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News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
A common Web programming error could give hackers a way to take over Google Buzz accounts, a security expert said this week.
Robert McMillan | Feb 18, 2010
According to researchers at Kaspersky Lab, cybercriminals are trying to sell hacked Twitter user names and passwords on-line for hundreds of dollars.
Robert McMillan | Feb 1, 2010
Google’s decision Tuesday to risk walking away from the world's largest Internet market may have come as a shock, but security experts see it as the most public admission of a top IT problem for U.S. companies: ongoing corporate espionage originating from China.
Robert McMillan | Jan 14, 2010
Adobe is investigating new reports that hackers are attacking a previously unknown bug in the latest version of the company’s Reader and Acrobat software.
Robert McMillan | Dec 17, 2009
A flaw in the protocol used to secure communications over the Internet could have been used to hack Twitter accounts, according to an IBM security researcher.
Robert McMillan | Nov 18, 2009
Cyber-crime just doesn’t pay like it used to. Security researchers say the cost of criminal services such as distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks has dropped in recent months. The reason? Market economics. “The barriers to entry in that marketplace are so low you have people basically flooding the market,” said Jose Nazario, a security researcher with Arbor Networks. “The way you differentiate yourself is on price.”
Robert McMillan | Oct 16, 2009
1234567 may not be a very secure password, but it’s popular on Hotmail. That’s according to Bogdan Calin, a security researcher who got hold of 10,000 stolen Windows Live Hotmail usernames and passwords that were posted to the Web site PasteBin late last week.
Robert McMillan | Oct 12, 2009
A long-time critic of the video game industry has sued Facebook for $US40 million ($A50m), saying that the social networking site harmed him by not removing angry postings made by Facebook gamers.
Robert McMillan | Oct 2, 2009
Look for a way to fix your credit or transfer money on Microsoft’s Bing these days and you’ll get some friendly advice from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
Robert McMillan | Sep 30, 2009
Facebook has been sued by a US software company that claims the social-networking site is violating a two-year-old patent.
Robert McMillan | Sep 23, 2009
With many who bank online now wary of phishing attacks, criminals are adding fake live-chat support windows to their Web sites to make them seem more real.
Robert McMillan | Sep 18, 2009
Hoping to deal with a growing problem, Twitter has quietly introduced a feature to prevent users from posting links to malicious Web sites. But security experts say that it can be easily circumvented.
Robert McMillan | Aug 5, 2009
As I type these words, I am waiting for Apple's Developer Connection web site to ease up sufficiently for me to download the long-awaited Software Developer Kit for the iPhone (and iPod touch, just by the by). In a way, I hate developer-oriented announcements — "here's a really cool thing we're working on, and it's available now, and hoi polloi can have it in about six months". Actually, it's the six months I hate.
