Apparently, there are people out there who want Twitter followers so badly they’re willing to pay for it. In fact, there must be quite a few, since scammers have come up with a way to steal financial information from such folks by offering to sell followers.
Members of Microsoft’s European team are presenting a paper at a security conference this week in Geneva that delves into the security issues surrounding cloud computing.
Koobface, the social-networking worm that’s becoming almost as popular as Facebook itself, has added a new feature for Internet Explorer users who happen to stumble upon its fake Facebook pages.
Earlier this week, a report from the SANS Institute outlined the importance of patching not just operating systems, but all client-side software. In particular, the report mentioned popular software from Adobe needs to be patched, since it's widely used. It seems Adobe software is widely exploited, too.
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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