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Taking passwords to the grave
September 22, 2006
Family members are increasingly unable to access important data because their loved ones have not left passwords behind.
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Yahoo! Inc.
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Time Warner Inc.
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Google Inc.
Gmail cookie vulnerability exposes user's privacy
September 27, 2007
Program developed by "ethical hacking" group takes advantage of cross-site scripting vulnerability to steal contacts, forward e-mail.
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Thousands of Brits fall victim to data theft
October 10, 2006
U.K. police struggle to contact people whose passwords and credit card details have been stolen.
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Microsoft Corp.
Cisco warns customers of site breach
August 3, 2005
Company sends e-mails to site's users and advises people to change their passwords.
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E-mail worm graduates to IM
April 4, 2005
Chod.B worm is now spreading over MSN Messenger, after propagating over e-mail systems last week.
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Time Warner Inc.
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Yahoo! Inc.
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password
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Microsoft Corp.
This week in worms
January 28, 2005
New variant of mass-mailing PC virus known as Bagle is making the rounds. Also: MySQL bot takes advantage of administrators' poor password choices.
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Security expert: User education is pointless
October 12, 2006
Most office workers can't be made to care about phishing, rootkits or spyware, he says. Other specialists disagree.
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information technology
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At PayPal, fending off phishers--and Google
March 26, 2007
CTO Scott Thompson talks about ways to shoo e-mail scams and to keep tabs on the Checkout competition.
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eBay Inc.
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e-mail address
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e-mail
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Microsoft Internet Explorer 7
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Google Inc.
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Web browser
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password
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Microsoft Internet Explorer
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Yahoo Mail puts words in your mouth
July 17, 2002
Yahoo uses an automated filter to search e-mail and swap out a handful of words that pertain to Web code known as JavaScript.
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Richard Smith
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JavaScript
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Yahoo! Inc.
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Yahoo! Mail
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MSN Hotmail
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word
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MSN
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Web browser
Yahoo to plug security hole in dating site
December 20, 2005
Fix comes after security expert finds clues in online profiles that could let intruders reset passwords.
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Bennett Haselton
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Yahoo! Inc.
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password
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security
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account
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e-mail
Firefox marketing site hacked
July 15, 2005
Attack on SpreadFirefox.com, the online hub for Mozilla's Firefox marketing efforts, may have exposed user data.
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Mozilla Corp.
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password
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Phishers target Yahoo Messenger
March 24, 2005
Phony messages direct people to a site that asks people for their Yahoo usernames and passwords.
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e-mail filtering
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SurfControl plc
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Websense Inc.
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Yahoo! Inc.
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MSN Messenger
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IM
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Australia
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Police blotter: Wife e-surveilled in divorce case
March 1, 2007
Man captures keystrokes and screen grabs of wife's chats with suspected lover--and is allowed to use them in divorce case.
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AOL security breach exposes personal info
June 16, 2000
The online service confirms that hackers have illegally compromised an undisclosed number of its member accounts by targeting key company employees with an email virus.
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Richard Smith
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America Online Inc.
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Time Warner Inc.
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Phishing attacks take a new twist
May 5, 2005
Schemes involving malicious code that intercepts passwords and usernames are on the rise, Websense Security Labs reports.
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Pizza chain caught without fully baked security
November 8, 2005
Papa John's beefs up security for its Web-based e-mail system after internal e-mail and customer data are exposed.
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password protection
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credit card
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password
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security
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Phishers get personal
May 26, 2005
Spammers and online fraudsters are exploiting Web site features to learn more about their victims and better hone their attacks.
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Phishing twist relies on bogus blogs
April 12, 2005
Attackers are capitalizing not only on the popularity of blogs, but also on the free storage that some hosting sites offer.
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Websense Inc.
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blog
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phishing
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popularity
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IM
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e-mail
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link
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security
This week in security
January 22, 2005
ISP gets hijacked, with all DNS records moved to the U.K. Plus, both Microsoft and Apple come under fire for holes in Office and Mac OS X.
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Crypto flaw cracks Office open
January 20, 2005
Password-protected files at risk, researcher warns. Also: Baba offshoot makes false promises about erasing smut.
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