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Latest News Updates Tonight Myloweslife.com is a website created by Lowe's to offers online services to all Lowe's Employees.By logging onto this system, enter your Sales ID and Password. You are subject to the terms and conditions of all Information Security policies and standards.Latest News Updates Tonight Myloweslife.com is a website created by Lowe's to... more
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Peripheral manufacturer Razer was left with egg on its face this week by the revelation that it had been unwittingly distributing malware with its driver updates.
(http://www.gizmogamer.com/content/razer-ships-malware-drivers) see article for more details.Peripheral manufacturer Razer was left with egg on its face this week by the... more
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Yes, we know we've covered the biggest e-mail scams before, but criminals never stop coming up with new ways to mess you up via the Internet, so we've decided it's time for an update -- this time focusing on specific e-mails to watch out for (that is, if you want to avoid everything from garden variety financial scams and computer viruses to flat-out ID theft). As always, remember there are variations on each of these cons, so be wary of anything even resembling what you read in the following pages....Yes, we know we've covered the biggest e-mail scams before, but criminals never... more
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In a surprise move, Microsoft has announced it will offer a free anti-virus and security solution from the second half of next year.In a surprise move, Microsoft has announced it will offer a free anti-virus and... more
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Nearly one million UK children are using their parents' credit cards to shop online without their knowledge ...
... 70 percent of UK children know the sites where their parents shop online and a further 20 percent know the passwords and usernames for their parents online shopping accounts.
Parents are in the dark when it comes to their kids' behaviour as only 2 percent think their children would make online purchases without their permission and only six percent admitted their kids have access to their credit card details. However, with 44 percent of parents book-marking their favourite online shopping sites and a third saving their bank card details online, they're making it very easy for their children to buy online without their knowledge.Nearly one million UK children are using their parents' credit cards to shop... more
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Yahoo has closed a gaping hole that attackers were exploiting to gain access to victims' Yahoo Mail accounts and other restricted areas of site.
The cross site scripting error in the hotjobs.yahoo.com domain allowed the attackers to inject cleverly obfuscated javascript into the page that silently siphoned the cookies used to authenticate Yahoo users when they log in to sections of the portal that require a password. Armed with the cookies, attackers were then given broad control over the victim's Yahoo account, including Yahoo Email and any other service that uses authentication cookies belonging to the yahoo.com domain.
"I guess the beautiful bit about it from an attacker's viewpoint is quite a lot of people would be unaware of what's happened" after accessing a booby-trapped hotjobs URL, said Paul Mutton, an internet services developer for Netcraft who helped discover the exploit. "Not many people will think of changing their password after that happens."
more...Yahoo has closed a gaping hole that attackers were exploiting to gain access to... more
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Scammers are sending out phoney e-mails that claim to include critical Windows security alerts, Microsoft warned Monday.
The fake alerts describe themselves as part of a new "experimental private version of an update for all Microsoft Windows OS users," Microsoft said in a note on the scam, posted Monday.
The e-mails then instruct the victim to download an attachment, which is actually a malicious Trojan Horse program known as Win32/Haxdoor. This software records sensitive information such as passwords and credit card numbers and sends this data back to the attackers who are running the scam.
The malware well-known, however, and is detected by antivirus programs as well as Microsoft's free Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT).
The warning comes the day before Microsoft is set to deliver 11 genuine security fixes. These updates, due Tuesday at around 10 a.m. Pacific include critical security updates for Windows Active Directory, Internet Explorer, Excel and the Microsoft Host Integration Server.
But they will be delivered via Microsoft's standard automated update tools. Major software vendors such as Microsoft simply do not distribute security patches via email.
"As a matter of company policy, Microsoft will never send you an executable attachment," wrote Microsoft spokesman Christopher Budd in a blog posting on the scam. "If you get an e-mail that claims to be a security notification with an attachment, delete it. It is always a spoof."
Microsoft does, however, send out security notification emails to customers who have asked to be told whenever patches are released or updated. These emails are in plain text and never contain any sort of attachment, Budd said.
Users who have doubts about any security notification email they've received can go to Microsoft's TechNet security Web site, which contains the same information as its e-mail notifications.
Copyright © 2008 IDG News Service. All rights reserved. IDG News Service is a trademark of International Data Group, Inc.Scammers are sending out phoney e-mails that claim to include critical Windows... more
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Very interesting articles about Wifi security and work place surveillance.
Check it out
http://smart-pc.blogspot.com/Very interesting articles about Wifi security and work place surveillance.
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Kevin Mitnick knows that the weakest link in any security system is the person holding the information.
As a young fugitive hacker, he went to jail for breaking into computer networks, mostly by using his cunning and persuasion than his tech skills. He was an early master of the science of social engineering--manipulating people into doing what you want, such as giving out passwords and other information that unlocks sensitive information on networks.
Mitnick and a panel of other hackers discussed their social engineering pranks and gave live demonstrations at the Live HOPE (Hackers on Planet Earth) conference late on Saturday.
Kevin Mitnick knows that the weakest link in any security system is the person holding... more
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You do't have to pay a cent to keep your computer secure against the bad guys.
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Turkish hackers broke into two of the most established international Websites that oversee and regulate the Internet in order to reroute visitors to a rogue domain, the New York Times reported Friday.
Two of the domains under attack include the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN, icann.org) and the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA (iana.org) -- two organizations that that have dominion over numerous critical functions regarding Internet regulation.
(More at link above)Turkish hackers broke into two of the most established international Websites that... more
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Want to worm your way into a woman’s email inbox? It’s easy, just buy her a bar of chocolate and the password’s all yours. Or so claim security analysts Infosecurity Europe, who polled 576 office workers outside Liverpool Street Station in London, as part of their Information Security Awareness week which starts on the 21st April.
According to the survey, 45 per cent of women were quite happy to give strangers, posing as market researchers, their email password, in return for a chocolate bar, as opposed to only 10 per cent of men. Hmmm…Wonder what the results would have been if they’d offered beer?
The unsuspecting workers were asked to fill out a survey which was actually nothing more than a cover for social engineering research to prove that gullible (and snack crazed) people would give out all kinds of information for chocolaty treats.
Despite the fact that many people still fell for the trick, Infosecurity reckons that on the whole, people did a lot better than last year, when they performed the same sort of test. In 2007 a whopping 64 per cent of people were prepared to give away their passwords for a chocolate bar, but this year only 21 per cent succumbed to the temptation. Maybe this year’s crowd are dieting.
Want to worm your way into a woman’s email inbox? It’s easy, just buy her... more
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Here a few insecure security cameras I found using Google. You simply put the IP address in the URL and you have instant access to them. There are literally thousands of unprotected surveillance cameras viewable over the Internet from around the world. Some cameras are movable and have audio.Here a few insecure security cameras I found using Google. You simply put the IP... more
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A Computer Associates security researcher says that Facebook's controversial Beacon online ad system goes much further than expected in tracking people's Web activities.A Computer Associates security researcher says that Facebook's controversial... more
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