Global security firm Cisco has warned LinkedIn users about a harmful spam attack designed to trick users into opening a link that will infect their computers with malicious software designed to steal private information. Anthony Edwards, technical support manager at TrendMicro Australia, says LinkedIn users need to be extremely wary of opening any friend...
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A cross-site scripting vulnerability in Twitter is being exploited this morning. Update: Twitter reports that as of 6:50AM PDT “the exploit is fully patched.” Update: The attack is working again. Very strange. Update: Twitter seems to have fixed the bug. As explained and demonstrated in some detail by Sophos’s Graham Cluley, the...
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Facebook has clarified, in a lengthy blog post, details about this outage which it calls the worst outage of the site in four years. Earlier today, Facebook was unavailable for a lengthy period of time  – throwing continuous error messages. With Twitter too facing an attack not long ago, many thought of this being...
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Google is adding more security to their online application suite. Those of you who use Google may used their online word-processor and spreadsheet builder through your Gmail account. Sometimes, you may notice that Google will ask you for you password, even if you are logged on. However, passwords aren’t always the best way to...
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The head of Interpol has told an online security conference that his identity was stolen in order to create two different Facebook profiles. Speaking at an anti-cybercrime gathering, Ronald Noble said the example shows how cybercriminals are becoming increasingly more sophisticated about how they gather and use information. “Cybercrime is emerging as a very...
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