Four men were accused for purchasing and reselling more than one million tickets to various concerts and sport matches with a help of modern computer programs. Kenneth Lowson, Kristofer Kirsch, Faisal Nahdi and Joel Stevenson used a computer program to bypass protection tools that control the number of tickets that one person can buy. Usually [...] Read more on Four Computer Hackers Broke in Concert Ticket Sites

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Security research firm Sophos has made another survey about how social networks are used in order to distribute malware infections. During last year, the number of companies attacked by spam through social networks rose by 70 per cent. The research shows that Facebook is considered to be the most dangerous place of all social networks. [...] Read more on Do We Risk Using Social Networks?

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Harriton High School in Lower Merion School District near Philadelphia is one of the first schools that provided their students with MacBook laptops not only to use them at school but also for their individual use at home. Sounds like a great idea to bring the studies closer to the advantages of new technologies. However, [...] Read more on Students Have Been Spied by Their High School Using Webcams

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Perhaps you have already heard about Google Buzz application that is becoming more and more popular as many people are  more impatient to try it out. It’s not a big surprise that this new application caught an eye of cyber criminals as well, despite the fact that it’s pretty new. Comparing to attacks on other social [...] Read more on Newly launched Google Buzz became a victim of hackers

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If you are an active Internet user, you have probably experienced and reconciled the fact that you need to memorize usernames and passwords in order to subscribe to and get access to some of important websites. Many people have just couple combinations of passwords and usernames in order to make it easier to be remembered. A [...] Read more on What password do you use for your online bank account?

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Security experts are working really hard to find solutions to any existing protection problems. As soon as a new parasite appears they are starting to look for a way to handle it. Because of that, most of the threats are generally known for security professionals. However, cyber criminals do their work well too and no [...] Read more on Zero Day Threats. What is The Best Antivirus Software to Take Care of Them?

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At least 20.000 people have been recently sent an e-mail telling about tax refund deadline. The email pretends to have come from HM Revenue & Customs and gives a link to the application form online.Those who have received the email are recommended to fill it in. The form asks the details of your credit card [...] Read more on Fake Tax Refund Email is Spreading to Inboxes

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The entire network of the University of Exeter in England had to be shut down because of the virus infection the University had suffered on Monday. It is still not clear what kind of malware has done this damage but according to David Allen, Registrar and Deputy Chief Executive of the University, it came through [...] Read more on University of Exeter shut down its network because of the attack of a virus

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On Friday, The German Federal Office for Information (BSI) Security warned computer users against using Internet Explorer version 6, 7 and 8 because of the attacks by hackers on Google server. They encourage people to switch from Internet Explorer to Firefox or Google Chrome. However, Cliff Evans, head of security and privacy in Microsoft, doesn’t think [...] Read more on Germany and France ask their citizens to be cautious about Internet Explorer

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Nothing can stop cyber criminals of finding new ways to deceive people in order to get their money.  FBI has made an announcement to warn people of the scam emails where people are asked to donate for those who have suffered from the earthquake in Haiti. The catastrophe caused hundreds of deaths and damage to [...] Read more on Cyber Criminals Use Haiti’s Tragedy to Swindle More Money

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Rootkit infection is one of the worst infections a computer user may be challenged. Typically, rootkits hide their presence on the system evading standard operating system security scan, anti-virus or anti-spyware scan. Often, they can be Trojans, thus trying to make users to believe they are safe to run on their systems. Rootkits modifies the [...] Read more on Don't Get Infected by Rootkits!

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Be aware! Publishers of rogue anti-spyware programs involved Skype and have created fake profiles with a reason to trick PC users into entering malicious website and purchasing useless and software. Many Skype users have been sent corrupt messages from usernames like “Online Notification” or similar ones, containing fabricated computer scan. Messages announce about various programs being [...] Read more on Fake Notification Appears on Skype!

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The botnet, that was responsible for roughly a third of the world’s spam mail was recently taken down by the security firm FireEye. The disappearance of the botnet, known as Ozdok or Mega-D, may well go unnoticed by most users, due to the fact that most of it’s IPs were already blacklisted by most e-mail services. [...] Read more on Largest Source of Spam Taken Down by FireEye

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On August 2009 Symantec’s Website presented computer users with the top 100 of the Dirtiest Web Sites of this Summer. Symantec’s ratings service prepared the list of infected websites which were lined up according to the number of threats which were detected by Norton Safe Web, the software which is based on analyzing different infections [...] Read more on The Top 100 of the Dirtiest Web Sites of Summer 2009

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Koobface is a worm, which mostly attacks computers in the social network websites, just like Twitter or Facebook. This parasite spreads itself through the fake links but now a few twists have been added and Koobface has become more dangerous for the unsuspecting computer users. The latest attack of Koobface came via a link which suggests [...] Read more on Koobface the Worm Becomes More Dangerous

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