Archive for the ‘Security’ Category

Hacked Twitter accounts

Although we are not one of them, there have been a series of “Twitter” accounts that have been compromised through a scam whereby users were lead to enter their log in details at a fake Twitter site, thus handing account details straight to someone else.
These details were used to send spam through direct messaging. We [...]

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Internet Explorer Security – update

Microsoft have now released an “out of band” security update that addresses the vulnerability in Internet Explorer that was responsible for the attacks on Google China recently. The security issue lead to German and French authorities recommending alternative browsers, such as Firefox or Chrome.
Now, with this patch, users minimise the risk of exposing themselves to [...]

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Internet Explorer Security

It has been reported both by the BBC and The Register that a bug in IE, namely “Zero Day”, was part of the cause for the security issues at Google’s Chinese offices. Following these reports, the German authorities have suggested users to switch to a different browser as Microsoft are yet to release a fix, [...]

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Hotmail phishing attack update – not just Hotmail

Following on from the initial report that Hotmail accounts have been “phished” and posted online – it appears that 20,000 more e-mail addresses have also been posted, including GMail, Yahoo and AOL. There are some that are fake, or indeed expired, but there are still some that are valid and being used.
It may not be [...]

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Hotmail phishing attack

It has been reported that a list of Hotmail accounts had been acquired and published online on the 1st October. See the article on the BBC News website here.
The list contained 10,000 hotmail accounts beginning with A and B, and ending with hotmail.com, live.com and msn.com. The addresses have mainly come from Europe.
Iit seems that [...]

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