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Raising user awareness about privacy issues

In this age of social networks, discovering personal information about users has become increasingly easy to do, and that information can be misused at a later date for …

Facebook deceived developers and users with Verified Apps program

The privacy settlement that the US Federal Trade Commission and Facebook agreed on last November has been finalized on Friday and, unlike Google earlier that week, Facebook …

What’s so special about Gauss?

Kaspersky Lab experts have recently notified the world of the existence of another piece of malware that seems to have come from the same workshop(s) that pushed out Stuxnet, …

Microsoft and NYPD unveil new centralized surveillance system

New York City and Microsoft have joined forces and developed a new computer system that aggregates and analyzes the information gathered through a number of public safety data …

Scientists create algorithm for tracking down sources of online attacks

One of the problems when it comes to catching online criminals of any kind is the fact that it is often extremely difficult to pinpoint the origins of internet attacks – …

Bogus “MS Cyber-Crime Department” warnings lead to phishing

Emails purportedly sent by the Microsoft Cyber-Crime Department warning all Internet users that their email account may be deleted from the “world email server” …

Nationwide phishing emails hit inboxes

Customers of Nationwide Building Society, a British mutual financial institution and the largest building society in the world, are being targeted with phishing emails …

Blizzard confirms hack, urges users to change passwords

Blizzard’s CEO Mike Morhaime has confirmed in a letter that the company’s internal network has been breached this week. The “unauthorized and illegal …

Nepalese government websites serving backdoor

Two websites belonging to the Nepalese government have been injected with malicious code that tries to take advantage of a Java vulnerability (CVE-2012-0507) in order to …

Defense contractor targeted with “sexy” spam carrying malware

Targeted spam campaigns take many forms and take advantage a variety of natural human responses and feelings such as curiosity, fear, or lust. This last one spotted bet on the …

Microsoft confirms IE10 will have “Do Not Track” on by default

When Microsoft released the preview of Internet Explorer 10 at the beginning of June and announced that in Windows 8 the browser will be sending a “Do Not Track” …

eBay’s security efforts lead to massive fraud drop and 3K arrests

eBay, the notable online auction and shopping mammoth website and the company that runs it, has taken the fraud threat seriously and has managed to cut it by 90 percent in the …

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