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- News to know: Skype; reCAPTCHA; Oracle Q1; Zune HD; Bing
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Report: Skype founders sue eBay; could complicate Skype sale Dave Greenfield: Skype Founders Sue eBay and...
- Tags: Google Inc., Oracle Corp., Microsoft Zune, Andrew Nusca, Skype Technologies S.A., Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Phishing, Microsoft Project, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Cyberthreats, Web Browsers, Handhelds, Security, Spam And Phishing, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Hardware, Internet
- Blog posts 2009-09-17
- Fake Microsoft patch malware campaign makes a comeback
- Fake Microsoft patch malware campaign makes a comebackHacked Linux servers often are botnet mastersand many linux machines are, oblivious to the user, participants in botnets. http://lwn.net/Articles/222153/http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=10251Oh, sure. If you say so.ntirresponsible users (or admins, in this case) regardless of OSA desktop user to clicks on a web link to...
- Tags: INTERNET, Operating systems, Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, OK Here, Linux, malware, desktop user, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-08-05
- Guy Kawasaki's Twitter account hijacked, pushes Windows and Mac malware
- The Twitter account belonging to venture capitalist and Mac evangelist Guy Kawasaki was hijacked yesterday and used to push malware to some 140,000 Twitter users. The attack screenshot above included a link to what purported to be a "sex tape video free download" linked to Gossip...
- Tags: Web, Apple Macintosh, Malware, Microsoft Windows, Guy Kawasaki, Twitter, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Channel Management, Corporate Communications, Web Site Development, Domain Names, Desktops, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Marketing, Internet, Hardware, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- News to know: RIM, Facebook TOS, Apple-Adobe, Android
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage Andrew Nusca: SEC charges RIM, 4 senior execs with stock option backdating Sam Diaz: Facebook's TOS debacle: Be upset...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Facebook, Research In Motion Ltd., Larry Dignan, Mobile, Dana Blankenhorn, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Advertising & Promotion, Smart Phones, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2009-02-18
- Clickjacking: Researchers raise alert for scary new cross-browser exploit
- [ UPDATE: See e-mail from NoScript creator Giorgio Maone on a possible mitigation ] Researchers are beginning to raise an alarm for what looks like a scary new browser exploit/threat affecting all the major desktop platforms -- Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Apple...
- Tags: JavaScript, Web Browser, Web Browsers, Scripting Languages, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- DNS cache poisoning attacks exploited in the wild
- UPDATE: Arbor Networks have provided more details in their "30 Days of DNS Attack Activity" analysis, SANS confirmed HD Moore's statement on DNS cache poisoned AT&T DNS servers. Numerous independent sources are starting to see evidence of DNS cache poisoning attempts on their local networks, in what appears to be...
- Tags: Query, DNS, Vulnerability, Server, Attack, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-29
- Romanian authorities arrest cybercrime suspects
- Well, eight days, and a joint effort to help prevent phishing and two major arrests related to identity theft, and I feel like we've made a decent attack on the identity theft culture. Score one for the good guys for once. Just a day after reading...
- Tags: Arrest, eBay Inc., Romania, Romanian, Phishing, Identity Theft, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- Photobucket's DNS records hijacked by Turkish hacking group
- Photobucket's DNS records hijacked by Turkish hacking groupJust wait until Paypal gets hijackedSo far this has just been child's play. Sooner or later there's going to be some serious financial consequences, and not just for the site owners.RE: Photobucket's DNS records hijacked by Turkish hacking groupThat's all very well... but...
- Tags: Domain names, NETWORKING, SECURITY, Photobucket, Turkish, hacking group, DNS Records, DNS, hacking
- Discussion threads 2008-06-18
- News to know: Adobe; Apple; Facebook; Microsoft security
- Notable headlines: Zack Whittaker: Students try to bring down Facebook Dancho Danchev: Microsoft's CAPTCHA successfully broken Ryan Naraine: Microsoft issues Safari-to-IE blended threat warning Obama looking for help thwarting Web site hackers Chinese female hacking group spotted ActiveX...
- Tags: Security, Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., Facebook, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Fuel Cells, Utility Computing, Hardware, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- Microsoft's CAPTCHA successfully broken
- UPDATE: Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHA broken by spammers. Jeff Yan and Ahmad Salah El Ahmad, at the School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, England recently published a research paper entitled "A Low-cost Attack on a Microsoft CAPTCHA", demonstrating how they've managed to attack the Microsoft's CAPTCHA used on...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, Microsoft Corp., Vladuz, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-05-31
- Interview with the Vista Pwn2Own contest winners
- Update 04/03/2008: I've updated the article as apparently the link to k2's blog was broken. Also, it's important to note that Derek Callaway was a part of this research and exploitation as well, and I neglected to mention that. So obviously our coverage of the Pwn2Own contest has...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Vulnerability, JavaScript, Microsoft Windows Vista, Exploit, Data Execution Prevention, Flaw, Nate, Programming Languages, Java, Security, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-04-02
- Stop the Kindle hype!
- Stop the Kindle hype!Scared much?!?I know you "Cupertino Crack" addicts sometimes have trouble separating reality from the RDF, but seriously, this post smacks of defend the queen!Anyone would think that Amazon had just declared war on Apple!Chill out David, your "cult" of products will not be affected by anything that...
- Tags: Digital media, Digital rights management (DRM), Digital music, Amazon.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-14
- Facebook's neocon links
- Writing in today's edition of The Guardian newspaper, Tom Hodgkinson does a complex hit job on Facebook, or more precisely, Facebook's founding investor Peter Thiel. Hodgkindson begins by accusing the "social utility" of being anti-social ("since instead of doing something enjoyable such as talking and eating and...
- Tags: Facebook, PayPal, Hodgkindson, Thiel, Bloomberg Markets, Venture Capital, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, Steve O'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-01-14
- 2007 year in review: 10 most popular posts
- Due to the lack of news during this time of year and a gentle prod from my ZDNet editors I thought it would be fun to look back at some of the most popular posts here on The Social Web in 2007. Perhaps unsurprisingly, many of these posts were also...
- Tags: Second Life, Facebook, Site, MySpace, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O'Hear
- Blog posts 2007-12-28
- Phishing-based breach of salesforce.com customer data is more evidence of industry's need to act on spam. Now.
- Last night, in a notice urging vigilance and a series of best practices, salesforce.com sent an e-mail to its customers notifying them that a variety of recent phishing attacks -- both against salesforce.com employees as well as against salesforce.com customers -- were successful at compromising their targets. Although...
- Tags: Customer, Cyberthreats, David Berlind, E-mail, Online Communications, Phishing, Sales, Sales Force Management, Salesforce.com Inc., Security, Spam, Spam And Phishing, That\, top.js.OpenExtLink, Viruses And Worms
- Blog posts 2007-11-06
- Mac Attack: Porn video lures dropping DNS-changer Trojan
- Organized identity thieves are using porn video lures to deliver malware to Mac OS X users, confirming fears among security researchers that it's only a matter of time before Apple's fast-growing platform becomes a big malware target. The ongoing attack, first spotted by Intego, includes spammed links...
- Tags: Web, Apple Macintosh, DNS Server, Trojan Horse, Server, Video, Web Page, Attack, Dmg, Corporate Communications, Desktops, Domain Names, Channel Management, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Phishing, Viruses And Worms, Security, Marketing, Hardware, Internet, Spam And Phishing, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2007-11-01
- Do-not-track list: Has a Web cookie ever interrupted your dinner?
- Do-not-track list: Has a Web cookie ever interrupted your dinner?Actually, they CAN get your address...Ever buy anything on the internet? Ask for something to be sent to you? Put in your phone number? Age? Those are all opportunities for data sharing with ad networks which can use the info to...
- Tags: eBay Inc., advertisement, Do-not-track, Web-cookie, AdBlockPlus
- Discussion threads 2007-10-31
- Did Skype just change my password without warning?
- Did Skype just change my password without warning?Passwords hacked? Or simply reset?If the outage caused damage to the password files on Skype's systems, those passwords may have been "reset" to their defaults probably meaning no password. Hopefully, Skype has recent backups.I had to do a repair-reinstall of XP...
- Tags: eBay Inc., password, Skype Technologies S.A.
- Discussion threads 2007-08-17
- Idiot frustrations
- Sometimes the things non technical people do just amaze me - and I'm never entirely sure whether I should laugh or cry. Just now, for example, I heard a commercial on CBC-FM for their internet broadcast service which went something like this: "Just boot-up"...
- Tags: What users care about, Enterprise Policy
- Blog posts 2007-07-13
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