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Scammers and spammers attack Apple's new Ping social network
3 Sep 2010 at 5:29pm

Scammers and spammers are flooding Apple's newly-launched Ping music-related social network with fraudulent messages, says security firm Sophos.

Prescott urges phone hack review
3 Sep 2010 at 3:19pm

Lord Prescott has said he is prepared to take legal action to find out whether News of The World journalists hacked into his phone messages.

Twitter crackdown on hackers posting links to viruses with launch of URL shor...
3 Sep 2010 at 3:19pm

Twitter is launching its own URL shortening service to increase the transparency of links posted on its social networking site.

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3 Sep 2010 at 11:09am

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'I gave too much away': David Blunkett's startling admission on UK-U.S. extra...
3 Sep 2010 at 7:09am

The last government stubbornly insisted there was nothing wrong with the Act - while rejecting overwhelming support for Gary instead to be tried in the UK.

Phishing scam targets fast food customers
3 Sep 2010 at 2:59am

Security experts are issuing warnings following the discovery of a phishing attack based on fast food chain McDonald's. According to security firm Sophos, the attack claims to be a customer survey.

Facebook won't shut down stalker
2 Sep 2010 at 10:40pm

Above are messages left by a stalker using a hacked Facebook account. A Sydney mother-of-three, her daughter and daughter's friends have been subjected to a two-week ordeal at the hands of a Facebook stalker and they have been unable to get the social networking company to intervene.

FishNet Security Survey Reveals That Cloud Computing Will Replace...
2 Sep 2010 at 6:33pm

FishNet Security, the nation's leading provider of information security solutions that combine technology, services, support and training, today announced the results of its 2010 IT security trends and spending survey.

Monitor: Schrodinger's cat and mouse
2 Sep 2010 at 2:24pm

Computing: Quantum cryptography is unbreakable in theory. But like any security system, in practice it is only as safe as its weakest link IT SOUNDS foolproof.

Butchered whale found on Fla. beach
2 Sep 2010 at 1:24pm

Authorities are questioning a man who was allegedly cutting off the tail of a whale on a South Florida beach.

Phone-hacking scandal returns to haunt Coulson
2 Sep 2010 at 1:24pm

New investigation suggests Coulson 'actively encouraged' phone hacking at the News of the World.

Stonesoft launches secure mobile authentication for Apple and Android
2 Sep 2010 at 10:20am

Network security supplier Stonesoft has made its MobileID authentication software token available for five new mobile platforms to allow access to mission-critical systems.

How Google attacks changed the security game
2 Sep 2010 at 6:14am

As worldwide chief technology officer for security company McAfee, George Kurtz took part in the investigation - called Operation Aurora - earlier this year of the attacks against Google and a number of other companies that apparently targeted high-value sensitive information.

Malaysian National Institute of Public Administration suffers cyber attack
2 Sep 2010 at 2:10am

Source: The Star The website of the National Institute of Public Administration has suffered a cyber attack believed to be by Indonesian hackers.

Hacker spikes voting for new Dick's Drive-In location
1 Sep 2010 at 10:06pm

SEATTLE Dick's Drive-In has been hacked. The famous Seattle burger chain says someone has broke into its website and spiked the numbers on a poll that asks customers where Dick's should put its next restaurant.

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