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The Mysterious Tango Toolbar
For a month or so now, support sites and Question / Answer services such as social.answers.microsoft and Yahoo Questions have been looking like this: Two common themes: nobody seems to know where they get it from, and nobody can uninstall …
Beware of World Cup scams, malware and other online threats
The 2010 World Cup is finally under way and millions of football fans around the world will be tuning in over the next three weeks to watch their favourite national team compete in one of the world’s most popular sporting …
"A virus is attacking my computer"
Today, as virtually everyone knows, Google put Pacman on the homepage. I got the following note from Mike Williams, one of our support managers, this afternoon: “We had a new kind of ‘virus’ attack today that people were calling in …
U.S. privacy bill: the battle lines form
The draft privacy legislation in the U.S. Congress that we blogged about yesterday has drawn comment from a lot of players – businesses and trade groups in the $24 billion online advertising industry as well as privacy groups. The draft …
Subdomains defaced on The Telegraph website
The Telegraph, one of the biggest newspapers in the UK, hasn’t had a good time of it lately where their website is concerned. Vulnerabilities were found back in March 09 involving database access, and it seems a hacking group has …
Hacking the Matrix
I could talk about how The Matrix was a pretty big deal for me back in the day, or how The Matrix Online is (to date) the only MMORPG I ever liked enough to pay a monthly subscription for, or …
Help The Homeless, Feed the Phishers?
Well, this is unfortunate. In the UK, we have something called “The Big Issue”, which is a magazine designed to help the homeless get back into society via a legitimate income. It sells around 300,000 copies a week and is …
Google-in-China saga: another hack, move to HK
There is a risk to computer security from governments. Regulatory changes, even if they are very positive measures, can impose huge demands on an enterprise (i.e. HIPPA, Sarbanes-Oxley, California’s law requiring notification of customers whose personal information is hacked on …
Why spamming is an easy business – and the problems it causes
Recently, whilst searching for a particular solution on the Internet, I encountered the following post in a forum: Surely, not the solution I was looking for. However, the post is strange and did catch my attention. Apart from the broken …
World of Warcraft authenticator users come under attack
You may be wondering why I have a photo of a bunch of pocket calculators up above (a photo that I took myself, copyright fans). Well, they’re actually authentication devices for various PC games, which are designed to give an …
