Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Twitter is a fun Web 2.0 communications tool that allows users to deliver quick messages of 140 characters or less. The hastiness and ephemeral nature of these messages means that Twitter has become more than a communication tool — it's a source of angry, funny and awkward messages that would ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Web traffic volumes will almost double every two years from 2007 to 2012, driven by video and web 2.0 applications, according to a report from Cisco Systems.
Increased use of video and social networking has created what Cisco calls 'visual networking', which is raising traffic volumes at a compound annual growth ...
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
From Web sites related to online banking, credit unions, financial departments, and social networking sites, phishers are chucking their rods into relatively new territory: video streaming sites.
Trend Micro Content Security team learned about this latest (and very interesting) phishing technique a few days back. Several phishing domains (see Figure 1) ...
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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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Sunday, June 1st, 2008
Users of the professional-oriented social networking site LinkedIn are being warned that scam artists are using the site to nab lucrative bank account information from naive victims, say security experts.
Advanced fee fraud -- also known as "419 scams" after the relevant section of the Nigerian penal code -- have become ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
A wiry young man with his head shaved and wearing a tank top points a handgun straight at the camera in a disturbing YouTube video. The man wears what appears to be a wedding ring, and he gazes vacantly away from the viewer.
Though it's an odd image for an advertisement, ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
My favorite tech quote is from Giorgio Maone. It goes like this: If today’s malware mostly runs on Windows because it’s the commonest executable platform, tomorrow’s will likely run on the Web, for the very same reason. Because, like it or not, Web is already a huge executable platform, and ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Well, I finally jumped on that social networking bandwagon called Twitter. I signed up for Twitter about an hour or so ago just to check it out and see what all the hype was about. I know, I'm slow. But they always say that a person hears or sees something ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Today Microsoft is unveiling a technology preview to a really neat new software+services platform called Live Mesh. Live Mesh is a brand new platform that helps your devices act together through the internet enabling users such as you and me to manage, access, and share their files and applications from ...
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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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