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FLAMING RETORT: Eleven UK government employees sacked over social media use...
The UK's Guardian newspaper laid into the Department for Work and Pensions yesterday with a story entitled "Eleven work and pensions civil servants sacked for using Twitter or Facebook". Where does...
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Apple acts against "bait-and-switch" scammers in the App Store
Apple announced today that the bait-and-switch of software screenshots in the App Store will no longer be allowed. Once you submit an app, you'll have to stick to your original marketing materlal until...
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Telephonic irony - "Hello, this is the Do Not Call Register calling"
It was a breach of the law serious enough to attract a $110,000 fine, but you still have to laugh. The company that operates Australia's Do Not Call Register has been found guilty of making unlawful...
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Protect against latest Java zero-day vulnerability right now: Mal/JavaJar-B
In the past 24 hours, many popular exploit kits have been found to be targeting what appears to be a new zero-day vulnerability in Java. Read this article for advice on how to fend off these attacks.
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A chink in Android Armour
SophosLabs process thousands of Android apps daily with many applications approaching the fine line between the completely legitimate and potentially unwanted applications. Android Armour a premium...
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Vulnerability reported in Foxit PDF plugin for Firefox - how to mitigate it
Italian security researcher Andrea Micalizzi has recently reported a vulnerability in the latest Foxit PDF plugin for Firefox. Paul Ducklin examines the situation and gives a simple workaround.
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My Birthday Calendar warning spreads quickly on Facebook, generating panic
Facebook users are spreading a warning to their friends and family online about a supposedly malicious application called "My birthday calendar". But are there real lessons to be learnt about sharing...
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Apple and Mozilla - 'Just say no to Java'
After the recent discovery of a zero-day vulnerability in Oracle's Java Web Start plugin Apple and Mozilla are now disabling Java by default until fixes are made available.
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Windows tablets - easy, one-stop jailbreak now available for everyone. What...
Windows RT jailbreaking is now more-or-less a click away. How should Microsoft react? Have your say in our poll...
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Neil Tennant of Pet Shop Boys has NOT died in a car crash
Facebook and Twitter users of a certain age have got themselves into a dither worrying that Neil Tennant, singer with the Pet Shop Boys, had died in a car crash. The truth is that Tennant, like other...
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Texas student appeals court order to wear "Mark of the Beast" RFID tracking...
Andrea Hernandez on Tuesday was ordered to wear an RFID tracking badge that she claims bears the "mark of the beast", but by Friday she had turned the case right back around, asking a federal appeals...
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Doctor Who's Amy Pond has her Twitter hacked
Karen Gillan, the Scottish actress who plays the character of Amy Pond in BBC's "Doctor Who" TV series, has had her Twitter account compromised.
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Canada Student Loans borrowers in giant data breach - 583,000 records gone
Human Resources and Skills Development Canada has admitted that the personal information of more than 500,000 student borrowers has gone missing, lost on an unencrypted removable hard disk. Ouch!...
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Anonymous avenges Aaron Swartz - MIT and DoJ websites allegedly hacked
Anonymous is reported to have downed the website of the Massachussets Institute of Technology. MIT's network is where internet activist Aaron Swartz was charged with leeching millions of academic...
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Fun with statistics: Who hates Java the most?
Over the past five days, lots of you have used Naked Security to find out how to turn off Java in one of the five major browsers. And that has given us browser statistics. There are too many variables...
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Medical group fined $140K for tossing patients' health records into public dump
Medical diagnoses for cancer patients, names and Social Security numbers all went into the trash, unredacted and unshredded, probably in a very misguided effort to save a few bucks on proper record...
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"Unless it is absolutely necessary to run Java in web browsers, disable it"...
Can you really justify having Java installed on your main web browser any more? Even if you have installed the latest security patch? It's time to rip Java out of your browser for better security.
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Fake anti-virus attack spread via bogus ADP anti-fraud update emails
If the person who is telling you to install a security update can't be trusted, or isn't who they claim to be, there's a chance you could be heading into even bigger danger.
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Facebook's Graph Search announcement - should you be cynical, cautious or...
Facebook's "big announcement" turns out to be Graph Search. Paul Ducklin looks at what it is, when you'll actually be able to use it, and what it means for privacy...
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Java is not JavaScript - tell your friends!
Some people are worried that turning off Java also turns off JavaScript. Despite their names, Java and JavaScript are completely different, and turning off Java will not turn off JavaScript.
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