Social networking sites, sometimes referred to as “friend-of-a-friend” sites, build upon the concept of traditional social networks where you are connected to new people through people you already know. The purpose of some networking sites may be purely social, allowing users to establish friendships or romantic relationships, while others may focus on establishing business connections.
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Malicious hackers have fitted rootkit features into the newest mutants of the Bagle worm, adding a stealthy new danger to an already virulent threat.
According to virus hunters at F-Secure, of Helsinki, Finland, the latest Bagle.GE variant loads a kernel-mode driver to hide the processes and registry keys of itself and other Bagle-related malware from security scanners.
In an unusual form of phishing, hackers cracked the computers hosting the Web sites of three Florida banks, redirecting banking customers to a bogus homepage in order to steal account information and other personal data.
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Technology has been instrumental in ending yet another long-standing relationship. Hot on the heels of tales of a woman who blames a bug in Firefox for exposing the flaws in her relationship with a fiancé and a man whose relationship was hit by the spam filtering shortcomings of Thunderbird, comes the story of a software programmer who unearthed evidence of his partner’s infidelity using Ethereal, the packet sniffing software.
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A commercial product that records information about an individual’s mobile phone calls and SMS messages before sending them to a remote server has been labeled as malware by security researchers. FlexiSPY is described by Finnish anti-virus firm F-Secure as the first Symbian Trojan spy. The firm behind FlexiSPY, Thai-based Vervata, denies this accusation.
Ridding a network of Windows computers of a virus or worm can seem impossible. Viruses may cause computers to reboot and infect new machines while you are in the process of removing them. Through the use of the live-software installer, Knoppix provides a solution to this catch-22.
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Vincent Fusca trusts his staff. But he can’t take any chances. It’s all about the money.
As operations director at Dartmouth Medical School’s Center for Evaluative Clinical Studies in Hanover, N.H., Fusca oversees the handling of nearly 7TB of raw medical data from the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Studies. Programmers aggregate and refine the data down to data-analysis sets that researchers use to publish some of the most comprehensive comparative medical research in the U.S.
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Google Inc. has mud on its face after staffers accidentally deleted the company’s main official blog Monday night and a user unaffiliated with Google temporarily took possession of the Web address.
The deletion is just the latest of several embarrassing mistakes made by Google employees while handling company data.
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Hundreds of malicious websites are attempting to exploit the most critical of two flaws announced last week in Microsoft’s browser, convincing two companies to release workarounds late Monday to head off the threat.
