Archive for the ‘Security News’ Category
Monday, August 4th, 2008
By Spyware News (www.spywarenews.org) - Malware creators and third party trojan programs are not a new thing. Ever since the days of Sub7 and its ilk, novice hackers have already used freeware tools and programs that were created by other more experienced cyber criminals. But with the advent of ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
By Spyware News (www.spywarenews.org) - It's fairly easy to protect yourself against identity theft when you're online, since all you have to do is keep your softwares patched and up to date, install a good antivirus and anti spyware program, and to never visit untrustworthy sites as well as ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
By Spyware News - According to a recent press release by Zango, the famous adware company has recently terminated the employment of 68 out of the 200 plus people that comprise its total workforce. The lay offs were done as a means to streamline and narrow the company's goals and ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
By Spyware News www.spywarenews.org - A couple of teens from Tesoro High School in Orange County, California, are being charged with multiple felony charges after being caught of hacking into their school's computer network in order to infect it with spyware designed to monitor and change their grades.
The teachers at ...
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Sunday, June 15th, 2008
The Federal Trade Commission today told the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation that the power to invoke civil penalties on spyware distributors would aid in deterrence.
Eileen Harrington, deputy director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, said enforcement options, such as seeking consumer redress or making the operators ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Six Apart is launching a new free open source product into beta called TypePad AntiSpam. While the product is new, the technology behind it has been used by Six Apart since May 2007 on millions of hosted TypePad blogs.
What's TypePad AntiSpam?
A free, open source system powered by TypePad for blocking ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
The FBI recently issued an alert warning that wireless Internet networks, often called Wi-Fi hotspots, are more vulnerable to hackers than most users probably realize.
Often the security of the free public networks is low and this setting make it very easy for a hacker working from anywhere around the world ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
PayPal announced plans to ban older and unsafe Web browsers in an effort to provide anti-phishing protection with the use of EV SSL certificates.
PayPal, the world's largest online payment service, announced on Thursday that it is working on a plan to block users from making transactions from unsafe Web browsers.
PayPal ...
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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
A federal appeals court has ruled that MySpace.com is immune from a lawsuit over the alleged sexual assault of a teenage girl by a man she met on the social networking Web site.
The Texas girl's family had sued MySpace and its parent company, News Corp., claiming that MySpace didn't protect ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Spam king Sanford Wallace and phishing buddy Walter Rines hijacked some 300,000 MySpace accounts and sent hundreds of thousands of spam messages and comments across the service. They got their punishment: a whopping $225 million judgment in favor of MySpace, Information Week reports.
MySpace decided to sue when it discovered the ...
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