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RSS passwords in newsiPhones under attack from Rick Astley worm
News Security companies have warned owners of jailbroken iPhones to change root log-in passwords immediately. Some iPhones have come under attack from a worm that replaces the devices' default wallpaper with a picture of Rick... [09 Nov 2009]
Thousands of Hotmail account details posted online
News Hotmail account logins and passwords have been posted to a public forum following a phishing attack. Several thousand users are thought to be affected although the lists of Hotmail user credentials have since been... [06 Oct 2009]
Facebook to kill Beacon: Info-sharing programme crumbles under privacy concerns
News And offering Facebook users the chance to register and log in to external sites without separate usernames and passwords gives Facebook Connect's marketing a slant of user convenience - and security, as some web users... [21 Sep 2009]
Botnet finds a home on Twitter
News Downloader.Sninfs, also known as Infostealer.Bancos, is a Trojan that uses the guise of a Brazilian banking site to collects passwords and related personal information from infected computers. A Twitter account can be... [17 Aug 2009]
Taxman's scam warning: Fraudsters want your passwords
News HM Revenue and Customs is warning taxpayers who file their tax self-assessments online to be especially wary of fraudsters after finding passwords for the service are being hijacked. According to HMRC, a "small number"... [06 Aug 2009]
Opera Unites browser and server
News The content is shared via Opera Unite by people sending other people URLs, and the security for protecting access to the content relies entirely on passwords. Andy Buss, a senior analyst at Canalys, said security based... [17 Jun 2009]
'Best video' scam takes Twitterers to malware
News The TwitterCut site looks like a Twitter log-in page and prompts people to type in their user names and passwords. Twitter users were hit with another attack over the weekend featuring tweets reading "Best Video" and a... [02 Jun 2009]
Worms lure Facebook users to fake site two days running
News Facebook also goes in and resets the passwords of member accounts that had been used to distribute the spam, he said. Facebook stopped a phishing attack on Thursday, its second day in a row of dealing with a worm on the... [01 May 2009]
Conficker wakes up with payload for the infected
News The worm spreads via a hole in Windows that Microsoft patched in October, as well as through removable storage devices and network shares with weak passwords. The Conficker worm started to update itself on Wednesday via... [09 Apr 2009]
Identity crisis for £1.2bn e-Borders system?
News P is for Passwords From 2010 the e-Borders system will cross reference the personal details for almost all passengers travelling to and from Britain against a watchlist of suspects. In a report for the Institute for... [30 Mar 2009]
"Netbook security is not there yet"
News P is for Passwords Netbooks have made headlines since their 2007 launch but their cheap cost could also carry a steep price tag due to lax security that makes them easier prey for viruses and hackers. [04 Mar 2009]
Microsoft puts $250,000 bounty on worm-creator's head
News It also spreads via removable storage devices like USB drives, and network shares by guessing passwords and usernames, which is "causing it to spread like wild fire in the enterprise", Jose Nazario, manager of security... [16 Feb 2009]
Airlines fear delays from snooping tech
News P is for Passwords Fliers face possible disruption from plans to begin electronic tracking of every journey into the UK during one of the busiest holiday periods of the year, the UK airline industry has warned. [11 Feb 2009]
UK is Big Brother capital of the world say Lords
News P is for Passwords The UK is now watched by more about four million CCTV cameras and details of seven per cent of the population is held in the National DNA Database (NDNAD) - more than any other country, according to... [06 Feb 2009]
Monster users victims of data theft
News User information, including passwords, has been stolen from job site Monster, the company has announced. Monster's database of user account information - which includes user IDs, passwords, email... [27 Jan 2009]
