"We regret to inform our fans that Derek Jeter will miss the rest of the season with sexual reassignment surgery. He promises to come back stronger than ever in 2013 as Minnie Mantlez."
John P. Mello Jr. |
03 Aug |
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Denizens of the digital world are feeling a little less secure this week as another edition of the Black Hat hacker conference wrapped up in Las Vegas.
John P. Mello Jr. |
28 Jul |
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Pinterest, the third-most visited social networking site on the Web, "has become the social media platform of choice among criminals," according to a report from Trend Micro, a security software firm.
John P. Mello Jr. |
26 Jul |
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Mozilla has closed a security hole in its Firefox browser that could expose information from secure websites to anyone gaining access to the software.
John P. Mello Jr. |
19 Jul |
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Facebook has quickly pulled a feature it launched Sunday that allowed mobile users of the social network to find fellow members who may be nearby.
John P. Mello Jr. |
26 Jun |
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A security flaw in Internet Explorer is triggering messages in some users’ Gmail accounts that they may be the target of an attack from a nation-state.
John P. Mello Jr. |
14 Jun |
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It has been 18 months since more than 188,000 passwords for subscribers to Gawker were snatched by hackers and posted to the Web, but consumers don't seem any more inclined to protect their passwords now than they were then.
John P. Mello Jr. |
10 Jun |
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A data breach at LinkedIn, the business-oriented social networking site, has spawned a spam campaign that tries to take advantage of users worried that their passwords were among the 6.46 million posted on the Internet.
John P. Mello Jr. |
07 Jun |
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Anyone who makes a habit of wandering around in cyberspace should print <a href="http://blog.trendmicro.com/know-your-enemies-online">this TrendLabs infographic</a>, posted Wednesday, and keep it close at hand. This colorful web poster contains info on Internet bad guys, and helps people avoid getting scammed, hacked, or hurt by malware.
John P. Mello Jr. |
09 Feb |
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A new website launched by the hacker collective known as Anonymous is targeting the neo-Nazi movement in Germany.
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05 Jan |
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Hacker collective Anonymous and the drug cartel Los Zetas had a showdown, and the cartel blinked.
John P. Mello Jr. |
07 Nov |
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Surfing the web these days can be like navigating a minefield--you'd like to take some basic security precautions, but you have no idea where to start. Google's new resource, called "Good To Know," aims to be your starting place.
John P. Mello Jr. |
19 Oct |
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If you use your Android smartphone for both business and pleasure, a product introduced today at a trade show in Germany appears to be worth following. A version of Android called BizzTrust creates two partitions in Android--one for personal use and another super-secure one for business.
John P. Mello Jr. |
12 Oct |
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The computers used to control Predator and Raptor drones used in Afghanistan and other war zones have been reportedly infected by a virus that captures the keystrokes of the pilots operating the unmanned aircraft.
John P. Mello Jr. |
08 Oct |
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Researchers have discovered a new attack by a popular malware program, the <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/236562/spyeye_trojan_morphs_to_defeat_online_banking_defenses.html">SpyEye Trojan</a>, that is aimed at cracking security schemes that use text messaging to send confirmation codes to consumers so they can confirm transactions from their accounts.
John P. Mello Jr. |
07 Oct |
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