The Internet Storm Center is reporting a 10-fold spike in RDP traffic. The increase in RDP scans is suspected to be caused by a new work called Morto. The worms spreads by simple port scanning and brute force …
Your mailbox is over quota. At least, that is what the sender wants you to believe. The email typically contains a dire warning that your email will be cutoff unless you follow the link and re-verify your account.
Unfortunately, the …
The hacker group Anonymous is targeting the State of Tennessee for a recently passed cyberbullying law. The new law makes it a misdemeanor to post images that may frighten, intimidate or cause emotional distress. Anonymous has released a YouTube …
JailbreakMe 3.0 has been released. This latest release works with all Apple devices including the iPad2. In order to jailbreak their device, a user simply points the browser on their device at jailbreakme.com. The website exploits a flaw in …
Billing the new functionality as an easier way to tag photos, Facebook has rolled out new facial recognition support on their website. The new function groups similar faces from uploaded photos and suggests names as tags for the faces …
Google has released version 12 of Chrome. The latest stable release includes their Safe Browsing technology, which will warn users about unsafe websites and downloads. The browser still supports sandboxing to prevent individual tabs from affecting each other. The …
Ars Technica has a writeup on the advertising industry’s opposition to California Senate Bill 761. SB761 is California’s Do Not Track bill which requires advertisers not to track web users if they opt out. The letter is signed by …
As WordPress grows in popularity, it becomes the target of hackers and spammers hoping to leverage the site for malicious purposes. We’ve compiled a short list ten popular plugins to help protect your valuable web real estate.