Friday, March 6th, 2009 Twitter, the micro-blogging site, has closed an SMS spoofing security hole which, until Wednesday night, left accounts open to being hijacked. The vulnerability was due to an authentication weakness that allowed anyone who knew a user's mobile number to spoof their messages, provided that the user's mobile number was set ...
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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009 Gmail is Google's "free webmail service. It comes with built-in Google search technology and over 2,600 megabytes of storage (and growing every day). You can keep all your important messages, files and pictures forever, use search to quickly and easily find anything you're looking for, and make sense of it ...
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Monday, January 5th, 2009 Days after a wave of phishing attacks fooled thousands of Twitter users, it appears that another security hole has been found by...someone. Obama's account, unused since election day, sent out an affiliate link to a survey with a gas card prize, Fox News said that "Bill O'Reily is gay" (not ...
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Monday, December 22nd, 2008 Microsoft late Monday issued a pre-patch advisory confirming a remote code execution vulnerability affecting its SQL Server line.The vulnerability, publicly disclosed with exploit code more than two weeks ago, affects Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine ...
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have released an extension for Firefox 3 that can protect wireless network users from so-called "man-in-the-middle" attacks.The software, dubbed "Perspectives," is available for download for free.Perspectives also protects against attacks that exploit a recently exposed flaw in the DNS system, which translates Web addresses into ...
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