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Bogus LinkedIn profiles serving malware
A currently active malware campaign is taking advantage of bogus LinkedIn profiles impersonating celebrities in an attempt to trick users into clicking on links serving bogus media players. LinkedIn is among the latest social networking services considered as a valuable asset in the arsenal of the blackhat SEO knowledgeable cybecriminal,...
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Thousands of Israeli web sites under attack
In the wake of the escalating conflict between Israel and Hamas, it didn't take long before pro-Hamas supporters organized themselves and started to defacing thousands of pro-Israeli web sites in order to use them as vehicles for propaganda -- Israel is meanwhile hijacking TV signals. For the...
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Apple expands DRM-free music selection
At Macworld 2009 in San Francisco, Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of marketing, announces a new music price plan and an expanded selection of digital rights management-free songs in its iTunes Store. Users will be able to strip their existing DRM-wrapped music of the controversial copy protection software, but...
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Apple will finally drop DRM
Apple trades DRM for variable pricing. by Richard Koman
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Photos: Jobs fill-in touts media, MacBook updates
In the first Steve Jobs-less Macworld keynote in some time, Phil Schiller unveiled updates to many Apple products, including a 17-inch MacBook Pro and DRM-free songs in iTunes. by CNET News.com
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iTunes finally goes DRM-free ... done anyone really care?
News from the Macworld Expo - iTunes is in the final stages of shedding DRM, offering some eight million of its 10 million songs in Apple's iTunes Plus DRM-free format. But does anyone care? Is there anyone who is still concerned about DRM buying anything from the iTunes store? by...
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The inevitable rise (and fall?) of 'twishing'
The phishing or "twishing" situation happening with Twitter is merely the tip of the iceberg. Rather than dig into the situation myself -- including the OAuth debate -- I've turned it over to one of my more technical-brained friends. Damon Cortesi is a security consultant who has also authored a...
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Apple expands DRM-free music selection [video]
At Macworld 2009 in San Francisco, Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of marketing, announces a new music price plan and an expanded selection of digital rights management-free songs in its iTunes Store. Users will be able to strip their...
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Apple iTunes goes all DRM free, with three price tiers
Apple announced today that effective immediately 8 million songs on iTunes would be DRM free, and that by the end of the quarter all 10 million songs on the popular music site would be DRM free. DRM stands for Digital Rights Management, otherwise known as copy protection. DRM-free music can...
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How genetic testing will show us the money in 2009
Rather than targeting the consumer market deCODE is looking at corporations who want to protect key employees, and insurers who want to cut specific risks down the road. Who pays matters. by Dana Blankenhorn
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News to know: Macworld; Windows 7; Snow Leopard; Web 2.0 security; IT strategy
Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ed Bott: Five things Steve Ballmer won't tell you about Windows 7 Mary Jo Foley: Macs vs. PCs: Is it still a 'tax' if users happily pay...
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Naivete: Web 2.0's biggest security threat
Naivete: Web 2.0's biggest security threatNaivete - Innocence is no excuseThe underbelly of relationship marketing is the existence of those who use it for nefarious purposes, whether for profit, for power, or just for malicious mischief. This weekend's Twitter Phishing attack was probably overdue and hopefully not much damage was...
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Naivete: Web 2.0's biggest security threat
Last year, when I first started poking around in social media from my security high horse, people asked me what it was like to live in two totally different worlds. Keep in mind I'm no technology thought leader, hacker or researcher -- but I've been working in security for the...
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Twitter authority frenzy led to Twitter phishing meltdown
Folks like to know where they stand, and in recent weeks people on Twitter have been, well, all a-twitter about the idea of Twitter Authority. They want to know who is most influentialâa repeat of the phenomenon that swept the blogosphere a while back. It's a human thing, but it...
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FOXNews apparent victim of Twitter phishing attack
By now everyone knows about the phishing scam that started attacking Twitter over the weekend. And most everyone else knows that a majority of those accounts have been harvested and are using DMs to push people to potential drive-by-malware sites. It appears that the attackers, however, had...
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News to know: Windows 7; Twitter phishing; Apple; Floppies
Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Perlow: The bell tolls for your magnetic media Robin Harris: Long-term personal data storage Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: First reactions to Windows 7 ...
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McAfee VirusScan Definition 5485 (Windows)
McAfee Virus Scan Updates - latest virus definition update for users of McAfee's antivirus product.
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Symantec Norton AntiVirus Virus Definition 1/4/09 (Windows)
Norton AntiVirus Definition - as new threats emerge, Symantec immediately builds new protection updates and makes them available for download on a subscription basis.
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Kaspersky Anti-Virus Definitions 05 January 2009 (Windows)
The latest virus definitions for Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal and Lite. Use this if you already have AVP installed.
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NOD32 ThreatSense Update 3735 (20090104) (Windows)
Threat sense update for NOD32 Antivirus .ESET NOD32 Antivirus offers superior, comprehensive protection, the fastest scanning throughput, and the least performance impact of any solution.
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