Wednesday, June 6th, 2012
LinkedIn said today that some passwords on a list of allegedly stolen hashed passwords belong to its members, but did not say how its site was compromised.
"We can confirm that some of the passwords that were compromised correspond to LinkedIn accounts," Vicente Silveira, a director at the professional social networking ...
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Wednesday, June 6th, 2012
LinkedIn's iOS app is collecting information from calendar entries, including passwords and meeting notes, and transmitting it back to the company's servers without their knowledge, according two mobile security researchers.
The business-networking giant's app for Apple's iPad and iPhone has an opt-in feature that allows users to view their calendar entries ...
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Monday, June 4th, 2012
About 900 million Windows computers get their updates from Microsoft Update. In addition to the DNS root servers, this update system has always been considered one of the weak points of the net. Antivirus people have nightmares about a variant of malware spoofing the update mechanism and replicating via it.
Turns ...
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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012
The Nmap Project is pleased to announce the immediate, free availability of the Nmap Security Scanner version 6.00 from http://nmap.org/. It is the product of almost three years of work, 3,924 code commits, and more than a dozen point releases since the big Nmap 5 release in July 2009. Nmap ...
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Sunday, April 1st, 2012
Ever since I moved into this apartment complex I have received monthly emails from rentpayment.com (a service from YapStone) as a reminder to pay my rent with a handy "click here to pay" type of link included. Whenever I would click that link I would be immediately logged into the ...
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