Posted on January 26th, 2012 by ElectroGeek
Facebook has teamed up with the Washington Attorney General to put real resources toward getting rid of spam on the social network — starting with a lawsuit. “Security is an arms race, and that’s why Facebook is committed to constantly improving our consumer safeguards while pursuing and supporting civil and criminal consequences for bad actors,” [...]
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Posted on January 6th, 2012 by ElectroGeek
A computer worm that has traditionally targeted the financial industry has set its sights on social networking, recently stealing over 45,000 Facebook login credentials, according to security firm Seculert. In a statement, Facebook said the majority of the login credentials were outdated, but it was still notifying the affected users. The worm, known as Ramnit, [...]
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Posted on December 22nd, 2011 by ElectroGeek
A group of hackers in China breached the computer defenses of America’s top business-lobbying group and gained access to everything stored on its systems, including information about its three million members, according to several people familiar with the matter. The break-in at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is one of the boldest known infiltrations in [...]
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Posted on December 6th, 2011 by ElectroGeek
What’s been described as a bug in some new computer code briefly allowed Facebook users to snoop on the private pictures of other members. The glitch, which Facebook discovered Tuesday, was part of the site’s tool that lets users report offensive contents. Clicking on a user’s profile picture, then reporting it to Facebook as containing [...]
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Posted on December 2nd, 2011 by ElectroGeek
U.S. Representative Edward Markey on Friday asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether software maker Carrier IQ violated millions of mobile phone users’ privacy rights. Carrier IQ makes software that companies including AT&T Inc and Sprint Nextel install in mobile devices. It runs in the background, transmitting data that the software maker says its [...]
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Posted on December 1st, 2011 by ElectroGeek
The United Nations finds itself resecuring its network Wednesday following a hack that resulted in the login details of the employees of several divisions being posted to the Internet. Calling itself TeaMp0isoN, the group calls the UN “a Senate for global corruption” and “sits to facilitate the introduction of a New World Order and a [...]
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Posted on November 21st, 2011 by ElectroGeek
Malware targeted toward Android devices continues to surge, says a new report from McAfee, pushing 2011 to become the busiest year in history for both mobile and general malware. The amount of malware infecting Android devices during the third quarter grew almost 37 percent from the second quarter, according to McAfee’s Third-Quarter Threats Report (PDF). [...]
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Posted on November 20th, 2011 by ElectroGeek
If “password” is your password, chances are you’ve been the victim of a hack attack. “Password” is the least successful, according to SplashData’s annual list of worst Internet passwords. The list, notes Mashable.com, is somewhat predictable. Sequences of adjacent numbers or letters on the keyboard, such as “qwerty” and “123456,” and popular names, such as [...]
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Posted on November 18th, 2011 by ElectroGeek
For the first time, Facebook has revealed details about how it tracks users across the web. Through interviews with Facebook engineering director Arturo Bejar, Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes, Facebook corporate spokesman Barry Schnitt and Facebook engineering manager Gregg Stefancik, USA Today‘s Byron Acohido was able to compile the most complete picture to date of how [...]
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