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Sep

2011

Compromised account: evil people somehow get access to your Gmail/Yahoo/Hotmail/Facebook account and use it to send messages/wall posts to people you know (who trust you). A friend of mine was in the Swiss Alps on holiday in August. At an idyllic resort in the middle of nowhere he was delighted to find a free Internet […]

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Google Web History Vulnerable to Firesheep Hack

11

Sep

2011

Two researchers have shown how a modded version of the Firesheep Wi-Fi sniffing tool can be used to access most of a victim’s Google Web History, a record of everything an individual has searched for. The core weakness discovered by the proof-of-concept attack devised by Vincent Toubiana and Vincent Verdot lies with what is called […]

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How to Make Your Google Accounts More Secure

31

Aug

2011

About a month ago I received an email from Blizzard Entertainment stating that a new World of Warcraft account had been started using my personal Gmail address. Someone with the user name of “Zhang” was hoping to do a little night elf adventuring using my data. I got on the phone with Blizzard right away, […]

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