Microsoft announced today it is suing Britain’s second-largest electronics retailer Comet for allegedly creating and selling more than 94,000 back-up discs of its Windows Vista and Windows XP product.
Amnesty International’s United Kingdom website was compromised late last week and was being used to exploit a known Java runtime environment hole on machines belonging to unwitting visitors to the site, according to Barracuda Labs researcher, Paul Royal.
Call it a new twist on Facebook “Like” jacking. Researchers at the firm Zscaler say that scammers are embedding Facebook “Like” widgets from top ranked Web brands and in Web pages used to promote online scams or distribute malware. The widgets make it appear as if tens- or hundreds of thousands of Facebook users ‘like’ the scam Web site.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is taking aim at a plan by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to increase the number of domains on the Web.
The Romanian Banks Association has issued a warning to credit card users in that country to be on the lookout for suspicious charges, after the Agency received notice of a possible breach at European credit card processor.(PDF)
Teen pop sensation and Rachel Maddow look-alike, Justin Bieber, was not stabbed outside a Los Angeles nightclub, nor was he stabbed outside a nightclub in New York, as two current Facebook spam campaigns allege.
Customers of the online poker Website Ultimate Bet (UB) are the victims of a data breach that spilled the private information of up to 3.5 million of its customers online over the weekend.
It’s going to be considerably harder to get that sweet, knock-off Louis Vuitton bag you’ve been eyeing, and you can thank the US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) for that. The agency reportedly seized control of some 130 websites last week in advance of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, according to a report from The Register.
A campaign of explicit spam on Facebook this week has been linked to a relatively obscure exploit method known as self-inflicted JavaScript injection and not malicious code running on Facebook’s massive network, an independent analysis has shown.
The W3C has proposed a standard for implementing the Do Not Track mechanism for both users and site owners, wading into what has become a contentious and fractious debate. The proposed standard, known as the Tracking Preference Expression, is designed to give users the ability to tell sites what data they can collect, and allow those sites to inform users what they collect, in turn.
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