Anti-Spyware and PC Security News

Apple Snow Leopard

Nash — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 03:41:56 +0000

Apple Engineers missed a key opportunity to implement an industry-standard technology in their latest operating system that would have made it more resistant to hacking attacks, three researchers have said. Known as ASLR, or address space layout randomization, the measure picks a different memory location to load system components each time the OS is started. While [...]

Twitter and Facebook under DDOS Attack

Nash — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 04:50:10 +0000

More than two days after experiencing a complete outage as a result of a distribute denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, Twitter and other social networking sites such as Facebook are still battling a surge in traffic related to the attack. Twitter has taken some steps to mitigate the spike in traffic and ensure that the site is [...]

Monitor Carefully Your Credit Card Transactions

Nash — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:11:17 +0000

Another good reason to monitor carefully one’s credit card transactions. Network Solutions has announced that customers’ credit card of its merchant servers were stolen. Obviously the reason for this theft is they will use it for purchase online or every way possible. It may not be now since the subject is still hot. In a letter [...]

Email Privacy in Social Networking

Nash — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 02:12:10 +0000

Be careful when joining social network, especially when a certain friend suddenly invites you to join one. Their email address could be inappropriately used and when you join, yours will be used too. The social networking site could grab all your contacts and spam them with “join” messages. Be sure to read the Terms and [...]

Twitter Hacked into

Nash — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 04:16:08 +0000

Breaking into someone’s e-mail can be child’s play for a determined hacker, as Twitter Inc. employees have learned the hard way — again. For the third time this year, the San Francisco-based company was the victim of a security breach stemming from a simple end-run around its defenses. In the latest case, a hacker guessed the [...]

Cyber Attacks on Korean websites

Nash — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:25:06 +0000

There are signs that the concerted cyber attacks targeting U.S. and Korean government and commercial Web sites this past week are beginning to wane. Yet, even if the assaults were to be completely blocked tomorrow, the attackers could still have one last, inglorious weapon in their arsenal: New evidence suggests that the malicious code responsible [...]