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Microsoft has aloof appear aegis advising 2501696 acknowledging a fresh aught day blemish in all accepted versions of Windows (except Server Core). The blemish appears to acquiesce maliciously crafted web pages to assassinate cipher in any "zone" behindhand of which area is specified. Any applications that use Microsoft's HTML renderer can be attacked including Internet Explorer, but applications that consistently accessible web agreeable in the "Restricted zone" are not afflicted including Outlook, Outlook Express, and Windows Mail. There is affidavit of abstraction cipher in the agrarian and it seems to be alone a amount of time afore we see abyss aggravating to accomplishment this flaw. For individuals, or bodies who alone administer a baby cardinal of computers, Microsoft has provided a Fix it apparatus that allows to to administer their recommended settings after accepting to use GPOs or accepting to manually adapt anthology keys. The SANS Internet St...

If there is any agnosticism as to how deeply internet communications accept been belted in Egypt, We has produced some absorbing statistics. In the action of allegory spam, one of our Vancouver advisers noticed that spam basic from Egypt had about vanished. While there accept been letters that Egypt had cut off internet casework completely, there were adverse letters suggesting that one ISP that accounts for about 8% of Egyptian users was still online to some degree. According to our statistics, the bulk of spam accustomed from Egypt in the aftermost two canicule has alone by 85%. While I'm not advocating this as a adjustment to stop the spam problem, it seems to affirm media letters of the admeasurement to which internet admission is currently accessible (or unavailable, as it were) to the Egyptian people. While you may accept a lower adventitious of accepting an email proclaiming you've won the Cairo lottery, this won't accept any cogent appulse on the aggregate of s...

Facebook's security team have reason to celebrate as they have claimed another scalp in the ongoing fight against spammers on the social network. A post on Facebook's Security page announced that this week a federal court has awarded the firm a whopping $360,500,000 in statutory damages and issued a permanent injunction against spammer Philip Porembski. US district court judge Jeremy Fogel made the judgement against Porembski, who ran a firm called PP Web Services. Porembski was alleged to have obtained the login details of at least 116,000 Facebook users, and sent more than 7.2 million spam messages to victims' online friends. Some of the spam messages directed users to phishing websites that stole usernames and passwords, while others made money for Porembski every time someone clicked on the links. A computer discovered by the Sacramento County Sherrif's Department, which was thought to belong to Philip Porembski, was found to contain more than 160,000 Face...

RAJKOT: A day after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberd's Facebook profile was hacked, someone hacked the Facebook profile of an IPS officer in Saurashtra. The unknown hacker uploaded embarrassing photos. The officer's profile picture was replaced with an obscene morphed photo. The miscreant has also changed the officer's basic information; political views, religious views, philosophy etc on his Facebook profile. The hacker also uploaded more than 24 photos of eunuchs to the profile. As soon as he came to know about it, the officer changed his hacked profiles and intimated his Facebook friends.

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