Job-search website: Monster.com has reportedly been breached, for the second time, in less than 18 months. Not only was the main database’s security compromised, but Monster’s parent company, USAJobs.gov, was hacked into as well.
Website attacks are becoming so common, security experts say, that Monster Worldwide Inc. won’t necessarily frighten existing and potential customers away, when [...]
03.11.10 | Computer News | admin
It is exciting to know that according to latest news insiders, Google Chrome will be releasing its own unique and specialized netbook.This is going to be Google Chrome’s OS Net book which will actually contain a certain host of built in security technologies which have been designed in order to safeguard users from various malicious [...]
03.10.10 | Computer News | admin
According to Symantec, spam now officially accounts for almost ninety per cent of email worldwide. Two Botnets have caused this spam escalation. These botnets go by the names of Grum and Rustock. Grum started creating problems in February which increases the number of spam that was generated by fifty one percent. Rustock also started creating [...]
03.9.10 | Computer News | admin
It has recently been discovered that email scams are on the increase again. The general public needs to be aware of the risks involved and need to know what to do in order to not become a victim. There are many different types of email scams going around the internet but the most common are [...]
03.9.10 | Computer News | admin
When one person sues Facebook it is trouble but when two people sue Facebook it is double trouble. It has been claimed that two twins are now millionaires after suing the founder of Facebook for stealing their ideas. It is allegedly been claimed that these two twins, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss are now sixty five [...]
03.5.10 | Computer News | admin
Cyber crime is being propagated by the fact that cybercriminals are leveraging new technologies, as well as reinventing social engineering forms, so as to coerce and entrap consumers.
Due to this very fact, the last six months has seen an increase in Web threats, and a steady decrease in Adware and Spyware, as a combating force, [...]
03.4.10 | Computer News | admin
A new kind of telephone fraud has recently emerged and is taking on a rapidly increasing role in many a teen hacker’s daily plots. It is called: Swatting. What Swatting entails is exploiting a weakness in the way the 911 system handles calls from Internet-based phone services.
03.4.10 | Computer News | admin
It has recently been discovered that a new and powerful botnet has been the cause of computer infections all over the world. This Kneber botnet is currently reaching different computer systems all around the globe. This botnet is actually a new type of malware which has never been seen before by computer scientists. The damage [...]
03.2.10 | Computer News | admin
It has recently been discovered as well as reported that the 2010 Fife World Cup which is going to be taking place in South Africa this year is going to increase the number of cybercrimes that are taking place on our online world.
Popular company Symantec has actually brought out a computer security initiative which has [...]
03.2.10 | Computer News | admin
Do you think you would be able to cope with internet activities without the use of any of Google’s’ services? Will you be able to sustain your online persona, efficient and all, sans the help of your trusty web source: Google?
In a world where nothing is guaranteed – not even the prevalence and ongoing nature [...]
03.1.10 | Computer News | admin