If you visit Computer Warehouse’s Brentford West London store then you can treat yourself to a “rare chance to try the ‘magical device’ for yourself”. The entrepreneurial team at the authorised Apple reseller have nabbed themselves a hay-zeus handset and are prepared to let you run your grubby mitts all over it.
A quick call to the store confirms that although the phone functionality doesn’t work (for obvious r… read more »
July 27th, 2007 in
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The Greeting Card Industry and the FBI have warned consumers about an e-card scam as many email messages are making their rounds. The modus operandi of the cyber crooks masquerading as the players from the greeting card industry is sending a phishing mail with subject as a “friend” or “classmate” and taking users to their fraudulent website when clicking a link in the email.
Generally such e-mails originate from unnamed i… read more »
July 27th, 2007 in
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Your Web mail account is a treasure trove of private and potentially valuable information–and thieves know it. In an online interview, one phisher claimed to make thousands of dollars every day by breaking into people’s E-mail accounts and searching for messages that contain financial details.
Normally you can’t tell whether you’ve been hacked in this way. Even if you cannily leave a juicy-sounding e-mail unread, a thief o… read more »
July 27th, 2007 in
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A flaw has been patched in Mozilla Firefox that could have allowed users’ computers to be compromised by visiting websites infected with malware. The flaw lay in the way Firefox version 2.0.0.5 handled uniform resource identifiers (URIs), protocols that allow browsers to access software. Firefox failed to properly handle some URIs, a flaw in the web browser that could have allowed remote malware execution.
Bugzilla@Mozilla posted the bug as… read more »
If you’ve had enough spam (unsolicited electronic commercial marketing messages sent in bulk using services such as email messaging as described in New Zealand’s anti-spam laws) you’re not alone. This is a big subject, so we’ll give you a few ideas to minimise spam in your life. Spam costs us all big time.
It’s annoying and time consuming and it increases the chance that we’ll miss or delete a legitimate email… read more »
July 25th, 2007 in
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Researchers at Independent Security Evaluators said their sample iPhone exploit could be replaced with malicious code that could remotely force the iPhone to do just about anything. For example, the iPhone exploit could be made to send the iPhone’s e-mail passwords to the attacker or even record and relay audio on the iPhone.
A group of U.S. security Relevant Products/Services researchers claims to have discovered an iPhone flaw that can op… read more »
July 25th, 2007 in
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A public exploit code for a severe vulnerability affecting the Internet Explorer toolbar for business networking site LinkedIn, has been posted by a pair of security researchers. The client-side ActiveX flaw, which garnered Secunia’s highest severity rating of “extremely critical,” can permit an attacker to remotely execute arbitrary code, Jared DeMott, one of the vulnerability’s discoverers, told SCMagazine.com today.
Users are e… read more »
July 25th, 2007 in
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Spammers are using the popular file format - Microsoft Excel - to dupe users, a messaging security firm reported has discovered. Israel-based Commtouch said on Monday it is tracking a new trick in which spammers send messages with Excel attachments that contain the latest pump-and-dump stock scams.
“Excel is a natural progression after the recent spate of PDF spam, which itself is a natural development from basic image spam,” said Ami… read more »
Stricter spam-filtering regulations were put into place Friday to prevent some new types of spam from getting into GatorLink e-mail inboxes, said John Bevis, an assistant director at UF Computing and Networking Services. For students flooded with spam in the past few weeks, this may come as a welcome relief. Spam and e-mail scams have become such a problem that the FBI put out a press release last week warning the public about certain types of fr… read more »
July 24th, 2007 in
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Hackers could take control of an iPhone if its owner visits a doctored Web site or Internet hotspot, security researchers reported Monday. The vulnerability of the vaunted device, Apple Inc.’s first cell phone, is only theoretical for now. There are no reports of criminals actually taking advantage of the security glitch to remotely access an iPhone.
But if it were exploited, hijacked iPhones could be very useful to the same gangs that take… read more »
July 24th, 2007 in
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