Social network Facebook said on Wednesday that it is bringing new suits against individuals accused of using the 500 million person social network to send spam messages and promote non existent products.
The FBI is warning businesses about the rash of scams that attack crews are using to target their bank accounts and drain them. The scams themselves are nothing new, but the FBI says that they’re becoming more prevalent and sophisticated as the attackers adjust their tactics.
Online scam artists are using black hat search engine optimization (SEO) techniques to push more than just malicious software. In fact, SEO is increasingly being used to drive traffic to a range of phony Web based search engines that are feeding cost-per-click advertising scams, according to a blog post from Web security firm zScaler.
Mozilla has released Firefox 3.6.11 with patches for a dozen security holes, some serious enough to launch attacks if a user simply surfs to a booby-trapped website.
The persistent method that security researcher Samy Kamkar introduced last week for storing tracking data on a user’s machine, known as the “Evercookie,” is even more worrisome when used on mobile devices, according to another researcher’s analysis.
Spammers are pushing out e-mail borne malware at unprecedented rates in an apparent attempt to build up botnets in advance of the busy holiday shopping season, according to a report by Google.
A report of a massive ‘privacy breach’ at Facebook reveals, instead, the rickety underpinnings of the modern Internet straining at the demands of new applications.
When the Wall Street Journal broke a story on Monday about a “Privacy Breach” at Facebook, all the elements were in place for a tech-driven earthquake: the world’s largest social network, the privacy of what the Journal described as ‘tens of millions’ of users of Facebook applications (or ‘apps’) including mega hits like Zynga’s Farmville.
By Alex RothackerDatabase Management Systems (DBMS) have extended their capabilities far beyond simply serving as data storage and query systems. Contrary to what they were in the 1970
Adobe will finally release the new version of its Reader software–which will include the much-anticipated Protected Mode security feature–next month. Adobe Reader X will include a number of other new features in addition to the sandbox feature.
It’s been a blissful few months since Conficker last reared its over-hyped head, but now there’s a new piece of malware that is adopting some of the tactics that Conficker used. The malware, known as Murofet, is using Conficker’s technique of generating thousands of new domains for updates every day, but doing it in a somewhat novel way.
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