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Facebook does something about safety and security, experts yawn
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John Moe
Apr 20, 2011
Facebook rolled out some new features designed to improve security and address the ongoing issue of cyberbullying. Some of this stuff we talked...
Facebook and Android are getting attacked
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John Moe
Apr 20, 2011
The security company AVG, which specializes in internet and mobile internet security, says Facebook and Android are seeing an increase in malware...
Online security plan announcement today
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John Moe
Apr 15, 2011
Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt and Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) will hold an announcement...
Is Russia cracking down on the Internet?
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John Moe
Apr 13, 2011
Last week, we reported on the outage of blogging site Live Journal that left President Dmitry Medvedev miffed. This week, Reuters is reporting that...
Big security breach in Texas
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John Moe
Apr 12, 2011
Texas, you better sit down for this. Texas State Comptroller Susan Combs announced on Monday that the names, addresses, Social Security numbers and...
Where to go for Patch Tuesday
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John Moe
Apr 11, 2011
Here's a link to Microsoft's official page for the Patch Tuesday fixes coming on line this morning.
Certificate Authority infrastructure problem grows
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John Moe
Apr 6, 2011
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has found that 37,000 certificates have been given out to unauthorized names. That means you could be subjected...
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The list of companies in the Epsilon hack grows
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John Moe
Apr 6, 2011
Reuters reports we can add Verizon to the list of companies whose customers' email addresses were obtained by a hacker in the recent Epsilon data...
Symantec says watch out for targeted cyber attacks
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John Moe
Apr 5, 2011
Tuesday, the security company released its annual security review which finds we'll see a lot more targeted attacks in the coming year. Targeted...
Epsilon breach keeps growing
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John Moe
Apr 5, 2011
Yesterday, we (and lots of news sources) talked about the massive hack that took place at Epsilon. It's a company that handles email communications...