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Archive for February, 2010

Facebook Served As Primary Distribution Channel For Botnet Army

Posted by deepquest under Security (No Respond)

Internet security company NetWitness has just published a report that reveals an 18-month-long widespread hacker attack on computers worldwide whose topmost method of malware delivery was Facebook. However, while over 3500 Facebook login credentials were stolen, that’s a very tiny percentage given there are over 400 million users of this social media site. Yahoo and Hi5 […]

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Cyber Attack Drill Finds U.S. Unprepared For Doomsday Scenarios (really??)

Posted by deepquest under Security (No Respond)

According to the Bipartisan Policy Center, the United States isn’t prepared to respond to an attack on its computer networks. An exercise conducted earlier this week found that critical communication and electrical power systems could be seriously affected.

Facebook Denies ‘All Wrongdoing’ in ‘Beacon’ Data Breach

Posted by deepquest under Privacy, Security (No Respond)

Facebook is denying it illegally breached the privacy of its users in a proposed $9.5 million settlement to a class action challenging its program that monitored and published what users of the social-networking site were buying or renting from Blockbuster, Overstock and other locations. To settle allegations that the social networking site’s “Beacon” program breached […]

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Goodbye Iphone, Hello Nexus One (aka Google phone).

Posted by deepquest under Apple, iphone (No Respond)

After more than 2 years of loyal service of my 2G iphone, was about time to get a new mobile. Of course 3Gs was the one I looked at first being an old school Apple user. First Apple product used was more than 25 years. I assumed I can call myself an advanced Apple user. […]

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