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Steve Ragan
A recent report from Barracuda Labs highlights the differences between real Facebook profiles, and the fake ones often used to propagate spam and other scams on the popular social network, which just so happens to be heading for a lucrative IPO.
The company that still maintains a large footprint in the Internet’s SSL market, and controls the root DNS for the .com, .net, and .gov domain space, was repeatedly attacked in 2010, resulting in at least one successful breach.
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For the last year, discussions about the risk mobile devices, and the applications they run, have filled the headlines and annual reports of countless security vendors.
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The Bureau of Justice Assistance and the FBI, as part of the Communities Against Terrorism program (think “See Something / Say Something”), have released a flyer outlining several potential indicators of terrorist activities within Internet Cafés.
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The RSA Conference, one of the world’s largest Information Security gatherings, is facing criticism after it failed to reach a compromise over scheduling conflicts with a smaller event.
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Hundreds of websites developed with the WordPress platform were hijacked recently, and used to compromise systems leveraging a recently patched Java vulnerability. In each case, the compromised domain was using an outdated version of WordPress.
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On Friday, eleven, an email security firm based in Germany, issued a warning to users to be on the lookout for spam that is taking advantage email client settings that allow messages to render HTML.
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According to a subsidiary of Visa, CyberSource, the amount of fraudulent orders online dropped to a 13-year low in 2011, but the cost of combating it is still on the rise. On top of this, successful criminals are taking more per-transaction, to the tune of $3.1 billion dollars.
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Twitter is adding another layer of security to their engineering department.
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On January 25, the European Commission will propose an overhaul to privacy rules that have existed as they are for more than 15-years, with a focus on reinforcing individuals’ rights, strengthening the EU market, and ensuring a high level of data protection.
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