The High Court in London has paved the way for what could become a nationwide ban on accessing the notorious Pirate Bay file-sharing website.
Japanese parliament hacked
According to local media reports, hackers were able to snoop upon emails and steal passwords from computers belonging to lawmakers at the Japanese parliament for over a month. A report in the Asahi Shimbun claims that PCs and servers were infected after a Trojan horse was emailed to a a Lower House member in July. The
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Malware attack poses as bloody photos of Gaddafi’s death
The death of Libyan dictator Colonel Gaddafi has almost inevitably resulted in cybercriminals taking advantage of the news story, and the general public’s seeming interest in viewing ghoulish photos and videos of his last moments. Malicious hackers have spammed out an attack posing as pictures of Gaddafi’s death, tricking users into believing that they came
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Shocking Study Reveals How Top Sites Use Your Personal Data
By Julia Angwin, Wall Street Journal A study released Tuesday shows that 45% of the top 185 U.S. websites transmit identifying details about their visitors to at least four outside websites. The data transmitted was primarily a “username” – which is the name a person uses to log into a website – or a user ID
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Student arrested for hacking Prime Minister’s Twitter account
Police in Thailand have arrested a university student who is said to have admitted hacking into the Prime Minister’s Twitter account and posting messages accusing her of incompetence. 22-year-old Aekawit Thongdeeworakul, a fourth year architecture student at Chulalongkorn University, could face up to two years in prison if found guilty of illegally accessing computer systems
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Google’s Picasa and Yahoo! Groups used to spread spam
One of the most effective techniques anti-spam products have to block spam messages from reaching your inbox is reputation filtering. Yes, to a degree, anti-spam solutions may still look for v1@gr@and Mrs. Gaddafi offering you $40 million, but the biggest bang for your buck comes from reputation. What do you do if you are a spammer? Figure
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