Internet
Google Chrome takes four years
Chrome, the navigation software made in Google, takes four years. The group of Mountain View celebrated the anniversary with a post on the official blog, in which are passed in review the results achieved so far. At the time of the announcement, dated September 1, 2008, the landscape was substantially different Web: Internet access took [...]
The security hole affects Yahoo! Gmail, Hotmail and other
The Internet hacking and filtering of 450,000 accounts from Yahoo!, taking advantage of a security breach, affecting scores of other services like Gmail, Hotmail, MSN, AOL, Comcast, SBC Global, Verizon, BellSouth and Live.com. These accounts have been found by security firm Rapid7 in one of the leaked files, of course, in plain text and not [...]
Security weaknesses in LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Star Legends League of June
The month of June is usually the prelude to the holiday for most of us, but as we have already warned on several occasions, cybercrime does not rest, and spread of threats and attacks continue to occur even in the summer months. LinkedIn is leading the attacks on major companies and data leaks Cyberweapons espionage [...]
LinkedIn will strengthen its security
After a difficult week for the LinkedIn social network because of the security breach that revealed the more than 6.4 million user passwords, the company responsible for taking action on the matter, reports Reuters. After solving the theft of passwords at a stroke, resetting or disabling all exposed, while investigating the incident in cooperation with [...]
Chrome extensions stole Facebook accounts
Cybercriminals are distributing new malware that can steal the Facebook accounts of users and to get an economic return from it. The malware is distributed through the official store of Chrome and offers a tool to remove viruses from Facebook profile. Victims who fall for the scam will present their accounts; cybercriminals can use to [...]
Anonymous plans “down” the Internet with massive attack on Saturday
The digital activism group Anonymous confirmed that on Saturday March 31 will try to “pull down” the Internet, promising that on that day no one can access any Internet site. As published in Pastebin, the goal is to attack 13 servers DNS “roots”, and if successful, would block access to all types of domains, almost [...]
Gmail explains spam
Gmail offers a new service via caption that explains why some messages are placed in the spam folder. Gmail’s spam filter is one of the features most appreciated by users of the Google email service. To make more transparent the selection of anti-spam, Gmail has added over each spam message in the list contains a [...]
Emails from 8,000 students were exposed by a lending agency
A clerical error made by Student Finance England exposed the email addresses of about 8,000 students should complete the scholarship application forms. Student Finance England, a subsidiary of Student Loans Company, the agency responsible for providing scholarships, has sent notices to students, along with an attachment that contains the email addresses of all trainees. According [...]
Wi-Fi: it works for roaming
The GSMA and Wireless Broadband Alliance are trying to develop a common protocol for a solution for Wi-Fi roaming. There will come a day when the Wi-Fi can be used, as happens with traditional mobile phone, without seeing your device connected to a single hotspot. There will come a day when we can move from [...]
Iran prepares to host email on local servers
The head of the Department of Defense Cyber Iran, Rahimi said recently that his country has developed the infrastructure to host the e-mail servers for internal use in the country. The move seems a step in the process initiated by the Iranian authorities to create a national network of internet disconnected from the world to [...]
