released software that could be used to attack a flaw in Windows Vista and Server 2008, but Microsoft and security co...

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