| Network World on Twitter Get our tweets and stay plugged in to networking news. 5 Facebook Scams: Protect Your Profile Beny Rubinstein knows computer security. An employee of a Seattle-area tech giant with 20 years of IT experience under his belt, Rubinstein has seen a side of the industry that most people will never know. He holds a degree in computer engineering, and - oh yeah - he just got scammed out of $1100 on Facebook. Most Oracle database shops don't mandate security patch use A continuing lack of corporate mandates to quickly install Oracle's security patches may be leaving many Oracle database installations exposed to vulnerabilities for extended periods of time, according to survey results released on Wednesday. Exposed Web site a reminder for use of multiple passwords A Christian singles Web site called Singles.org was infiltrated by hackers last weekend, reportedly absconding with the secret passwords of over 9,000 of its users. Visa: New payment-processor data breach not so new after all Days after Visa Inc. seemingly confirmed that a data breach had taken place at a third payment processor, following on the recent breach disclosures by Heartland Payment Systems Inc. and RBS WorldPay Inc., the credit card company now is saying that there was no new security incident after all. Stop Worms From Automatically Spreading, Easily One of the ways the Conficker worm and other, similar malware slimes its way from computer to computer is by taking advantage of the Autorun feature in Windows. If Conficker finds removable media (like a USB drive) on a PC it infects, it will infect that media in such a way that it will exploit Autorun to attempt to automatically infect a new computer when the drive is connected. Hope for a New Cybersecurity Administration Politically, it seems to be a time to be full of hope. Despite the slumping economy and the challenges that lie before us, hope takes on two forms for me this year: Adventures in data recovery Russian hackers hold a casino site hostage, a Venezuelan town mistakes disk drives for organ transfers and a Toronto hospital needs ER for RAID array. Three adventure tales from CBL Data Recovery. | 
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