Thursday, June 12th, 2008
The websites of three of the security industry's best-known companies include security flaws that could be used to launch scams against customers, according to a new report.
The report, from security watchdog site XSSed, verified 30 cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities across the sites of McAfee, Symantec and VeriSign. The flaws could ...
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
TrendLabs Content Security has come upon a new phishing attack that leads to the download of malware. However, unlike most instances where phishing baits are usually banks, credit unions or other financial institutions, this time it uses the popular social networking Web site MySpace.com.
The phishing URL may be contained in ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
The computer attackers who took down Comcast's homepage and webmail service for over five hours Thursday say they didn't know what they were getting themselves into.
In an hour-long telephone conference call with Threat Level, the hackers known as "Defiant" and "EBK" expressed astonishment over the attention their DNS hijacking has ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
Google's new Web Security for Enterprise service enables companies in the US and Europe to safeguard their internet traffic with protection against viruses and spyware and malicious URLs. According to Google the system "powered by Postini, stops web-borne spyware and viruses before they infiltrate your network and compromise or disable ...
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
A security problem with MySpace has the potential to botch up law-enforcement efforts to track bad actors on the social-networking site.
An increasing number of MySpace profiles contain a few lines of code that automatically subscribe people to the profile's video channel, said Chris Boyd, security research manager for FaceTime Communications.
After ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Many schools, companies and organizations these days use Internet filtering software to block certain websites from access. However, for every one of these blocking tools, there is a work around for savvy users that want to see the content. It's not that difficult to bypass MySpace filters and other similar ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
News Corp.'s popular MySpace.com social networking site hosted Web pages for at least 29,000 known sex offenders as of July 2007, North Carolina's Attorney General said Tuesday.
North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper's office said in a statement that based on MySpace's own estimates, the number of registered sex offenders with ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Increasingly popular social-networking sites such as MySpace, YouTube and Facebook are accounting for such huge volumes of DNS queries and bandwidth consumption that carriers, universities and corporations are scrambling to keep pace.
The trend is prompting some network operators to upgrade their DNS systems, while others are blocking the sites altogether. ...
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