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New study highlights risk of fake popup warnings for Internet users

Technology / Internet

created Sep 22, 2008 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A new study by researchers at North Carolina State University shows that most Internet users are unable to distinguish genuine popup warnings messages from false ones – even after repeated mistakes. The fake ones were designed ...





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Electronic Arts stages fake protest of game at E3 (AP)

Electronic Arts stages fake protest of game at E3

Technology / Software

created Jun 05, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- Electronic Arts has been playing games with attendees of the nation's biggest video-game trade show.


Computer forensics links internet postcards to virus

Technology / Internet

created Jul 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Fake Internet postcards circulating through e-mail inboxes worldwide are carrying links to the virus known as Zeus Bot, said Gary Warner, director of computer forensics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Zeus ...


Email scam targets executives

Technology / Internet

created Apr 17, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Thousands of U.S. executives were targeted in a phishing scam with fake e-mail messages that appear to be official federal court subpoenas.


The number of text messages that a mobile user in S.Korea can send out a day has been restricted to 500, down from 1,000

S.Korea halves ceiling on text messages to fight spam

Technology / Telecom

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

South Korean authorities on Wednesday halved the daily limit on text messages sent out by mobile phones as part of a campaign against spam, officials said.


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Cyber-crooks targeting social-networking websites

Technology / Internet

created Mar 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Computer security specialists warn that Facebook users have been hit with a series of data-stealing attacks in the past week as cyber crooks increasingly stalk social-networking websites.


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Cyber crime lords using big business tactics: Cisco

Technology / Internet

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Cyber criminals are aping executives when it comes to sales, marketing and risk management in the world of online treachery, according to a report released by networking giant Cisco.


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Google ordered to pay 500,000 dlrs to F1 racer Barrichello

Technology / Business

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Internet giant Google has been ordered to pay 500,000 dollars in damages to Formula 1 racer Rubens Barrichello for hosting fake online profiles of him on its social network Orkut.


Court to review employer access to worker messages

Technology / Other

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- The Supreme Court said Monday it will decide how much privacy workers have when they send text messages from on their employers' accounts.


Bogus e-mails from FDIC link computer users to viruses, says computer forensics expert

Bogus e-mails from FDIC link computer users to viruses, says computer forensics expert

Technology / Internet

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Cyber criminals are using fake messages claiming to be from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to deliver a virus capable of stealing unsuspecting victims' bank passwords and other sensitive ...


Donate your text messages to science: Texto4Science project

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A Université de Montréal researcher has a special request for Canadian texters: "Everyone young and old, students and workers, artists and business people, no matter who you are, send me your text messages," ...



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