Tag: Security

Google Joins Facebook, Twitter, AOL, IAB To Stop Badware
Google, Twitter, Facebook, AOL and the IAB have joined forces to form the Ads Integrity Alliance, geared toward keeping protectin...
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Facebook Accused Of Killing Google+ Traffic With Faulty Security Alerts [UPDATED]
UPDATE: I've received a response from Facebook, who says that "unfortunately, this was indeed a glitch in our spam prevention system." We in...
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UStream Hacked Ahead Of Apple’s WWDC?
Popular live video streaming site UStream may have been compromised by hackers. Visiting the site using Google's Chrome browser, we're seeing:...
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LinkedIn Password Leak Confirms That People Truly Suck At Choosing Passwords
Last week, you may have received an email or two from LinkedIn detailing the steps you needed to take following a...
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Instant Personalization and Public Search Come To Facebook Security Settings
For those always on the lookout for new ways to ramp up their privacy and security on the site, Facebook has just added two additional options for privacy control to their...
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Google Expands Hacking Detection To Deeper Pages
Google has released its big list of algorithm changes for the month of May. T...
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LinkedIn Password Leak Brings Email Spam
With more than 6.4 million LinkedIn passwords leaked onto a hash-cracking forum this week, ther...
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Facebook Announces Some Improvements In Mobile Security
Although Facebook probably didn't plan it like this, this announcement is pretty timely considering what's been going on over at LinkedIn and some other high-profile sites in the p...
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MD5crypt Password Scrambler Not Safe, Says Creator
One of the more interesting things revealed to the public during the LinkedIn password leak deb...
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Google Lets You Know When You’re Being Targeted By State-Sponsored Attacks
Google announced that will start showing new warnings when it believes users' accounts may be the target of state-sponsored attacks. Google says it will show the warnings when...
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Remove Facebook Timeline Scams Still Target Dissatisfied Users
When Facebook makes a big change, a good portion of the user base freaks out for a little while. This has happened for years and if I thought myself a betting man, I'd bet that Fa...
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U.S. Government Releases List Of Words They Look For Online
It's pretty obvious by now that the U.S. government wants to despera...
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Yahoo Axis Private Certificate Key Leaked at Launch
Though the security issue has been resolved, Yahoo slightly botched the launch of...
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Apple Hires Kapersky Labs To Test Mac Security
The Flashback malware threat that recently plague...
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Facebook Is Going To Drag You Away (Into The Public)
Facebook as a company is going public very soon and, begrudgingly, its dragging all of its users into having a more public presence whether they like it or not. While Facebook's...
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