Security

“Free” Parking Facilities are the Next Hacker’s Target

August 11, 2009 in General Tech, Security

Imagine this: You can swipe a smart payment card through parking meter, and reload it online or even automatically. Or…how’s this one?: You can park your car anytime WITHOUT parking fees!! Do those ideas ever crossed your mind?
Well, if so, i guess hackers at this year’s Black Hat security conference shall make your dream come [...]

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Malware in Facebook

August 1, 2009 in General Tech, Security

As a social network, Facebook has successfully enlisted about 200 million people all over the world as its users. Such popularity, combined with the user’s common lack-of-knowledge on the complex security issues surrounding their favorite social network, will no wonder act as a magnet for kinds of malware and financial scams.
The attacks varied into wide [...]

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Electrical Outlets for Data-Stealing

July 31, 2009 in Security

Who would have guessed, that a simple, mediocre-looking, old-fashioned electrical outlet would allow us to perform such tricks as on the movies where experienced hackers magically managed to move pages of  top-secret information right onto their laps in seconds?
Yet, those magicians already planning to reveal their secrets of stealing some computer keyboard-typed information’s, at the [...]

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Spam level *declines*… to 97 percent of all email

April 9, 2009 in Security, Systems

If you believe that you are much spam these days, then, because you are. Microsoft in the latest six-monthly report on the state of IT security that the society in the second half of the year 2008 a full 97.3 percent of the e-mail traffic was spam not desired (e-mail such as phishing or malicious [...]

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Can of worms

January 26, 2009 in Internet, Security

Experts in the field of security on the Internet are increasingly concerned about a new worm infected millions of computers worldwide. The infection, known under the name “Conficker” or “Downadup”, characterized by a new vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. So far, the worm in the companies, governments and personal networks and devices such as USB sticks.
Although [...]

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