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Article | 26/09/2009 Twitter is dead
It is my sad news this morning to report the demise of the world's most famous microblog. Twitter, we hardly knew ye.
Article | 28/08/2009 Facebook to tighten privacy after Canadian investigation
Facebook will enhance its social-networking site's privacy features over the next 12 months as a result of a set of recommendations from the Canadian ...
Article | 28/08/2009 Facebook, Twitter provide sensitive info for criminals
Social networking services like Facebook and Twitter foster a false sense of security and lead users to share information which can be used by cybercr...
Article | 27/08/2009 Smart phones the new security frontier: Kaspersky Lab
Absent-minded people who lose their smart phones have had a win and thieves who steal mobile devices have had another setback, with the Singapore laun...
Article | 25/08/2009 Is your PC bot-infested? here's how to tell
As fireworks boomed on the Fourth of July, thousands of compromised computers attacked U.S. government Web sites. A botnet of more than 200,000 comput...
Article | 7/08/2009 Why attack Twitter?
Twitter and Facebook were hit today with denial-of-service attacks that can knock a site offline, but don't steal information or cause permanent damag...
Article | 5/08/2009 LimeWire chairman: P2P concerns overblown
Lime Group Chairman Mark Gorton found himself in the hot seat last week during a hearing on the problem of inadvertent data leaks on peer-to-peer (P2P...
Article | 1/08/2009 iPhone virus: What you need to know
The iPhone's security flaws were laid bare at the Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas yesterday, and now the smartphone-clutching public has boiled itse...
Article | 28/07/2009 10 ways your voice and data can be spied on
Attackers seeking to do harm or mischief to networks work with an ever expanding arsenal of tools that sometimes seem to be the stuff of spy fiction, ...
Article | 23/07/2009 A look at cloud computing's dark lining
Unless you've been living in a cave all summer like one of my friends (it's in Finland, he's an artistic genius) you've probably heard the buzz about ...
Article | 27/07/2009 DNS remains vulnerable one year after Kaminsky bug
A year has passed since security researcher Dan Kaminsky disclosed a serious flaw in the DNS that makes it possible for hackers to launch cache poison...
Article | 23/07/2009 Twitter: a growing security minefield
In June, the world watched as tweets from the streets of Tehran flooded Twitter. Frequent Twitter users--and people who hadn't even heard of the micro...
Article | 21/07/2009 Could you be hacked like Twitter?
The French hacker who broke into Twitter's Google Apps and stole more than 300 private company documents has revealed in detail how he did it.
Article | 21/07/2009 McAfee updates managed cloud security service
McAfee's latest version of its managed security service includes new features that let companies scan their Web sites for vulnerabilities as well as c...
Article | 18/07/2009 The NSA wiretapping story that nobody wanted
They sometimes call national security the third rail of politics. Touch it and, politically, you're dead.
Article | 17/07/2009 Microsoft sues mobile ringtone company for phishing, spam
Microsoft has sued a Hong Kong seller of mobile ringtones, saying the company used phishing techniques to flood Microsoft Live Messenger users with sp...
Article | 16/07/2009 In Pictures: Kaspersky Lab 10th Annual Press Tour
On 26 June, Kaspersky Lab held its 10th annual Virus Analysts Summit in Dubrovnik, Croatia. At the event the company's chief security researchers disc...
Article | 13/07/2009 Invisible IPv6 traffic poses serious network threat
IPv6 -- the next-generation Internet protocol -- isn't keeping too many U.S. CIOs and network managers up worrying at night. But perhaps it should.
Article | 15/07/2009 Latest malware trick: outsourcing quality assurance
Creators of Waledac malware enlisted the Conficker botnet as a tool to spread malware of their own, marking the first time Conficker was made availabl...
Article | 15/07/2009 Oracle issues big security patch update
Oracle on Tuesday released its latest quarterly patch update, which includes 10 security fixes for its database and also addresses a range of vulnerab...

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