Sponsored Study Finds Cybercrime Costs Rising
HP and the Ponemon Institute today unveiled a new security study that shows the cost and frequency of cybercrime has risen for the third year in a row.
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Malware Infested Twitter Messages Contain Fake Facebook Links
Twitter users need to be on the lookout for a new round of malware-carrying spam messages that are coming from compromised accounts, possibly even from Twitter profiles they trust.
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Cybercrime On The Rise For Mobile And Social
Cybercrime is perhaps the most devastating, yet most preventable, form of crime. Victims can have their lives utterly destroyed by a hacker. Those same victims often share a part in the blame because it could have been easily prevented by using some common sense and utilizing online security tools that are freely available to all.
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Fake Facebook Tag Notifications Are Latest Malware
If you receive an email that looks like it's from Facebook and says that you've been tagged in a photo, you may want to scour it for abnormalities. That's because the latest malware on the loose involves a common Facebook email notification.
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Did Anonymous Hack The PSN Again?
Here we go again.
The Twitter feed for YourAnonNews just alerted everybody to a PasteBin dump that claims to have hacked the PSN. The guy behind it says that he's not on Twitter, Facebook or IRC. I've never heard of an Anonymous member not on IRC, but let's indulge him for now.
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Apple Takes Security Precautions In Light Of Honan Hacking
One of this week's big tech stories has been the hacking of Wired reporter Mat Honan, who had his digital life "destroyed" by hackers, after they took over his Google account, his Twitter account, and his AppleID.
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China Targets Internet Crime
China is becoming more and more of a progressive nation in terms of economic policies and personal freedoms. That being said, the communist government still flexes their power from time to time. It's unfortunate that the Internet was the victim in the latest round of arrests.
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New Malware Checkpoint For Facebook Allows Users To Be Proactive In Security
Back in April, Facebook launched the Facebook Anti-Virus Marketplace, which allows users to obtain free trials of anti-virus software from big names like McAfee, Sophos, Symantec, and Microsoft. They also incorporated those company's databases into their own URL blacklist database to better help them sniff out potential threats on the site.
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Google Apps Improves Its Security
Google announced today that it has implemented two new security features into Google Apps. One enables tighter password verification for businesses, and the other enhances Microsoft Active Directory integration. The announcement came from Rishi Dhand, product manager for Google Apps, in a blog post over at the Official Google Enterprise Blog.
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Facebook Accused Of Killing Google+ Traffic With Faulty Security Alerts
Is Facebook purposefully scaring users with questionable security alerts in order to cut traffic to Google+?
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