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by mike2009 on 03. July 2009., 07:01:38 Eric Goldman alerts us to an appeals court ruling finding against a guy who claims that his firing was gender discrimination after the hospital he worked for found that he had been surfing porn and "hacking" sites. The guy's entire case seems like a huge stretch. In the department he worked for, there was one computer shared between 7 people, with this guy, David Farr, being the only guy. While each employee had a separate login,... 32 Views | 0 Replies
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by mike2009 on 03. July 2009., 06:58:10 Miscreants have developed one of most sophisticated click fraud malware applications to date. The Trojan code - dubbed FFsearcher by security firm SecureWorks - plugs into a Google API that allows webmasters to add a Google-powered search widget (called "Google Custom Search") to their website. In normal use, search results made via the widget are displayed alongside Google AdSense ads, with... 24 Views | 0 Replies
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by mike2009 on 03. July 2009., 06:51:20 Admit it: You are currently addicted to social networking. Your drug of choice might be Facebook or Twitter, or maybe Myspace or LinkedIn. Some of you are using all of the above, and using them hard, even IT security practitioners who know better. While it's impossible to escape every social networking threat out there, there are steps one can take to significantly... 34 Views | 0 Replies
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by mike2009 on 03. July 2009., 06:47:07 Cybercrime is rapidly spreading on Facebook as fraudsters prey on users who think the world's top social networking site is a safe haven on the Internet. Lisa Severens, a clinical trials manager from Worcester, Massachusetts, learned the hard way. A virus took control of her laptop and started sending pornographic photos to colleagues. "I was mortified about having to deal with it at... 23 Views | 0 Replies
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by mike2009 on 03. July 2009., 06:44:48 A new piece of malicious software has been discovered that cheats Google and potentially other search engines out of money. The Trojan horse perpetuates click fraud, a scam in which Web advertisements are clicked in excess or under misleading circumstances in order to generate revenue for those who own the Web pages the ads appear on. The malware, called "FFSearcher," is "one of... 17 Views | 0 Replies
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by mike2009 on 03. July 2009., 06:42:52 In addition to the beta release of its free consumer anti-malware software, Microsoft Security Essentials, Microsoft has, in the past week, unleashed five service packs for its enterprise class security software. These service packs include the beta 2 of its identity management framework "Geneva," the SP3 of Forefront Security for SharePoint, the SP2 of Forefront Security for... 28 Views | 0 Replies
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by mike2009 on 03. July 2009., 06:40:34 Apple Inc. is working to fix an iPhone vulnerability that could allow an attacker to remotely install and run unsigned software code with root access to the phone. The attack in question exploits a weakness in the way iPhones handle text messages received via SMS (Short Message Service), said security researcher Charlie Miller, during a presentation at the SyScan conference in... 28 Views | 0 Replies
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by mike2009 on 03. July 2009., 06:38:33 Re-installing Windows is actually an easy process. Although it can take time to get Windows back on your system, once it is installed you’re ready to go. However, once you’ve installed Windows, most of the installed drivers are the files that shipped with the original operating system. Surely you’d be better using the most modern and up-to-date drivers? Driver Genius enables you to... 25 Views | 0 Replies
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by mike2009 on 03. July 2009., 06:36:22 A posting on the Internet Storm Center (ISC) portal from security organisation Sans yesterday pointed to another mobile Trojan doing the rounds. However, exactly what threat it poses is still unclear. The Trojan in question created a thread which sent six SMS messages, the contents of which are obfuscated. However, what the Trojan is intending to do is still cloudy. The ISC reader in question who alerted... 12 Views | 0 Replies
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by mike2009 on 03. July 2009., 06:30:12 Torrentreactor, one of the largest torrent indexers, has been compromised by unknown attackers who injected a hidden IFrame into its pages. The IFrame loads malicious code from a remote server that attempts to exploit software on visitors' computers and infect them with malware. The incident has been reported by security researchers from web security company Websense. "Websense Security Labs ThreatSeeker Network... 19 Views | 0 Replies
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