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Apple’s Ping dinged by spam

N8 — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 04:00:06 +0000

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The new iTunes-based social network is getting hit by comment spam since Apple apparently left it vulnerable through a lack spam or URL filtering, according to Sophos.

U.N. exec: Cyberwar could be ‘worse than tsunami’

N8 — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 04:00:05 +0000

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Proposal for a global “cyberpeace” treaty has met “a lot of resistance” from industrialized nations, says head of U.N.’s International Telecommunication Union.

Facebook adds new remote log-out security feature

N8 — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:00:04 +0000

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Facebook users who log in from multiple devices will soon have a way to make sure they are only logged in on the computer they are currently using.

Nigerian scam tops list of decade’s online cons

N8 — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:00:03 +0000

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Notices of winning the lottery and requests from Russian women who want to know you better are also up there on Panda Security’s ranking of decade’s top Net swindles.

Cars: the next hacking frontier?

N8 — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:03 +0000

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Efforts to modernize cars and make them safer and more energy efficient with embedded computers and wireless technologies are also increasing the risks that they could be hacked, security experts say.

Gmail, Skype now in India’s crosshairs

N8 — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:03 +0000

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India is poised to send notices to Google and Skype about the government’s inability to monitor e-mail and conversations.

‘LOL is this you?’ spam spreading via Facebook chat

N8 — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 04:00:05 +0000

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Spam message, which Facebook says it’s looking into, is similar to ones used on Twitter earlier this year.

Google working on Gmail spam issue

N8 — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 04:00:05 +0000

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Company says it’s fixing problem that first surfaced midweek for a small percentage of users whose e-mail messages were resent multiple times.