Security Expert Warns Of Rigged Election
Security vulnerabilities in electronic voting machines threaten to skew results in the upcoming national election, says a Republican security expert. Stephen Spoonamore has come forward as a whistleblower willing to testify in an Ohio court case stemming from the 2004 Presidential elections.
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Date: 2008-09-30
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EvilFingers Srike Again At Google’s Chrome
Security researchers at EvilFingers.com, who identified the first security vulnerabilities in Google's beta web browser, Chrome, have delivered a proof of concept demonstrating malicious agents could exploit a memory exhaustion denial-of-service attack.
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Date: 2008-09-26
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Brad Pitt Most Dangerous Man On Internet
Brad Pitt may be pretty, but he's also the guy most likely to give you something…on your computer. He and Justin Timberlake are considered the most dangerous men on the Internet, according to a recent McAfee report.
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Date: 2008-09-25
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Study Shows People Too Hasty With Popup Warnings
Student behavior in a study on popup warnings at North Carolina State University bodes ill for the rest of the population: most were so eager to remove popup obstacles to their tasks, they didn't care how they got rid of it. If in the wild, such impulsive behavior could have earned them some malware.
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Date: 2008-09-24
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Update: Palin’s Hacker Identified
Well, that didn't take long. The Anonymous hacker who broke into Sarah Palin's Yahoo email address has been identified as the son of a Tennessee state representative. And as postulated earlier, he gained access via the "forgot my password" security function.
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Date: 2008-09-19
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What Palin’s Email Hack Means To You
Regardless of how you feel about Alaska Governor and John McCain's running mate Sarah Palin using a Yahoo email account to conduct official state business, you likely joined many in gasping at the audacity of a team of anonymous hacker vigilantes.
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Date: 2008-09-18
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Back To School Malware Botnets
Back to school season carries its own traditions: shopping, homework, decreased social networking, and now botnet malware attacks on US schools and government organizations.
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Date: 2008-09-16
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Greek Hackers Aim To Teach CERN a Lesson
At the rate they're going they could end the world next week. So mark your calendars. But please-please oh please-stop trying to hack their systems. Only they know how to prevent a black hole from sucking us into oblivion, and messing with their junk is just a bad idea, right?
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Date: 2008-09-15
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Google’s Having Fun With Numbers
Nobody's going to challenge Google's skill with math-its algorithm is currently on the path toward world domination-and the company's banking on those mad skills dizzy privacy and security experts and, more importantly, regulators to push their new anonymizing standards proffered to the EU. In addition to better ads and search results, Google justifies its need for such data by efforts to fight search worms.
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Date: 2008-09-12
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London Is Too In Canada, Obama’s Not In Ukrainian Blue
Sophos is reporting two sensationalist, malware-carrying emails circulating cyberspace, one involving an explosion at a London nuclear facility and the other purporting to have a dirty Barack Obama video. As you might guess, both are bogus and carrying nasty surprises.
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Date: 2008-09-11
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McAfee Takes Security To The Clouds
McAfee unveiled its new Artemis Technology, which utilizes cloud computing technology to address security threats in real time. The company claims Artemis "dramatically increases the level of computer security."
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Date: 2008-09-09
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Germany Shrieks At Google Datenkrake!
There's nothing more entertaining than a bunch of ticked off Germans. The melodrama, the propaganda, the beer-fueled outrage spilling into their lederhosen; the last time Germany sounded this upset they…oh, never mind. Maybe the chants of "Datenkrake!" spawning from Google's beta release of Chrome should be taken seriously after all.
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Date: 2008-09-08
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Botnets Increase Four Fold Over Summer
Both the number of botnets and the size of individual botnets have quadrupled in the past 90 days, according to security researchers. Despite the sudden influx, spam and malware has not increased correspondingly, making the case more mysterious.
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Date: 2008-09-04
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Word To The Wise: Don’t Fire Your IT Guy
In case you didn't know, it's kind of important to be nice to your IT staff. You know why? Yeah, you know why; they have access to everything and can sink or expose your entire system. And guess what? A recent survey pegs 88 percent or 300 IT security pros as willing to take you down with them in a blaze of data.
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Date: 2008-09-02
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