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Computer security film from 1990 just as relevant today

Posted February 15, 2012 - 1:02 pm

Security issues in 1990 were just as big then, only the equipment has changed.
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How to keep your Facebook account from being hacked (really)

Posted January 10, 2012 - 1:17 pm

Want to prevent criminals from hacking your Timeline? Ignore those alarmist Facebook status updates and follow these steps instead.
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Porn storm swarms Facebook

Posted November 15, 2011 - 2:00 pm

Facebook is under a porn attack -- and the digital delinquents known collectively as 'Anonymous' may be behind it.
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'Leaked' FBI document calls Anonymous a national security threat

Posted September 12, 2011 - 1:52 pm

A document purportedly leaked form the FBI's criminal-profiling unit calls Anonymous not a collection of activists , but a unified criminal group focused on protest and social disruption.
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Did a dozen or so arrests kill off the Anonymous insurgency? Oh, sure

Posted July 22, 2011 - 7:30 am

During the hunt for Osama Bin Laden, being Al Queda's second in command became being the away team's red-shirt. Roughly three million were killed. Are the Anonymi taken by the FBI really the core group of ringleaders? Oh, sure. First or second in command. Every one of them.
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Due to technical difficulties, the jihad has been delayed

Posted June 30, 2011 - 10:45 am

Using what one expert called "sophisticated techniques," unknown hackers have taken down terrorist group al-Qaida's Internet operation.
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Security news about something other than LulzSec: FBI nails bank-account hackers

Posted June 23, 2011 - 11:01 am

It took cooperation from cops in U.S., Ukraine, Latvia and eight other countries to investigate and nail one 16-geek bank-robbing hacker gang. Good result; process does not scale.
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Forget cops; other hackers are taking down LulzSec and Anonymous

Posted June 22, 2011 - 11:24 am

Law enforcement in at least three countries are actively pursuing LulzSec, but the biggest damage so far has been done by other hackers fed up with LulzSec grandstanding.
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Being anonymous doesn't protect hackers from arrest in Spain, Turkey

Posted June 13, 2011 - 3:12 pm

Turkish authorities have arrested 32 people they accuse of being members of the Anonymous hactivist group, raising the stakes for global Anonymi, following the arrest of three alleged members in Spain Friday.
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Experts: Stuxnet is simplistic, kludgy, and about to crush you

Posted March 28, 2011 - 3:52 pm

Malware experts call Stuxnet techniques 'embarrassing;' virus-propagation experts predict knockoffs will start attacking everything in sight.
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Twitter put on double-secret FTC probation

Posted March 14, 2011 - 4:46 pm

Under a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, microblogging service Twitter has agreed to implement a better information-security policy following separate, successful hacks into user accounts in 2009.
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The Microsoft good news/bad news Patch Tuesday

Posted March 11, 2010 - 7:34 pm

Microsoft fixed a bunch of Windows problems. Yea! On the same day a major Internet Explorer zero day vulnerability was revealed. Boo!
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The IE Fix is in

Posted January 24, 2010 - 1:00 pm

First, the good news, Microsoft's fixed the IE bug used to attack Google. The bad news: the bug had been known for months.
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Security Risks on Your Macintosh

Posted May 8, 2009 - 11:25 am

Let's skip the jokes and snide comments about Mac users and the jokes and snide comments they make about Windows machines and security problems. Yes, Windows machines face the vast majority of security issues. However, Mac users should start feeling kinship, not contempt, for security plagued Windows users. And the first step for Mac users is to admit that their Mac has become a hacker target, and hackable as well. Not fun, but there it is.
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MafiaBoy Says People Are The Weakest Security Link

Posted April 15, 2009 - 10:56 am

It's weirdly painful yet helpful when successful hackers step out from the shadows and tell us how stupid we are and how they so easily shred our security. The latest episode of this long-running show occurred last week when MafiaBoy, or Michael Calce in meatspace, reminded us once again that social engineering remains the hacker's sharpest tool. ComputerWorld called it “MafiaBoy Spills the Beans.”
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No bidders for bat-shaped bread (and peeing for science)

Posted July 18, 2008 - 3:56 pm

In our collection of oddities this week we find some relief from stories about people making gobs of money selling stuff that looks like other stuff, NASA finally showing some concern about an issue that has troubled us all since we first stepped into the Apollo model at the science museum, and proof from the animal kingdom that Circuit City is a wretched store. Also, we exact our revenge on the iPhone 3G and we take a little time to mock a student hacker.
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