Friday, February 03, 2012

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Microsoft researchers say anonymized data isn't so anonymous
Data routinely gathered in Web logs - IP address, cookie ID, operating system, browser type, user-agent strings - can threaten online privacy because they can be used to identify the activity of individual machines, Microsoft researchers say. Read More


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Must-have iPhone/iPad apps for Super Bowl XLVI
All the iPhone and iPad apps you'll need for the big game Read More

Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Bank of America team to wipe out phishing
Can industry heavyweights Google, PayPal, Microsoft and AOL -- along with 11 others in high-tech such as Facebook and LinkedIn, as well as the financial world's Bank of America and Fidelity Investments -- succeed in stopping phishing attacks right in their tracks? In uniting behind an effort called DMARC.org unveiled today, the group says it can through policy-based steps filter out spoofed email that attackers use for phishing. Read More

HTC Android phone flaw fix not coming until next week for some
Some users of HTC Android phones will have to wait until next week to get a fix for a problem that could leak credentials used to gain access to Wi-Fi networks, including corporate networks. Read More


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Microsoft team discovers malicious cookie-forwarding scheme
Microsoft researchers checking how easy it is to identify users by analyzing commonly collected Web-log data incidentally discovered a cookie-forwarding scheme that can be used to aid session hijacking. Read More

4 Ways to Prevent Domain Name Hijacking
On the night of Monday, January 23, the hacktivist group UGNazi hijacked Coach.com, the Internet domain name of luxury goods manufacturer Coach. For several hours, fashionistas who wanted to ogle Coach's new Willis handbag on Coach.com or get a deal on its Penelope shoulder bag at Coachfactory.com were redirected to UGNazi's cryptic website. Imagine the confusion--and frustration--the redirect must have caused in their coiffed little heads--not to mention the wear and tear on their manicured nails as they typed and retyped coach.com and coachfactory.com into their browser windows. Read More

For 'Malware as a Service' merchants, business is booming
Malware merchants have matured, and are more diversified and dangerous than ever. Read More


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Apple updates Lion, patches 51 bugs in Mac OS X
Apple on Tuesday patched 51 vulnerabilities in Mac OS X, most of them critical, in 2012's first security update. Read More

Kelihos botnet, once crippled, now gaining strength
A botnet that was crippled by Microsoft and Kaspersky Lab last September is spamming once again and experts have no recourse to stop it. Read More

5 key points from Google's privacy-policy letter to Congress
Google sent a 13-page letter to Congress this week that can be summarized in a single sentence: "We're not being evil." Read More

10 New Open Source Projects You May Not Know About
With so many open source software projects under way at any given moment, it can be difficult to keep tabs on all that's going on. Read More



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