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Graham Cluley explains how hackers are exploiting social networks.
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Sophos podcast explores the rise of cybercrime on Facebook and Twitter
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Spammers defy Bill Gates’s death-of-spam prophecy and get creative with social networking in Q4 2008
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Five years on, spam continues to plague users, as US ends another year at the top of the Dirty Dozen spam-relaying league.
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MS09-001 - Critical: Vulnerabilities in SMB Could Allow Remote Code Execution (958687)
Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This security update resolves several privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Server Message Block (SMB) Protocol. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution on affected systems. An attacker who successfully exploited these vulnerabilities could install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Firewall best practices [...]
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Clinic 3402: ASP.NET for PHP Developers: Introduction to ASP.NET
In this clinic, you learn about ASP.NET as a Web development platform and how it compares to PHP. You will explore features including Server Controls, Master Pages, and Profiles. Additionally you will also learn about Visual Web Developer Express, a powerful free tool for authoring ASP.NET Web sites.
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How Twitter accounts were hacked, Sophos calls for improved password security
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The accounts of Britney Spears, Barack Obama, Fox News and others were breached due to poor security practices.
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Microsoft Security Advisory (961509): Research proves feasibility of collision attacks against MD5 - 12/30/2008
Revision Note: Advisory published Advisory Summary:Microsoft is aware that research was published at a security conference proving a successful attack against X.509 digital certificates signed using the MD5 hashing algorithm. This attack method would allow an attacker to generate additional digital certificates with different content that have the same digital signature as an original certificate. [...]
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Celebrity Twitter account hacks raise serious security questions, says Sophos
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Break-in at accounts of Britney Spears and Barack Obama more worrying than widespread phishing scam which troubled Twitters.
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