Twitter prepares to launch own link shortener to boost security
Last Updated on Thursday, 10 June 2010 01:40 Written by External Post Thursday, 10 June 2010 01:40
Twitter has announced it is another step closer to launching its own web link shortener to boost security, which could push out popular services such as bit.ly and tinyurl. IT security researchers have repeatedly highlighted the potential threat of link
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Cybercriminals trading in large volumes of Facebook accounts, say researchers
Last Updated on Wednesday, 5 May 2010 01:40 Written by External Post Wednesday, 5 May 2010 01:40
Cybercriminals are selling fake and stolen accounts on social networking site Facebook in bulk in the underground economy, according to security researchers. Criminals typically use Facebook accounts to send spam, send links to malicious software and to
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Google Says Spam Volumes On the Rise
Last Updated on Thursday, 15 April 2010 06:00 Written by External Post Thursday, 15 April 2010 06:00
alphadogg writes ‘Despite security researchers’ efforts to cut spam down to size, it just keeps growing back. The volume of unsolicited email in the first quarter was around 6 percent higher than a year earlier, according to Google’s e-mail filtering
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Internet attack breaks network security
Last Updated on Thursday, 1 April 2010 02:00 Written by External Post Thursday, 1 April 2010 02:00
Security researchers have uncovered a major flaw in the internet fabric, which could circumvent network security and allow rogue users to access any computer on the planet. According to a research paper published by the academics at the Institute of
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Google To Pay $500 For Bugs Found In Chromium
Last Updated on Saturday, 30 January 2010 12:15 Written by External Post Saturday, 30 January 2010 12:15
Trailrunner7 writes to mention that a new program from Google could pay security researchers $500 for every security bug found in Chromium. Of course if you find a particularly clever bug you could be eligible for a $1337 reward. ‘Today, we are
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Hackers Find Home In Amazon EC2 Cloud
Last Updated on Friday, 11 December 2009 02:30 Written by External Post Friday, 11 December 2009 02:30
snydeq writes ‘Security researchers have spotted the Zeus botnet running an unauthorized command and control center on Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing infrastructure. This marks the first time Amazon Web Services’ cloud infrastructure has been used for this
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