E-Bay Hacked
admin @ September 27, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Very early this morning, a malicious fraudster posted on the Trust & Safety forum on eBay.com posing as approximately 1,200 eBay users. The fraudster made these posts in a way that was intended to appear as though he logged in with their accounts. The posts contained name and contact information, which appears to be valid, […]
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Hackers Crack Layered Tech Database
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Dedicated hosting company Layered Technologies is advising customers to reset account logins after an incident Monday night in which hackers were able to access a client support database. Layered Tech said it doesn’t believe that any customer credit card numbers were compromised, but is nonetheless advising customers to change the login credentials on all their […]
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E-Bay Hacked
admin @ September 26, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Very early this morning, a malicious fraudster posted on the Trust & Safety forum on eBay.com posing as approximately 1,200 eBay users. The fraudster made these posts in a way that was intended to appear as though he logged in with their accounts. The posts contained name and contact information, which appears to be valid, […]
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Salary survey: IT pay falls short
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Typical raises beat national rate of inflation, bringing average base pay to $86,700. Yet network professionals aren’t happy with their salary packages, our annual survey finds.
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Find Out If Your Computer Is Secretly Connecting to the Web
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* Type cmd in your Windows Run box. * Type “netstat -b 5 > activity.txt” and press enter. * After say 2 minutes, press Ctrl+C. * Type “activity.txt” on the command line to open the log file […]
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Find Out If Your Computer Is Secretly Connecting to the Web
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* Type cmd in your Windows Run box. * Type “netstat -b 5 > activity.txt” and press enter. * After say 2 minutes, press Ctrl+C. * Type “activity.txt” on the command line to open the log file […]
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A new way to pay in the UK
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Contactless cards such as the OnePulse recently launched by Barclays can be used to “wave and pay” for low cost items.
A new way to pay in the UK | Video | Reuters.com
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Fight the U.S., al Qaeda’s Zawahri tells Muslims in video
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Fight the U.S., al Qaeda’s Zawahri tells Muslims in video
Al Qaeda’s second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri called on Muslims to fight the United States and its allies around the world and praised the operations of Islamist militants in a new video released on Thursday.
Separately, an Islamist Web site said it would carry a new video from al […]
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Microsoft Offers $59.95 Office Ultimate 2007 to Students
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Microsoft gets generous with Office Ultimate 2007
When it comes to productivity suites, Microsoft’s long-running Office almost always gets top billing. Sure, there are alternatives like OpenOffice and StarOffice available to consumers, but Office sets the standard.
The latest version of the software suite, Office 2007, […]
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Canadian police detain Nigerian in alleged 419 scam
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Canadian police detain Nigerian in alleged 419 scam
A Nigerian national who had been living in Canada was taken into custody by Winnipeg police in connection with a West African email scam alleged to have bilked an 84-year old man of $30,000.
Toluwalade Alonge Owolabi, 36, of Toronto, was charged with fraud in excess […]
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Quechup is rotten: don’t accept invites
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Quechup is rotten: don’t accept invites
While you were Burning / vacationing / spacing out offline this Labor Day weekend, many folks online were hit with invitations from a social networking service called Quechup that violates your address book, and abuses user trust by spamming all your contacts.
Quechup is rotten: don’t accept invites - Boing Boing
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Mystery SNAFU exposes email logins for 100 foreign embassies (and counting)
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Mystery SNAFU exposes email logins for 100 foreign embassies (and counting)
Underscoring a major susceptibility threatening thousands of high-profile computer users across the world, a Swedish security consultant has published login credentials belonging to some 100 embassies.
The list contains the login credentials for official email addresses belonging to some 100 foreign embassies from countries including Russia, […]
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Winfrey turns it on for Obama
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Winfrey turns it on for Obama
Oprah Winfrey was rolling out the red carpet for Barack Obama and the high-wattage stars invited to a gala “celebration” expected to raise $US3 million ($3.6 million) for the Democratic presidential candidate.
The most powerful woman in show business was celebrating her favourite candidate at her palatial estate in this coastal […]
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Only for the strong of heart!
admin @ September 9, 2007 # No Comment Yet
You may have watched shows like SciFi’s Ghost Hunter, but you’ve never seen anything like this. Everything you’ve seen up to now is either faked, misinterpreted or worse. But this, obviously, is real. You just can’t fake something this terrifying! People laughed at John’s famous Ghost Car video claiming it was fake. But this […]
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