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“Curious Who’s Stalking You?” – Yes, we’ve heard it before

21

Dec

2011

This social media “stalking” thing, to the best of my knowledge, all began on MySpace. We’ve seen them emerge on Twitter, too: our friends at Sophos wrote a so-called “app” that Twitter purportedly released to track a user’s stalker. Only this time, no such app is ever involved. click to enlarge We’ve seen the tweet […]

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Fake news of Hugo Chavez’s death leads to malware

13

Dec

2011

Internet users in Latin America were the intended victims of a malware campaign last week, when an email was spammed out claiming to contain breaking news of the death of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. The email claimed that government officials had confirmed the death of 57-year-old Chavez, after a struggle against cancer. The news of […]

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From “.com” to “.anything”

13

Dec

2011

You may already know about the recent launch of the .xxx domain that is designed for websites with adult content. That is just the tip of the iceberg. ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the organization that coordinates the Internet’s addressing system, has announced a major evolution in the naming possibilities for generic top-level domains […]

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