The Global Cyber War from MentalWardPublishing.com presented free by McGuinnessPublishing.com
Apple’s new iPad device looks like it will have some of the same security issues that affect the iPhone, such as weak encryption, a mobile security expert said on Thursday.
For one, if the iPad employs encryption the same way the iPhone does, sensitive personal data, including phone numbers and e-mail addresses, could be retrieved and [...] Read more »
Malicious code that mysteriously found its way onto an internal virtual print server took out nearly 800 computers used by the city of Norfolk, Virginia.
The code apparently was activated when workers shut down their computers, said Hap Cluff, IT director for the city of Norfolk. “It was triggered by the action of logging off,” he [...] Read more »
Security researchers have defeated vulnerability protections baked into the latest versions of Internet Explorer, demonstrating that it’s possible to poke holes in a safety net that’s widely relied on to keep end users safe from drive-by exploits.
By exploiting weaknesses in Adobe Systems’ Flash Player, researchers have devised two separate attacks that bypass mitigations Microsoft put [...] Read more »
IT security firm Sophos revealed Monday in its Security Threat 2010 that Facebook and Tweeter are not only for social networker, it is extensively used by cybercriminals. The survey also said that spamming on social networking sites went up to 70%. 57% of the users said that they have been spammed through social networking sites. [...] Read more »
China tried Friday to keep its censorship row with Google from damaging business confidence or ties with Washington, promising good conditions for foreign investors but giving no sign it might relax Internet controls.
U.S.-China trade and economic ties will not be affected by any Google Inc. decision to withdraw from China, said Commerce Ministry spokesman Yao [...] Read more »
Miranshah, Pakistan (AFP) Feb 10, 2010 - Pakistan’s Taliban faction lashed out at the government on Wednesday for referring to “credible reports” that their leader had died after a US missile attack.
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Islamabad, Pakistan (UPI) Feb 10, 2009 -
For more than 60 years the U.S.-Pakistani relationship has veered between despair and euphoria. In a very social sense, the two states could be characterized as an aging married couple occupying very distant parts of a large, deteriorating house whose plumbing, electrics and phone systems are in disrepair [...] Read more »
Microsoft is due to release a patch in its Feb Security update for 17 yr old computer bug which was associated with DOS Operating System. The software glitch was originally detected in Windows 3.1 and then it got carried over to the subsequent windows version. The bug was discovered by a Google Security Researcher and [...] Read more »
Two government websites, one county level and one state, were found to be infected with malware, according TrendMicro. Both infected sites lured victims to other malicious webpages with the promise of a nude celebrity.
Government Web Pages Baited With Sex Scandal
San Bernardino County’s probation page was found to have been injected with malicious frames directing users [...] Read more »
Kabul (AFP) June 15, 2009 - General Stanley McChrystal, who took command of US and NATO troops in Afghanistan Monday, is a former special operations commander whose elite forces are credited with battlefield successes in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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