As computers, tablets and smart phones become more and more a part of our everyday lives, the ability to share data efficiently and securely has become incredibly important. Of course, ordinary emails and messages are easy enough, but Internet security is an increasingly daunting issue, and we all need to make efforts to guard ourselves …
Anonymous has ended a rather busy week with a hack of the CIA website, which is currently offline. “CIA TANGO DOWN: https://www.cia.gov/ #Anonymous,” the @YourAnonNews feed tweeted around 3:30pm Eastern. The CIA.gov website has been unresponsive for about an hour. Anonymous did not release details about the attack, but the group usually uses distributed denial …
Photos deleted from Facebook have remained on the social network’s servers for nearly three years, according to an investigation by Ars Technica. Ars Technica looked into this situation almost three years ago and found that some of the photos that users deleted then are still accessible on Facebook’s servers. Facebook told Ars Technica that, while …
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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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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 In a statement, Facebook said the majority of the login credentials were outdated, but it was still notifying the affected users.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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