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Four Signs of an Easy Victim on Social Networks

16 February 2010

CSO, 15 Feb 10: Earlier this month, CSO reported that cybercrime attacks on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn have exploded, according to a recent survey conducted by security firm Sophos(See: Facebook, Twitter, Social Network Attacks Tripled in 2009).
Reports of malware and spam rose 70 percent on social networks in the last 12 months and 57 percent [...]

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How The Hackers Took Google: A Theory

8 February 2010

The Atlantic, 6 Feb 10: Fred Chang has a theory about how hackers affiliated with the Chinese government hacked into Google and at least two dozen other major American companies. Chang is a professor of computer science at the University of Texas — so we should listen to him. But he is also the former [...]

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