In an interesting testament to what users consume on the Internet, YouTube has just passed Yahoo! for the #3 spot of the “most visited” sites on Alexa. Numbers 1 and 2, as you might expect, belong to Google and Facebook respectively, but YouTube’s launch into the 3rd slot is an interesting change. The question...
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As many as five million Web sites hosted by Network Solutions have been serving up malware, probably for several months, a security expert said today. “This is one of the biggest infections for drive-by download attacks that I’ve seen,” said Wayne Huang, co-founder and CTO of Santa Clara, Calif.-based Armorize Technologies, a Web application...
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HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has warned taxpayers to remain cautious after revealing that it has shut down over 180 web sites following a surge in phishing emails over the past three months. The department urged people receiving a suspicious looking email to visit the HMRC web site to check whether it is a...
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The web sites of more than a whopping 200 Australian organisations were hijacked and vandalised in a spate of hacks last week. In the largest single attack, a hacker gained administrative access to the Direct Admin server management system used by a hosting provider, who Computerworld Australia will not name, and suspended 159 accounts...
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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbering is set to approve the .xxx top level domain for adult web sites – a decade after it was first proposed. The move is reckoned to make it easier to separate porn from mainstream web sites. At a public meeting in Brussels yesterday, ICANN general counsel...
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Tor Project have released a public beta of a new Firefox extension that lets people encrypt their communications with Facebook, Twitter and other sites. The HTTPS Everywhere Firefox extension was inspired by Google’s encrypted Web search option, the EFF said in announcing the tool last week. In addition...
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DENVER (Billboard) – The visceral experience of attending a concert can never be fully replicated online. But live music is making its way to the Internet with increasing frequency, bringing with it new opportunities for fans, artists and rights-holders alike. Online outlets have begun dabbling in hosting live video streams of music concerts. YouTube...
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When adults talk about personal privacy on sites like Facebook, someone is bound to contend that that young people are too self-absorbed, or too naive to care about securing personal information that’s stored in various places stored online. Well, according to a study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, that person is...
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One part of Microsoft Global Security’s activities is monitoring physical security at the company’s premises around the world. This is carried out from three Global Security Operations Centers (GSOCs), located at Redmond (USA), Reading (UK) and Hyderabad (India), each responsible for their geographical region The previous approach was decentralised, people-intensive, and involved more than...
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Update 2: Simple clean up solution: http://blog.sucuri.net/2010/05/simple-cleanup-solution-for-latest.html Update 1: Note that we are not blaming WordPress here. I am assuming that if the problem was on WordPress itself, the number of infected sites would be much much bigger. Maybe a plugin is vulnerable or someone stole lots of passwords. Also, all the hacked sites...
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