Tag: Security

Google Exec Page Turned to Chinese
Something fishy is going on. If you...
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Twitter Inspects Links To Prevent Spam, Abuse
Clicking on links that different people send can often be a cross-your-fingers experience, considering that there are malicious tricksters, unknowing victims, and hijacked accou...
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Twellow Gets Twitter OAuth Support
Our Twellow team has been working hard on getting Twellow set up to use Twitter's OAuth system, and that support is now available on Twellow.com...
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Cyber Attackers Pose as New York Times
Symantec's MessageLabs tells WebProNews there is a new targeted attack using emails pretending to be from the New York Times. Me...
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Another Piece of Chinese Google Attack Puzzle Falls into Place
Update: The Financial Times is reporting that the writer of the code used in the infamous attacks on Google and other companies has allegedly been identifi...
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PleaseRobMe Hits Foursquare Users with a Dose of Reality
Update: Fousquare has issued a respons to the attention PleaseRobMe has brought to potential privacy issues associated with location sharing. What it boils down to is that...
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Google Talks Spam Control for Buzz
Update: WebProNews contacted Google to find out how they handle Google Buzz spam. The company tells us: "We have several spam and abuse...
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Google Launches Log Search for the Cloud
Google just introduced message log search for Postini, its group of cloud security and archiving services. "When messages pass through the Postini service,...
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Google Partners with NSA on Cyber Attack Analysis
Update 4: Google has reportedly now teamed up with the...
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You May Be the Biggest Threat to Your Twitter Account
Twitter initiated a password reset to a bunch of user accounts who were suddenly following a couple of suspicious accounts. These accounts were determined to be involved in phis...
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As Companies Relax on Social Media, Threats Increase
Even as social media has grown to be a much more widely accepted form of communication among businesses over the years, there is still plenty of data out there depicting the fla...
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Google Pulls Out Checkbook To Secure Chromium
Security experts who either weren't inclined to do Google any favors or actually wanted to cause a little mischief now have good reason to help the search giant out.  Googl...
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Cost Of Data Breaches Continues To Climb
Data breach incidents cost U.S. companies $204 per compromised customer record in 2009, compared to $202 in 2008, according to a new study from the Ponemon Institute and securit...
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Google, PayPal, Mozilla Help StopBadware Go Solo
Thanks to Google, PayPal, and Mozilla, the anti-malware organization borne out of Harvard's Berkman center has become an independent entity.  StopBadware.org is now a non-p...
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Avast Software Added To Google Pack
At least in certain parts of the world, Google has revised its approach to connecting people with security products.  Avast Free Antivirus is now included in eight differen...
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