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How to Secure Your Jailbroken iPhone
Written by Sarah Perez / November 13, 2009 6:01 AM / 1 Comments

Earlier this week, the news of the first iPhone worm made its way around the net. Since the

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iPhone Game Maker Apologizes for Stealing Phone Numbers, Calls Lawsuit "Meritless"
Written by Sarah Perez / November 13, 2009 6:00 AM / 4 Comments

A federal lawsuit filed on Wednesday is charging an iPhone development firm with collecting users' cell phone numbers

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Facebook Settlement Gets Judge's OK
Written by Sarah Perez / October 26, 2009 6:10 AM / 0 Comments

Proposal Would Kill Beacon, Have Facebook Paying $9.5 Million Late last week, a federal judge in California gave

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How Safe are Facebook Applications?
Written by Sarah Perez / October 16, 2009 7:21 AM / 15 Comments

Recently, Roger Thompson, chief research officer at security firm AVG, discovered over half a dozen Facebook applications that

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Google Wave More Secure than Traditional Email
Written by Sarah Perez / October 15, 2009 7:17 AM / 7 Comments

Google Wave, the company's new real-time collaboration platform currently in private beta, is more secure than traditional email,

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Forget Google and Amazon, the DoD Shows Off What a Real Cloud Platform Can Do
Written by Sarah Perez / October 7, 2009 5:56 AM / 11 Comments

Just because computing is done in the cloud, that doesn't mean it has to be insecure and subject

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Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, and Others Also Hit by Phishing Attack
Written by Sarah Perez / October 6, 2009 6:06 AM / 7 Comments

Yesterday's phishing attack in which several thousand Hotmail username and password combinations were leaked to the web now

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Whoops! Students "Going Google" Get to Read Each Other's Emails
Written by Sarah Perez / September 18, 2009 6:21 AM / 9 Comments

A recent bug in Google Apps allowed students at several colleges to read each other's email messages and

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Microsoft, NY Times and Scareware Offenses
Written by Dana Oshiro / September 17, 2009 9:30 PM / 3 Comments

Microsoft is taking aim at malvertising in an effort to curb the phenomenon. The Redmond company filed five

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5 Easy Steps to Stay Safe (and Private!) on Facebook
Written by Sarah Perez / September 16, 2009 8:05 AM / 28 Comments

When the President of the United States warns schoolchildren to watch what they say and do on Facebook,

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Apple Explains How to Use iPhone's New Anti-Phishing Feature
Written by Sarah Perez / September 16, 2009 6:24 AM / 5 Comments

Amid the hubbub over new iPods and iTunes' LPs announced at last week's annual Apple event, one feature

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Researchers Discover Botnet Commanded by Google Groups
Written by Sarah Perez / September 14, 2009 7:42 AM / 4 Comments

New Trend: Web 2.0-controlled malware? Security researchers at Symantec recently uncovered a backdoor trojan whose spread is being

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What Facebook Quizzes Know About You
Written by Sarah Perez / August 27, 2009 7:29 AM / 40 Comments

The Northern California chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has put together a campaign to raise

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Is AT&T's Denial of Service to Hacker Justified?
Written by Dana Oshiro / August 20, 2009 7:30 PM / 26 Comments

Hacker turned security expert Kevin Mitnick has been denied service by both his web host and his cell

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Twitter's a Mess: First the DDOS, Now Koobface Returns
Written by Sarah Perez / August 10, 2009 6:16 AM / 11 Comments

Twitter can't catch a break these days. Still reeling from the ongoing denial-of-service attacks that hit late last

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The Cloud Isn't Safe?! (Or Did Black Hat Just Scare Us?)
Written by Sarah Perez / August 5, 2009 9:30 AM / 9 Comments

At last week's Black Hat USA conference in Las Vegas, a number of security researchers demonstrated new ways

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SlideShare Used to Spread Malware
Written by Sarah Perez / August 5, 2009 6:30 AM / 8 Comments

When it comes to spreading malware on the web, virus writers are nothing if not creative. We've seen

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Twitter Starts Filtering Malicious URLs
Written by Sarah Perez / August 3, 2009 6:22 AM / 17 Comments

One of the most popular activities on the microblogging service Twitter is sharing links. However, this activity is

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Are Mobile Botnets in Our Future?
Written by Sarah Perez / July 30, 2009 6:32 AM / 4 Comments

Today at the cybersecurity conference known as Black Hack, researchers Charlie Miller and Collin Mulliner will present an

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Security Guru Calls Chrome OS's Security Claims "Idiotic"
Written by Sarah Perez / July 9, 2009 8:33 AM / 38 Comments

Noted security guru Bruce Schneier, chief technologist at BT, has scoffed at Google's claims about its new OS,

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