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The Web's Untouchable Ghost Towns

Spammers can only operate for so long before they're found out and shut down. Once eradicated, they leave a virtual ghost town behind them. Scores of Internet addresses have been abandoned this way, says The Washington Post, creating ...READ»

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What Can Yahoo Learn From Malware?

Search engines would be more efficient if they were decentralized, reports MIT's Technology Review. In other words, they'd be faster if they were run like bot-nets. Bot-nets are networks of zombie computers whose processing resources ...READ»

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Did Sinking Pirate Bay Cause More Piracy? And Does It Matter Anyway?

Pro-copyright activists celebrated while file-sharers cried at rulings on the Pirate Bay's illegality, and the subsequent attempts to sink the site. But some new data suggests piracy sites tripled in the aftermath, which really ...READ»

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Kanye West is Alive, But Memes May Be In Danger

Even if you hate the jackass who stole Taylor Swift's spotlight, it pays to know that Kanye lives. Why? Because the rabble have turned it into a Google-beating malware scheme that could punk you into downloading some bad ...READ»

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Fast History: Storm Botnet Sends 57 Million Emails in One Day, 2007

For computer viruses everywhere, today is something akin to the day Michael Phelps won his eighth gold medal. Two years ago today, the Storm botnet (sometimes called the Storm worm botnet) had a career day, sending a record 57 million ...READ»

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The Facebook Email Scam: Have You Been Hit?

For the last two weeks, a phishing and malware scam propagated virally through Facebook, taking control of member accounts and blasting their friends with bogus messages. Today, a new wave of attacks hit, getting broader traction ...READ»

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10 Questions About the Facebook Hack Attacks

On Thursday night, Facebook was attacked by hackers for the fourth time this month. Who is behind the attacks isn't known, but the malefactors appear to be using several old tricks--phishing, malware downloads, and other ...READ»

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Is PC Virus Fear Breeding More Attacks?

Hands up if you've ever had a PC virus? Yup, thought so. It's a ubiquitous and persistent problem that's dogged Microsoft and its users for decades. Now Microsoft's published a security report that sheds an interesting light on the ...READ»

Google Bombing and the IRS

Google Bombing and the IRS

It's tax time, and many of us will heed the IRS' suggestion to download forms and file electronically. But as I learned, malicious black hat hackers have hijacked Google's IRS search results to deliver nasty malware. Here’s how. READ»

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Internet Explorer 8 Out: Clever and More Secure

Internet Explorer: Whether you like it, loathe it or take legal action against it, it's still a force to be reckoned with in the browser wars. And today, Microsoft let loose the full edition of the software's latest ...READ»

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Guard Yourself for the Holidays with VIPRE Antivirus & Antispyware

Holiday season is the prime time for cyber attacks.  Because of the spike in online shopping during the months of November and December, you are more prone to cyber attacks than at any other time during the year.  This Black Friday ...READ»

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Guard Yourself for the Holidays with VIPRE Antivirus & Antispyware

  Holiday season is the prime time for cyber attacks.  Because of the spike in online shopping during the months of November and December, you are more prone to cyber attacks than at any other time during the year.  This Black ...READ»

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