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Criminal Charges For iPad Data Theft

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The US District Attorney for New Jersey has announced that criminal charges will be brought against attackers who stole information from iPad users on the AT&T network. The U.S. Department of Justice will be filing the claims, and the case will be seen in the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the District of New Jersey. The [...]

Google Adds Spam Protection By Allowing Senders To Sign E-Mails

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Google App customers will be able to take advantage of new Google technology called DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM). The technology will guarantee that the sender is genuine. DKIM has been employed by Google since 2008 to help Gmail users to confirm that messages from eBay and PayPal are genuine. This has helped Gmail users steer [...]

Stolen ITunes Accounts Are Sold On Chinese Auction Site

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Recently a store in China has begun selling stolen Apple accounts. The accounts are still active and are attached to active credit cards. They’re claiming that it allows the customer up to $200 on the iTunes store for less than $30. Roughly 50,000 accounts are being sold at taobao.com, prices ranging from 1 to 200 [...]

Majority Of Smartphone Apps Are Used To Spy On The Users

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According to a recent post in the Wall Street Journal, you might want to watch what sort of information you put in your smart phone. These smart phones contain not just your personal information, but also the numbers and addresses of your friends and family, your current location and a unique ID number that can [...]

Airforce Decides To Block Sites That Post Wikileaks Documents

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The US Air Force has decided to stop all of its personnel from looking at any site that could potentially contain any information from Wikileaks. The Airforce has already blocked sites such as the New York Times, Spain’s El Pais, France’s Le Monde, Germany’s Der Spiegel, and the U.K.’s Guardian. Although these are all reputable [...]

Report: Internet Explorer By Far The Safest

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NSS released data on Tuesday, showing that internet users who come into contact with malicious websites are five times less likely to suffer if they are using Internet Explorer’s browser, IE9. This is in comparison to Mozilla Firefox users. In September NSS tested browsers to see how they would fare against socially engineered malware. They [...]

Gawker Disaster Is Spilling Over To Other Major Websites

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A great number of Internet patrons are being warned to change their passwords as more is learned about a significant security risk. Many social and gaming sites, such as Twitter have told users to reset their passwords after hackers broke into the gossip site Gawker. Online game World of Warcraft WoW, has asked some of [...]

Gawker Media Hacked, Millions Of Passwords Stolen

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Gawker Media, a series of websites was recently hacked. The Gawker Media brand websites Fleshbot, Deadspin, Jatopnik, kotaku, Gawer, Gizmodo, Jezebel, oi9, and Lifehacker have recently had nearly 1.5 million registered usernames and passwords stolen. Some theorize that the hacking was done by 4chan members. This cannot be proven, but it is not out of [...]

Wikileaks Renegades Start New Whistleblower Website

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Dagens Nyhete (DN.se) a Swedish newspaper reports some important persons from Wikileaks are about to launch a new rival whistleblower website called “Openleaks” on Monday morning. Meanwhile the 39 year-old founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange is behind bars in UK pending accusation of sexual molestation and rape charges in Sweden. He had turned himself in [...]

Removable Storage Devices Banned By Military

The diligent attempts to maintain confidentiality in government matters are a goal, standard and requirement of today’s military. Despite this, thousands of classified documents were leaked from the Pentagon and the fear arose that highly confidential documents and information would be inappropriately accessed and, consequently abused. Wikileaks are therefore considered a serious threat to the [...]