YapBrowser, a replacement web browser once promoted by controversial spyware company Zango, has made a sudden return, GFI Software security researcher Chris Boyd has reported. Zango (formerly 180 Solutions) disappeared in 2009 after the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) landed it with a $3 million fine but one now one…
Android virus receiving orders from encrypted blog
Researchers from Trend Micro have spotted a piece of malicious software for Android that receives instructions from an encrypted blog, a new method of communication for mobile malware, according to the company. The malware, which can steal information from an Android phone and send it to a remote server, purports…
ProtectMyID: Have your name and #phonenumber removed from the phone book and reverse directories. #101tips #idtheft
ProtectMyID: Have your name and #phonenumber removed from the phone book and reverse directories. #101tips #idtheft View full post on Twitter / ProtectMyID View full post on National Cyber Security Gergory Evans
Live and direct from… anywhere
Author: Tim Dees For the consumer-at-large, streaming video to a portable device is an easy sell. When it’s not only possible but easy to watch TV or a movie from anywhere, to pause it as desired, and to later pick up exactly where you left off, everyone wants it. For…
Nobody from the Help Desk needs your password
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Australian Telecom Cut Infected PC Off From Internet (September 30, 2011)
An Australia telecommunications company cut off a customer’s Internet service after sending her repeated warnings that her computer was infected with malware and was being used to launch attacks as part of a botnet……. View full post on SANS NewsBites View full post on National Cyber Security Gergory Evans
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Hacker group Anonymous threatens to “erase” NYSE from Internet
Washington, Oct 5 (ANI): Notorious hacker group Anonymous has threatened to hack into the computer system of the New York Stock Exchange. According to an FBI investigation, members of the hacker group have “declared war on the New York Stock Exchange” on Monday by threatening to “erase” it from the…
ProtectMyID: #101tips #Truesday: Under federal law, you are entitled to one free credit report a year from each of the 3 major credit bureaus. T or F?
ProtectMyID: #101tips #Truesday: Under federal law, you are entitled to one free credit report a year from each of the 3 major credit bureaus. T or F? View full post on Twitter / ProtectMyID View full post on National Cyber Security Gergory Evans
From one Hacker to another
gjackson@lakecityreporter.com It might be a sign of the times — The Hacker Company is going international. Lake City residents might think that means local businessman Roger Hacker is expanding the sign business he has owned and operated in town under different names since 1978. That’s not the case. Hacker has…