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How to check if your details have been compromised

02
Nov
2011

Ever wonder where the term “Pwned” came from? Rumour has it that is started with the game World of Warcraft (WoW), where a map designer, intending to write “the player has been owned”, mistyped it as “the player has been pwned”. In any case, it is widely used today to mean you have been screwed […]

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SpyEye vs. Tracker

17
Oct
2011

It has become clear that the creator of the banking Trojan SpyEye have added plugin support to their code. In this new design, these plugins can be used by third parties to add extra functions to the core bot. The plugins are DLLs stored in the bot’s configuration file. Among the core plugins created for […]

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LinkedIn responds quickly to complaints about ‘social ads’

12
Aug
2011

Yesterday, I wrote about LinkedIn’s recent Privacy Policy changes, by means of which the company snuck in the right to use your name and photo in adverts placed by third parties. You weren’t offered the choice to enable this new feature at will, because it was turned on by default for everyone. And LinkedIn didn’t […]

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