Thursday, April 17th, 2008
PayPal says allowing customers to make financial transactions on unsafe browsers "is equal to a car manufacturer allowing drivers to buy one of their vehicles without seat belts."
PayPal, one of the brands most spoofed in phishing attacks, is working on a plan to block its users from making transactions from ...
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Websense Security Labs research has uncovered a case where a museum's compromised Web server is serving malicious code based on the referrer making the request. A referrer could be, for example, a search engine such as images.google.com.
As interesting as the fact that they're doing this, however, is which referrers trigger ...
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
The SANS Institute has uncovered what they've termed a "rare gem" as far as computer security investigations go that sheds new light on how up to 20,000 Web sites have been hacked since January.
They found a sneaky software tool that uses Google's search engine to hunt for Web sites running ...
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
You may think that you are anonymous as you browse web sites, but pieces of information about you are always left behind. You can reduce the amount of information revealed about you by visiting legitimate sites, checking privacy policies, and minimizing the amount of personal information you provide.
What information is ...
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
A security problem with MySpace has the potential to botch up law-enforcement efforts to track bad actors on the social-networking site.
An increasing number of MySpace profiles contain a few lines of code that automatically subscribe people to the profile's video channel, said Chris Boyd, security research manager for FaceTime Communications.
After ...
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