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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 3 hours ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: comcast sets monthly bandwidth limit customers comments Discuss  
Comcast, the largest provider of cable-based broadband service in the U.S., will limit residential customers to 250GB of bandwidth a month beginning Oct. 1, the company announced late Thursday. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 7 hours ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: cloned atm cards fool brit selfservice checkouts comments Discuss  
Carder crooks say they canCybercrooks are targeting self-service checkout systems in UK supermarkets to cash-out compromised US credit and debit card accounts.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 9 hours ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn secunia weekly summary issue comments Discuss  
From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:07:57 -0500 (CDT)======================================================================== The Secunia Weekly Advisory Summary 2008-08-21 - 2008-08-28 This week: 77 advisories ========================================================================Table of Contents:1................................................ read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 9 hours ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn british hacker gary mckinnon final appeal home secretary extradition comments Discuss  
From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:07:41 -0500 (CDT)http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article4628575.eceBy David BrownThe TimesAugust 29, 2008A UFO enthusiast who hacked into top-secret US military computers appealed to the Home Secretary yesterday to stop his extradition after losing a legal appeal.Gary McKinnon is due to be extradited to the United States within two weeks and could face a sentence of up to 80 years in a maximum-security prison if found read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 9 hours ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: common usernames spam comments Discuss  
Time to evolve, aardvarksThe use by spammers of dictionary attacks means those whose email address begins with a less common first character are liable to get less spam.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 9 hours ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: crosssite hacks art defence comments Discuss  
The new browser warsHackers can force your browser to send requests to any site they want. It's not even hard - all they have to do is get you to view an email or a web page.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 11 hours ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: fog attack clouds western hack comments Discuss  
Are you local? Really?Analysis Conflicting claims by Best Western and Glasgow's Sunday Herald over the scope of a recent security breach have been put under the microscope by security watchers. The paper claims that eight million records were potentially exposed, while the hotel insists only ten records were accessed.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 19 hours ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: apple promises september fix iphone security flaw comments Discuss  
A recently discovered security flaw that would allow access to a locked iPhone will be fixed next month, Apple said on Thursday. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 21 hours ago
Via: http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com | Tags: accused british hacker gary mckinnon loses appeal block extradition comments Discuss  
A British man accused of hacking into U.S. military computers lost a major court battle today and could be extradited to the United States within weeks. Gary McKinnon is alleged to have illegally accessed computers belonging to the Pentagon, NASA and the U.S. Army and Navy in 2001 and 2002. McKinnon lost his appeal today to the European Court of Human Rights to block his extradition. - A British man accused by the United States of quot;the biggest military hack of all time quot; lost an appeal on Thurs read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 21 hours ago
Via: http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com | Tags: iphone security flaw exposes private data comments Discuss  
A security flaw in the Apple iPhone allows unauthorized users to gain easy access to private contacts and e-mails even when the device is locked, but the company said a fix is on the way. Popular technology blog Gizmodo and an online forum run by the Mac Rumors site showed that it took only three taps to gain access to locked iPhones, which run the latest 2.02 Apple iPhone software. A spokeswoman said in an e-mail that Apple was aware of the problem and was readying a software update to fix it. In the mean read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 21 hours ago
Via: http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com | Tags: internet explorer beta privacy features win user support comments Discuss  
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 includes a number of security and privacy features that allow it to keep pace with competing browsers such as Firefox and Safari. Many users of Internet Explorer seem to appreciate Microsoft's privacy protections, which are designed to protect users' browsing information. The most talked-about features are InPrivate Browsing and InPrivate Blocking. - Much has been made of the new security features in MicrosoftInternet Explorer 8 Beta 2. As users and testers bang on t read more »
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