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Steve Jobs death exploited by Facebook scammers

06

Oct

2011

It’s impossible to express how sad many people in the technology world feel at the news of the death of Steve Jobs. Sickeningly, as with the deaths of other figures in the public eye, there are scammers waiting to take advantage of bad news. Here’s a scam we have seen on Facebook, claiming that free […]

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Hackers steal credit card details at Wisconsin and Tennessee Wilderness resorts

13

Sep

2011

Bad news if you have been on vacation at one of the Wilderness resorts in Tennessee and Wisconsin in the last couple of years – hackers may now have your credit card details. VacationLand Vendors Inc, a firm which provides arcade and vending machines to businesses, has revealed that a hacker broke into its credit […]

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GlobalSign gives itself clean bill of health after Iranian hacker’s braggadocio

12

Sep

2011

Following the widely-publicised disgrace of Dutch digital certificate issuer DigiNotar, a person calling himself ComodoHacker claimed that he’d breached four other Certificate Authorities (CAs), too. Only one of these CAs was named: GlobalSign, the world’s fifth-biggest issuer of digital certificates. In my opinion, GlobalSign would have been justified in ignoring this claim altogether. It comes […]

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