‘Security’ Archives
Irate parents in Pa. say schools use 'peeping tom technology'
FBI investigates, federal prosecutors subpoena documents in MacBook spying case, say reports. The parents of a Pennsylvania high school student have asked a federal judge to bar school district personnel from switching on cameras in school-issued MacBook laptops, calling the security feature "peeping tom technology." In their motion Friday, [...]
ID Theft: Don't Take It Personally
A new study shows that banks, not consumer victims, are increasingly feeling the pain of digital fraud. Identity theft often feels less like a random act of fraud than a personal breach of a victim's secrets. But while consumers feel the sting from having their private data stolen, it's their banks that are increasingly picking up the [...]
A system to cut down computer's spam diet
London: A group of computer scientists have come up with a system that deciphers the templates a botnet uses to create spam, and these templates are then used to teach spam filters what to look for. This can be used to block the most common kind of spam. Most spam messages originate in networks of compromised computers, called botnets, and [...]
Microsoft Acts To Ward Off Attacks
Software giant issues patch to prevent attacks like the one that hit Google in China.Google China | Image Source : Media.macworld.co.ukMicrosoft Corp. on Thursday released a patch to protect Internet Explorer users from attacks like "Operation Aurora" which targeted Google Inc.'s China business and caused widespread Internet panic."This [...]
Google Hack Raises Serious Concerns
A coordinated hacking campaign targeting Google, Adobe Systems and more than 30 other companies raises serious concerns, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday. In a statement released late Tuesday night, Clinton said that the U.S. government is taking the attack -- which Google said came from China -- very seriously. "We have [...]
Body Scanners Not 'magic technology' Against Terror
The full-body scanning technology being adopted and discussed since the attempt to take down a passenger plane on Christmas Day isn't a "magic machine" that will solve aviation security issues, experts say. "Regardless of the sophistication of the piece of technology, if you can collect the information on how it works and what its technical [...]
Google Loses Domain Name Dispute Over Groovle.com
Internet giant Google.com has lost an arbitration case over the domain name Groovle.com. In a decision released today, The National Arbitration Forum, dismissed Google’s complaint which claimed that it was entitled to the domain name Groovle.com. Google claimed that the domain name is “confusingly similar” to its trademark for [...]
Handphone : The New Look Of Mobile Security
Our phones are becoming more like computers with every passing day. The good news is that we can take our data anywhere and work wherever we'd like. The bad news is that our phones are becoming more vulnerable to spyware, viruses and other attacks. A start-up called Lookout is trying to make phones safer and views itself as the "Symantec or [...]
Twitter Hacked: Iranian Cyber Army takes on
The millions of Twitter buffs are at dismay as Twitter gets hacked for the fourth time consecutively, this year. The last time it was hacked in August this year, Twitter said in its status blog that it was 'defending against a denial-of-service attack,' in which hackers command scores of computers to a single site at the same time, preventing [...]
Google's Chrome OS Aims to Speed Up Netbooks
Look for Google’s lightweight, browser-based operating system to debut on mobile systems sometime in 2010. Google unveiled what it's hoping will be the new standard in netbook operating systems: Chrome OS. Based on Linux, Chrome OS is a fast, low-overhead OS that boots directly into a Web browser to get you online with as little waiting as [...]
Apple to Nokia: 'Stop Stealing Our Technology!'
Apple and Nokia are getting into the holiday spirit this year by suing one another over a patent dispute. The fun started this past October when Nokia sued Apple for allegedly infringing on 10 of its patents that covered a wide range of mobile data technologies, including speed encoding and decoding, security and encryption. At the time, the [...]
Facebook Still a Hotbed of Identity Theft, Study Claims
IT security firm Sophos has announced its latest probe into how easy it is to steal identities via Facebook and found that user negligence is worst in 2009. It is assumed things would be better in 2009 but the situation is worse. This really is a wake-up call," said Paul Ducklin, head of technology, Sophos Asia-Pacific (Sydney). Ducklin, who [...]
The Pirate Bay's Heir Apparent
As the world's biggest file-sharing sites clean up or shut down, all eyes are on Isohunt. The world of peer-to-peer piracy is in turmoil. In April, copyright-flouting icon the Pirate Bay was ordered by a Swedish court to shut down its file-sharing service, and last week the second largest file-sharing destination, Mininova, announced that it [...]
New iPhone worm affecting banking site
The new worm is affecting iPhone users in the Netherlands. The worm is redirecting users from a legitimate banking website to a fake site. The worm has been identified by security experts at security solutions firm F-Secure, and appears to be predominantly affecting Dutch iPhone users attempting to log on to their ING Bank accounts on the [...]
Kids and Technology – Parents Making Choices
Issue to Think : What do you think about kids having more expensive technological gadgets at their personal disposal in general? Read this comment By Erika Krull, MS, LMHP. Erika Krull, MS, LMHP is a practicing licensed mental health counselor in Nebraska. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised by this, but I have seen more and more elementary [...]
Bing Ads Warn About Online Scams
If you’re looking for information on how to fix your credit score through Microsoft’s search engine Bing, you might get warned that many of the links you’ll encounter are, in fact, scams. It’s a new campaign devised to protect users from getting scammed; Microsoft worked with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Postal Inspection [...]
Warning: this unrealistic image has been Photoshopped
The French parliament has held its first hearing of a proposed law that would require every advertisement to display a disclaimer telling the public that images of people were manipulated. The goal is to help cut down on body issues in adolescents, and violating the law could be costly. If there was a disclaimer on every piece of media that [...]
Photoshopping Illegal? France Set to Regulate Airbrushed Pics
File this squarely under “would never happen in the U.S.” but French lawmakers have a fascinating new idea to combat body image issues: require disclaimers on Photoshopped or otherwise “enhanced” images of people. The required warning would be needed in newspaper and magazine advertising, press photos, product packaging, political [...]
How to Hack Facebook
Security vendor PandaLabs has discovered an online service offering to help those so inclined to hack into any Facebook account they choose for a price: $100. However, those who sign up for the service could find themselves becoming the victims instead, PandaLabs warned. The Facebook hacking service, which is delivered via a professional-looking [...]
Cyber Crime on the rise in Facebook
BOSTON, June 30 — 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 [...]
