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Your Gadgets and the Enemy Within

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Your cellphone, your digital camera and your color laser printer may be betraying your privacy without your knowing it, Eva Galperin, an activist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), told a sparse audience at the Web 2.0 Expo Thursday. The EFF classifies software or devices that act behind the user’s back to actively betray their…

LizaMoon Madness: Fast-Spreading SQL Attack Shills Bogus AV Software

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

An SQL injection attack dubbed “LizaMoon” by security vendor WebSense has spread itself all over the Web. WebSense, which spotted the attack, asserts that Google search results show more than 1.5 million URLs have a link with the same URL structure as the initial attack and that more than 500,000 URLs have a script link…

Easing the Throb of Mobile Security Headaches

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

There is no denying that mobile devices like tablets are changing the way we communicate, work and share information on the go — it’s the next logical step in the “post-PC” world. In fact, 200 million tablets could be sold annually by 2014, according to predictions, and cloud-based services are becoming a key feature for…

Keeping your Third-Party Service Provider in Line

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

It seems that every time we turn around, another major security breach has occurred. The latest was the data breach at Epsilon, which manages customer databases and provides third-party email marketing services to 2,500 corporate clients, including some of America’s biggest firms. That breach has led to the loss of client data at more than…

FBI Grabs Botnet’s Wheel, Steers Into Tree

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

The United States Department of Justice (DoJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have hammered the Coreflood botnet, which its owners used to conduct cyberfraud on a massive scale. They have seized five command and control (C&C) servers and 29 domain names registered in the United States, obtained a temporary restraining order that lets the…

Browser War: What Is It Good For?

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

In the past month or so, we’ve been inundated with announcements by browser makers of the latest versions of their products. Google, Microsoft, the Mozilla Foundation and Opera have all unveiled their latest and greatest browsers. Most of these companies unveiled full versions of their products after having them in beta for a while, but…

Facebook Security Improvements Require a Bit of Digging

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Facebook has introduced a number of security improvements aimed at better safeguarding users’ privacy. These enhancements came a day after Sophos published an open letterasking the site to tighten up its security. By all accounts, Sophos, which did not return TechNewsWorld’s call, was not impressed. Not that Facebook hastily revamped its controls because of Sophos…

Social Networks Are ‘Huge Boondoggle for Bad Guys’

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

You’ve gotta love social networking. It lets us make zillions of “friends” all over the world, it’s making corporations scramble to meet customer requirements, and it’s made Mark Zuckerberg and a few other people very, very rich. Unfortunately, cybercriminals are among those other people enriched by social networking. For instance, it’s believed cybercriminals mined data…

VCs and IT Security Firms: Not Much Love in the Air

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Although security breaches make the headlines regularly and Washington has plans to upgrade the security of the United States’ national infrastructure, up-and-coming IT security companies are having difficulty securing investment funds. The U.S. Defense Department plans to spend US$500 million on researching new cybersecurity technologies, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is putting up…

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