US talkshow host Jay Leno, singer Madonna, actress Cameron Diaz and President Barack Obama share an unpleasant secret their publicists are powerless to do anything about.
John E Dunn |
15 Jul |
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The founder of the social network decided to get a little antisocial on another service. Facebook CEO <a href="https://plus.google.com/106274577860630658862/posts">Mark Zuckerberg</a> and Google's <a href="https://plus.google.com/106189723444098348646/posts">Larry Page</a> and <a href="https://plus.google.com/109813896768294978296/posts">Sergey Brin</a> all elected to up their privacy settings on Google+.
Paul Suarez |
14 Jul |
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A new feature from Google for Google Voice takes the power of the "Report Spam" button and multiplies it exponentially. Google is applying the collected data from thousands of <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/204220/gmail_voice_promises_affordable_calling.html">Google Voice users</a> to automatically identify telemarketers and other unwanted calls and send them directly into the spam folder.
Tony Bradley |
14 Jul |
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The curtain has fallen on the 50 day performance by hacker group LulzSec. Its campaign of mayhem and destruction, peppered with witty commentary captivated the world.
In an alternate universe where Lulzcats reign and anti-security is the norm, it might have even earned a spot on its first target, The X-Factor. But on this earth its members may still be captured by its later targets: the CIA, US law enforcement and the FBI.
Liam Tung |
12 Jul |
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Former Manchester United and Real Madrid football player David Beckham has become the latest celebrity to find himself on the receiving end of a website defacement.
John E Dunn |
12 Jul |
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Most statistical information about online crime comes from vendors trying to flog products and governments eager for new police powers. We need something better. A lot better.
Stilgherrian |
12 Jul |
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Microsoft on Saturday disabled the search tool on its Safety & Security Center after attackers poisoned results with links to pornographic URLs.
Gregg Keizer |
12 Jul |
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Code that exploits two iPhone flaws to allow people to jailbreak their devices could, ironically, force security-conscious users to use the vulnerabilities to jailbreak their own iPhones and apply a third-party patch.
Robert Lemos |
09 Jul |
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News Corp. will close its weekly U.K. newspaper News of the World amid allegations that the tabloid hacked into the mobile voicemail accounts of celebrities, the British royal family, and crime victims.
Grant Gross |
08 Jul |
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While Google's new social network, Google+, is barely a week old, it's already received a lot of attention from tech pundits and the social media community. And as with any new online service, understanding how to control your information is essential.
Kristin Burnham |
07 Jul |
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Google's new social networking site Google+, built to beat Facebook primarily on privacy features, has several privacy bugs the company is working to fix.
Juan Carlos Perez |
07 Jul |
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The Twitter account of PayPal U.K. was hacked late Tuesday and used to post messages attacking the online payment processing company.
John Ribeiro |
06 Jul |
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A consortium of eight companies launched a campaign on Tuesday to provide better training for law enforcement agencies in order to tackle cybercrime, which costs the U.K. economy tens of billions of pounds annually.
Jeremy Kirk |
06 Jul |
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An official Fox News Twitter account falsely reported that President Barack Obama had been assassinated after hackers gained access to the account early Monday. The phony messages were posted to the Fox News Politics Twitter account sometime before 2:30 a.m. Eastern Monday and were still live more than five hours later. The account has more than 33,000 followers. A group calling itself the Script Kiddies claimed responsibility for the hack, according to <a href="http://thenextweb.com/media/2011/07/04/hackers-claim-fox-news-twitter-account-report-fake-obama-shooting/">The Next Web</a>.
Ian Paul |
06 Jul |
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Mobile payments technology is a loud sonic boom thundering through the payments industry. But are all -- or any -- of these payment schemes compliant with the <a href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/519563/the-great-pci-security-debate-of-2010-transcribed">Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS?)</a>
George V. Hulme |
05 Jul |
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The Twitter account for Fox News was apparently hacked, with six tweets falsely reporting early Monday morning that U.S. President Barack Obama had been shot twice in an Iowa restaurant while campaigning.
Jeremy Kirk |
04 Jul |
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A popular Twitter-like service in China with <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/227714/chinaand8217s_sina_benefits_from_surge_in_microblogging.html">140 million users</a> was hit by a worm earlier this week that resembles past attacks that infected Twitter and MySpace, according to a security analyst.
Michael Kan |
30 Jun |
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After nearly four chaotic years, Australia's internet filtering scheme is finally coming together in a way that makes sense technically and politically, if not necessarily for effective child protection.
Stilgherrian |
30 Jun |
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Since 1997 identity theft and fraud has affected more than 5.4 million people in the United States. And that number is on the rise with, more than 1.3 million complaints to the <a href="http://www.ftc.gov/sentinel/">Consumer Sentinel Network</a> (CSN) between January and December of 2009 alone. <a href="http://www.ftc.gov/sentinel/reports/sentinel-annual-reports/sentinel-cy2009.pdf">According to the Federal Trade Commission</a> (PDF), of the 721,418 fraud-related complaints to the CSN in 2009, this has cost customers [of various products and services] more than 1.7 billion dollars at a median payout of $399. But what can companies do to prevent fraud and identity theft?
James Mulroy |
30 Jun |
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Enterprise product in the making and ‘loved’ by disbanded hacker group LulzSec.
The constant and very real threat of distributed denial of service
(DDoS) attacks aimed at headline grabbing “hacker” groups, such as
Lulz Security and Anonymous, have helped one tech start-up pick up new
business.
Liam Tung |
28 Jun |
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