Tuesday, April 1st, 2014
Hackers posted names, e-mail addresses, message histories, and partially protected login credentials for more than 158,000 forum users of Boxee.tv, the Web-based television service that was acquired by Samsung last year, researchers said.
The breach occurred no later than last week, when a full copy of the purloined forum data became widely ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2014
It’s been well publicized that on April 8th, 2014 Microsoft discontinues product support for Windows XP. Released in 2001, the support policy for the life of Windows XP soon followed in October 2002. In September 2007, we announced that support for Windows XP would be extended an additional two years ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2014
With every website you visit, you’re vulnerable to malicious hackers out to steal your surfing history, passwords, email access, bank account numbers, medical info, and more. And the “big browsers” don’t do enough to stop it.
But now you can protect yourself before you go on the Web – with WhiteHat ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2014
There are various ways to protect a wireless network. Some are generally considered to be more secure than others. Some, such as WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy), were broken several years ago and are not recommended as a way to keep intruders away from private networks. Now, a new study published ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2014
Dubbed Operation Windigo, the attack has been ongoing for more than two and a half years and has compromised as many as 25,000 servers at one time, anti-virus vendor ESET said Tuesday. Systems infected with the backdoor Trojan are used in stealing credentials, redirecting Web traffic to malicious content and ...
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