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How The Murdoch Email And Website Hacks Could Happen To You

Rupert Murdoch's digital properties were aggressively penetrated this week, with a website hacking and a treasure trove of corporate emails stolen. Here's how this sort of catastrophe could hit your company, and what you can do to stop it. READ»

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Twitter's New Mouse-Over Feature Is a Widely Abused Security Loophole

Twitter's fallen prey to hackers seduced by its growing popularity: It has a wicked security loophole for visitors to its newly refreshed website--all it requires you to do is drift your mouse pointer over a malicious link. It's being widely abused.READ»

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Secure Browsing Ain't So Secure, After All

Engineers have discovered a major flaw in a technology that many Web developers use to ensure secure browsing, reports InfoWorld. SSL, or Secure Sockets Layer communications, are used in any Web service whose address begins with ...READ»