The internet has again suffered a hiccup when the untimely death of “The King of Pop”, sent millions to file query’s on the web’s most trusted source for quick searches, Google News. The problem, the system treated the mass query as a DoS attack and barred itself shut, denying the hungry for news of their [...]
Read More..>>Still considered to be the largest security threat the world over, human nature defies explanation even with terabyte calculations to predict what people would do and how they would react to stimuli. The internet has suffered a lot mainly due to human error, failure of equipment that was already way past their prime, cables dug [...]
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Comments(0) The US Government has finally toughened it’s stance and taken the advise of some security experts on how to bets address cyber-security to bolster their ability to deal with the rising threat from the internet that has been plaguing the many government servers and computers deployed all over the globe. They hired a black-hat, Jeff [...]
Read More..>>The internet has changed the lives of all people on earth, getting news out faster than traditional media, reaching out to for social functions and many more. It has also become the battle ground between the people who aim to gain information and those who own them, with the people who protect us from such [...]
Read More..>> Comments(0) The malicious scriptwriters out there are churning out what they can to make you click on their site, but according to the report below, a lot of you didn’t fall for their shenanigans:
The investigation, conducted by McAfee(R) SiteAdvisor(TM), studied the five major U.S. search engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, Ask) and found that the [...]
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There is a new spyware fraud that is made to look like the Windows Security Center. It almost is identical to the original except for the red boxes added to it. The malware will force you to purchase the WinDefender 2008 software which [...]
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Today is a bad day for us to browse the internet unarmed with knowledge. That is because hackers have found a new place to burn. YouTube. Some of the videos in Youtube contain links to malicious pages, or links that makes you download a malware, that allows hackers to save your keystrokes, [...]
In another nail to the heart of the internet security, the personal information along with Social Security details for over 100,000 doctors in Wausau Wisconsin were posted online for two months before anybody even noticed and took action. This seems to be the norm of today’s internet, where information is available to mostly everybody without [...]
Read More..>>Everybody is being warned of the probability that attacks in the form of phishing scams aimed to obtain personal financial information this coming tax season. Tax payment season is fast approaching and the IRS has said it again and again that it will never contact you through email in anyway. More than 3,000% projected increase [...]
Read More..>>Search engines are again being targeted due to their increased popularity on the internet (who doesn’t use them???). Weaknesses in the security of their web sites have them being probed again and again for vulnerabilities which if found are immediately exploited. Similar to the past Google Attacks which had several hundred seemingly valid and authorized [...]
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