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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Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
This is a great list of 65 open source projects to replace various security applications that you are probably running right now. I personally use most of them and it's great to see such a thorough list like this posted all in one place.
Source:
http://www.datamation.com/security/65-open-source-replacements-for-security-software-1.html
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Wednesday, February 29th, 2012
HTTPS Everywhere is a produced as a collaboration between The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Many sites on the web offer some limited support for encryption over HTTPS, but make it difficult to use. For instance, they may default to unencrypted HTTP, or fill encrypted pages with links ...
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Saturday, January 28th, 2012
Attackers have developed a new way to infect your PC through email -- without forcing you to click on an attachment. According to researchers at eleven, a German security firm, the new drive-by spam automatically downloads malware when am email is opened in the email client. The user doesn't have ...
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Sunday, January 8th, 2012
Google has released a beta version of its Chrome 17 browser that scans for malicious downloads, which may help tackle scareware threats. The browser will issue a warning to discard a file when a user attempts to download a known bad file or if the file comes from a ...
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