Saturday, January 28th, 2012
Attackers have developed a new way to infect your PC through email -- without forcing you to click on an attachment. According to researchers at eleven, a German security firm, the new drive-by spam automatically downloads malware when am email is opened in the email client. The user doesn't have ...
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Saturday, July 9th, 2011
You've got it, and I've got it. Everyone's overwhelmed by the sheer number of social sites the industry keep churning out.
I was already struggling to stay active on Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Google Buzz, Google Reader and several other social sites.
As new media come online, the old ones never go away. ...
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Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
As has been widely reported, high profile users of Gmail - including US government officials, reporters and political activists - have had their email accounts hacked.
This wasn't a sophisticated attack against Google's systems, but rather a cleverly-crafted HTML email which pointed to a Gmail phishing page. Victims would believe that ...
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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
Last night Google started rolling out the change that enables the "Always use https" feature of Gmail by default. This is a great change to finally see because any little bit helps.
Source:
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/default-https-access-for-gmail.html
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Monday, December 7th, 2009
Trusteer warned the customers of website hosting companies, including yahoo.com, against a new phishing attack aimed at stealing their content management system log-in credentials. The e-mails appear to be from a website hosting firm and ask website owners to confirm their cPanel/FTP account information. Using this information, criminals are uploading ...
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