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API bug responsible for Zuckerberg page hack

When at first Facebook didn’t issue a statement about what really happened on Mark Zuckerberg’s fan page and how someone managed to post a message in his name …

Worrying increase in surveillance across Europe

A landmark EU-wide study of national privacy safeguards shows a decline in privacy protection across Europe and a steep increase in state surveillance over the lives of …

A step towards wider SSL implementation

Two great stumbling blocks on the path leading to a Web-wide implementation of the SSL/TLS protocols have always been cost and speed. So far, the great majority of websites …

An increase in form-based e-mail phishing attacks

Luring people in with the promise of hefty tax refunds and “stimulus payments”, phishers have been targeting users with e-mails purportedly coming from HM Revenue …

Facebook adds secure browsing and social authentication

The “social CAPTCHA” method of authentication that Facebook developed to prevent the Tunisian government to access the accounts of the people whose login …

LogLogic Compliance Manager 2.0 released

LogLogic released Compliance Manager 2.0 which provides users with an executive view into an enterprise’s compliance posture and reduces the time and costs required to …

New storage system for field forensic investigators

Guidance Software announced a new compact, easily transportable storage system that gives forensic investigators the storage capacity they need to handle large cases in the …

Cisco to acquire Pari Networks

Cisco announced its intent to acquire privately-held Pari Networks, a provider of network configuration and change management (NCCM) and compliance management solutions that …

Protesters organize via social networks, governments move to block them

The wave of nation-wide protests that ended in the Tunisian president Ben Ali’s run to Saudi Arabia was at least in part made possible by the organizers’ use of …

Conficker: Lessons learnt

The Conficker worm is the largest computer worm infection with more than seven million government, business and home computers in over 200 countries now under its control. In …

Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page hacked

An unknown hacker broke into the 26-year-old internet celebrity’s Facebook account and posted a bizarre message calling upon the firm to adopt a social cause: “Let …

Riskiest social media applications

The fastest growing threat to corporate networks is web-based social media applications, according to WatchGuard security researchers. These applications can seriously …

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