Archive for the ‘Internet News’ Category

Critical Internet Explorer Bug Recently Uncovered But Was Reported Years Ago

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

The latest bug within Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser is just now being addressed but was something reported back in 2007. Microsoft seems to be rushing to address a discovered bug within their Internet Explorer web browser that was discovered by security researchers back in 2007. Hackers are using this ...

Twitter Targeted Again By Phishing Attack Through Malicious Site TwitterCut

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

Twitter is the next best thing since sliced bread but it continues to be a prime target attacked by scams, phishing, spam and even spread malicious computer infections. Once again, Twitter users are being tricked into providing their username and password details to a website that originally spammed the users ...

Remove Conficker Worm for Free and Prepare for April Fool’s Day Worm

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

If their ware a vaccine for Conficker Worm and the newest variant, Conficker.C, which some call the April Fool’s Day Worm, would you use it? A new threat of Conficker Worm has surfaced and many researchers are scrambling to not only prepare for it but remove it. Of course you ...

Koobface Worm Returns on Facebook and MySpace

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

Reports of a Facebook Worm have resurfaced and after getting many tips in it was found to be the Koobface Worm which is currently affecting Facebook and MySpace social networks. Some time ago the Koobface worm was known to be a serious parasite that may result in your system being ...

Gmail Attacked by Phishers after Outage

Friday, February 27th, 2009

Gmail had a recent outage on February 24, 2009 where the service was unreachable for about two hours and was then attacked by phishers afterwards. Reports have confirmed that right after the Gmail outage issue was resolved by Google Inc. a few days ago, users of the hosted e-mail service's ...

Antitrust Suit Filed Against Google for Being Unfair to Rival Site

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

An antitrust suit was filed Tuesday against Google by a small website operator accusing them of unfairly manipulating its advertising system to harm a potential competitor. A vertical search engine that provides a service for people looking for business products and services called SourceTool.com, is operated by TradeComent.com. As reported ...

New Firefox 3.0.6 Addresses Security Issues

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Mozilla tries to capitalize on additional web browser market share with a new Firefox 3.0.6 version that addresses security issues. Some people say that Firefox is the ironclad of web browsers when it comes to security. Maybe they are right after this recent Firefox update that addresses many security and ...