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Woman sues to force exposure of YouTube bullies
A business consultant is seeking a court order forcing Google to turn over the names of YouTube commentards who called her a whore and posted unauthorized videos of her.…
Facebook login page <i>still</i> leaks sensitive info
Facebook's login system continues to spill information that can be helpful to phishers, social engineers and other miscreants attempting to scam the more than 500 million active users of the social networking site.…
<em>Jackal</em> novelist blames NSA for wife's laptop hack
Novelist Frederick Forsyth has accused heavy handed US cyber-spies of destroying his wife's computer in an attempt to tap into copy he was filling for the Daily Express from West Africa.…
Clickjacking threat punts Facebook survey scam
Miscreants have unleashed a new type of clickjacking worm onto Facebook.…
Clickjacking threat punts Facebook survey scam
Miscreants have unleashed a new type of clickjacking worm onto Facebook.…
Clickjacking threat punts Facebook survey scam
Miscreants have unleashed a new type of clickjacking worm onto Facebook.…
Adobe to patch Black Hat bugs on Thursday
Adobe plans to release out-of-sequence updates on Thursday (19 August) designed to patch security holes in its Acrobat and Reader PDF software revealed at the Black Hat conference earlier this month.…
Apple.com hit in latest mass hack attack
A hack attack that can expose users to malware exploits has infected more than 1 million webpages, at least two of which belong to Apple.…
Mozilla eases fears over phishy URL alert
Mozilla developers have eased concerns about the severity of a security feature in Firefox that often fails to warn users when they've encountered obfuscated URLs that might lead to malicious websites.…
HP slurps up security software firm
HP has bought Fortify Software, strengthening its application security software portfolio.…
Spurs soothsayer predicts Young Boys thrashing on Twitter
Spurs has apologised over a misguided update to the club's Twitter account that predicted the North London club would thrash Euro opponents Young Boys on Tuesday night.…
Hacked Axl Rose Twitter account spreads false tour news
Axl Rose's Twitter account was hacked on Sunday to spread false rumours that Guns N' Roses was cancelling an upcoming European tour.…
Network Solutions pulls widget that tainted up to 5m websites
Network Solutions has admitted that a software widget designed to help small business to build websites was contaminated with malware.…
Network Solutions pulls widget that tainted up to 5m websites
Network Solutions has admitted that a software widget designed to help small business to build websites was contaminated with malware.…
Network Solutions pulls widget that tainted up to 5m websites
Network Solutions has admitted that a software widget designed to help small business to build websites was contaminated with malware.…
Disney sued for spying on kids with 'zombie cookies'
Walt Disney's internet subsidiary and several of its partners have been sued for allegedly using cookies based on Adobe's Flash Player to track highly personal information about their users, many of whom were minors.…
Android app secretly uploads GPS data, warns Symantec
Researchers from anti-virus provider Symantec have outted a gaming application in Google's Android Market that tracks users' whereabouts so they can be secretly monitored in real-time.…
Wikileaks double dares Pentagon hawks
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said his whistle-blower site won't be silenced by the Pentagon or any other group seeking to prevent it from airing more than 15,000 secret documents relating to the war in Afghanistan.…
Hackers: 'ColdFusion bug more serious than Adobe says'
A recently patched vulnerability in Adobe's ColdFusion application server may be more serious than previously thought following the public release of exploit code and blog posts claiming it can be used to take full control of systems running the software.…
Short passwords 'hopelessly inadequate', say boffins
The availability of password-cracking tools based on increasingly powerful graphics processors means that even carefully chosen short passwords are liable to crack under a brute-force attack.…