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Hackers hop onto royal engagement search results

Malwarey Middleton meddling by miscreants Knaves, scoundrels and traitors to the crown took only minutes to leap onto yesterday’s news of the royal engagement in a bid to expose sentimentally patriotic surfers to malware.… Free Whitepaper – When legitimate sites threaten your network

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Video: Royal engagement search results poisoned, warn security firms

Some search results related to the engagement of Prince William and Kate Middleton lead to rogue websites that offer fake anti-virus scans, security firm…

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Replication-as-a-Service Widens On-demand Ecosphere

On-demand cloud backup for all devices

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From the Mobile Generation’s White Hat Hackers: The Eight Best Ways to Protect Smart Phones

Have you ever received repeated cell phone calls from an unknown number? Or opened a text message offering an update to a phone app you don’t even use? These are just a few of the situations that should raise security red flags, according to computer science and information technology students at the prestigious Information Systems and Internet Security Lab at the Polytechnic Institute of New …

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Business calendar: Oct. 9

Business calendar: Oct. 9

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New Orleans Saints fans’ Who Dat Dictionary (First Edition)

A black & gold glossary created from reader comments and e-mails.

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Larry Magid: Report: 95% of Email Is Spam: Threats Aimed at Facebook & Children’s Searches

The Facebook Like button allows developers to use Javacript, which can also be used by bad guys to trick users into “liking” a page and then automatically recommending it to all their Facebook friends.

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Naming And Shaming Sneaky Web Design Tricks Of Facebook, Yahoo And Others

When we know what to call tricky user design, we’re less likely to fall prey to them.

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MarkMonitor Report Reveals How Targeting Luxury Brands Online Results in Significant Traffic for Online Scammers

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–MarkMonitor®, the global leader in enterprise brand protection, today released a special edition of the Brandjacking Index®, focused on luxury brands. The report reveals how suspected counterfeiters attract at least 120 million annual visits to their ecommerce sites. This figure represents almost half the traffic generated by the legitimate dot com sites for the …

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Gucci and Chanel targeted in brand hijacking scams

Fake versions of luxury fashion brand web sites are able to attract almosthalf the amount of traffic generated by their legitimate .com equivalentsaccording to research from anti-phishing and brand monitoring firm MarkMonitor.

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Robert Siciliano: ATM Security Threats Increase

ATM skimming alone is responsible for $350,000 of fraud daily exceeding a billion dollars in losses annually.

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Hackers nab $9 million by cracking online check images

Check fraud is one of the oldest financial scams in the book. And thus, it is humbling when it takes on a millennial spin.

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Rules? In Cyberwar? No Rules!

The fiction that rules apply to war is one of those eternal scams that make war possible, millennia after millennia. History – Twentieth Century – Wars and Conflicts – Games – Michael Hayden

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The dark side of paid search: scams, fraud and trademark abuse

Trademark infringement. Counterfeit merchandise. Domain squatting. Affiliate abuse. The old bait-and-switch. There are myriad ways of commiting fraud, but overall, some 600 million paid search clicks are stolen in the US every month.

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Harding on Africa

How should media deal with rumours of violence?

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Scareware victims seldom fight back

Too embarrassed or too ignorant? Victims of rogue anti-virus scams rarely attempt to claw back fraudulent credit card payments for worthless software packages, according to new research.

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Investment scammer chased out of another state ends up in Naples (Naples Daily News)

NAPLES —A business networking Web site lists Peter J. Pintarics as an independent investment management professional in Naples’ posh Pelican Bay development, while another calls the 61-year-old an economist with a Ph.D. and a Naples trustee.Yet another says “Dr. Pintarics” owns a Naples investment company that makes up to $1 million yearly.But none of Pintarics’ business networking Web sites …

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Investment scammer chased out of another state ends up in Naples (Bonita Banner)

business networking Web site lists Peter J. Pintarics as an independent investment management professional in Naples’ posh Pelican Bay development, while another calls the 61-year-old an economist with a Ph.D. and a Naples trustee. Yet another says “Dr. Pintarics” owns a Naples investment company that makes up to $1 million yearly. But none of Pintarics’ business networking Web sites tell …

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National news briefs (Deseret News)

NEW YORK (AP) — A jewelry store worker was shot to death in a brazen midday robbery Wednesday in a shop on posh Madison Avenue, police said.

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Web searches for iPad leading to malicous sites (CNET)

Security companies are warning people to be careful about scams involving e-mail or Web search for the Apple iPad or any other popular topic.

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Massachusetts Malware: Election Breeds Scams (InternetNews.com)

SEO tricksters and scareware authors seek to capitalize on the Brown-Coakley Senate results.

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Ice Thaws, Potholes Emerge (WSAZ NewsChannel 3 West Virginia)

As sure as spring follows winter, potholes follow thawing weather.

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Student Earns Perfect ACT Score (WSAZ NewsChannel 3 West Virginia)

It’s an honor only several hundred students across the country each year are able to achieve.

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Middle School Basketball Team Goes Pink (WSAZ NewsChannel 3 West Virginia)

13-year-old Emily Brown came up with the idea of changing in the regular uniforms and coming out on the courts dressed in all pink.

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Dodgy Haiti earthquake-themed domains point to scams (The Register)

Some people really are all heart With sad inevitability, fraudsters have rushed to register the Haiti earthquake-themed scam URLs in the wake of Tuesday’s natural disaster in the impoverished Caribbean country.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud

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