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Apple stops password resets after iCloud hack
Apple has told its support staff not to process password change requests that come in via the phones. An Apple customer service representative said that Apple was halting all AppleID password resets by phone. Read More


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Federal watchdog calls on FCC to reassess mobile phone radiation issues
Noting that the Federal Communications Commission's Radio Frequency exposure limits may not reflect the latest research, and testing requirements may not identify maximum exposure in all possible usage conditions, the Government Accountability Office today said the agency should reassess and possibly change its regulations regarding mobile phone radiation. Read More

Why would tech support call you? Don't fall for phishing
Well, most of the time, we would not call you. But even though support teams rarely make calls to customers, there has been a rise in a social engineering attack where someone impersonating support staff calls and informs the IT department that there is a bug in such-and-such a system. Even though customers know they don't normally receive calls from support, they are willing to provide impersonators... Read More

Shylock malware injects rogue phone numbers in online banking websites
New configurations of the Shylock financial malware inject attacker-controlled phone numbers into the contact pages of online banking websites, according to security researchers from antivirus vendor Symantec. Read More


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No bomb powerful enough to destroy an on-rushing asteroid, sorry Bruce Willis
Maybe it's the doom predictions some folks are fearing about the end of the Mayan calendar this year or maybe these guys are obsessed with old Bruce Willis movies. Either way a class of physics students from the University of Leicester decided to evaluate whether or not the premise of Willis' 1998 "Armageddon" movie -- where a group of oil drillers is sent by NASA to detonate nucle Read More

The Honan Hack Is The Alamo For Two Factor Authentication
By now I hope you have read about the devastating hack of Wired writer Mat Honan. It serves as a chilling example of how much of our lives are in the digital sphere today and what can happen if they keys to that sphere fall into the wrong hands. Reading Honan's story I was of course empathizing with him because of my own nightmare with passwords being hacked. Read More

How to Send Sensitive Information Via Email
Suppose corporate needs your bank's routing and account numbers to get you set up for direct deposits. Or the IT department needs your password to upgrade or modify your account. Read More


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Leak Police have gone crazy: Danger Room under fire for leaking imaginary weapon
Washington has its panties in a serious twist about U.S. national security leaks, so much so that the New York Times said "Washington is currently going a little nuts on the subject of leaks." In June, the feds began investigating who leaked classified Stuxnet cyberattack details to the NYT. Read More

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Prototype system goes after DNS-based botnets
Security researchers this week will detail a prototype system they say can better detect so-called Domain Name Generation- (DGA) based botnets such as Conficker and Kraken without the usual labor- and time-intensive reverse-engineering required to find and defeat such malware. Read More

 
 
 

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