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Ten little things to secure your online presence
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Ryan Naraine
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Ryan Naraine
Prior to joining Kaspersky Lab, Ryan was Editor-at-Large/Security at eWEEK, leading the magazine's and Web site's coverage of Internet and computer security issues and managing the popular SecurityWatch blog, covering the daily threats, vulnerabilities and IT security technologies. He also covered IT security, hacker attacks and secure content management topics for Jupiter Media's internetnetnews.com.
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Dancho Danchev
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Dancho Danchev
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Hackers pounce on just-patched Windows Media vulnerability
The end result is a malicious Trojan with rootkit capabilities. The attack happens silently in the background and all the user sees is a blank WMP application playing a file.
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How SCADA highlights the futility of finding security vulnerabilities
Pete Lindstrom argues that ‘irresponsible’ disclosure of security holes in SCADA systems could put human lives at risk and calls on the security research community to start thinking...
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Microsoft: 'Kelihos' botnet master worked for AV vendor
Microsoft pinpoints a Russian software developer who is being accused of creating, operating and growing the notorious Kelihos botnet.
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CanSecWest Pwn2Own hacker challenge gets a $105,000 makeover
HP Zero Day Initiatives revamps the annual hacker contest to put more zero-day vulnerabilities and exploits in play.
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DreamHost hacked, mass password-reset issued
According to a blog post at DreamHost Status Blog, the company has detected a security breach at one of their database servers.
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Research: Spammers actively harvesting emails from Twitter in real-time
Security researchers from WebSense, have conducted an experiment, proving that Twitter is still a heaven for spammers looking to harvest freshly shared email addresses.
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New variants of premium rate SMS trojan 'RuFraud' detected in the wild
Researchers from AegisLab, have intercepted several new variants of the infamous RuFraud premium rate SMS trojan.
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Researchers spot scammers using fake browser plug-ins
Security researchers from Symantec, have spotted a fake browser plugin-in currently circulating in the wild.
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Was Koobface exposé the right move?
Stefan Tanase argues that the public outing of the Koobface hacker gang makes it even more difficult for law enforcement to act.
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TED video: Three types of online attacks
Mikko Hypponen talks about the three types of online attacks on our privacy and data — but only two are considered crimes.
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