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From SECNAP Alerts:
As Hurricane Irene barreled toward the eastern seaboard, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security warned government agencies and private companies to be on the lookout for storm-related phishing attacks and other malicious cyberactivity. The agency said that cybercriminals go into overdrive during highly publicized physical events such as hurricanes and earthquakes.
“Both government agencies [...]

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From SECNAP Alerts:
An online community used by developers of Nokia phone apps has been hacked. The company warned that members’ personal information, including dates of birth and email addresses may have been stolen.
Nokia’s developer forums have been temporarily shut down while the security breach is investigated. So far no-one has claimed responsibility for the attack [...]

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From SECNAP Alerts:
There was a time long, long ago when Download.com was the place I went for software. It’s been years, however, as the site repeatedly showed signs of devolving into a site every bit as bothersome as the many third-tier software repositories that hide genuine links below clever-placed advertisements and bundle toolbars with their [...]

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From SECNAP Alerts:
A proposed class-action lawsuit filed in federal court in Chicago on Tuesday accuses online tracking and analytics firm comScore of surreptitiously collecting Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, passwords and other data from consumer systems.
The lawsuit also accuses comScore of a wide range of other misdeeds, including:

changing security settings and opening backdoors on [...]

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Yale University has notified about 43,000 faculty, staff, students and alumni that their names and Social Security numbers were publicly available via Google search for about 10 months. All of the victims were affiliated with Yale in 1999, and are being offered identity theft insurance and free credit monitoring services for two years, the university [...]

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From SECNAP Alerts:
Until recently, medical files belonging to nearly 300,000 Californians sat unsecured on the Internet for the entire world to see. There were insurance forms, Social Security numbers and doctors’ notes. Among the files were summaries that spelled out, in painstaking detail, a trucker’s crushed fingers, a maintenance worker’s broken ribs and one man’s [...]

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Another defense contractor’s network and data has apparently fallen to the combined skills of hackers attacking Websites under the “AntiSec” banner.
Members of hacktivist collective Anonymous have reportedly breached servers belonging to defense contractor Vanguard Defense Industries (VDI) as part of the movement to steal and publicize documents from government agencies, according to a report in [...]

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From SECNAP Alerts:
Logging in from a Smyrna, Georgia, McDonald’s restaurant, a former employee of a U.S. pharmaceutical company was able to wipe out most of the company’s computer infrastructure earlier this year. Jason Cornish, 37, formerly an IT staffer at the U.S. subsidiary of Japanese drug-maker Shionogi, pleaded guilty Tuesday to computer intrusion charges in [...]

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Google is making its searches more effective through the introduction of Google +1, an experimental program that allows users to recommend websites by pressing a +1 icon that appears beside Google search results. Visit google.com/experimental and see what the fuss is all about.
While still in the experimental stage, there is a lot to be excited [...]

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Sometimes you need to find out your IP address for networking, troubleshooting, gaming, or tech support purposes. There are two IP addresses you may need to consider—your “external” IP address (the IP address the rest of the world sees to locate your computer or network) and your “internal” IP address (which identifies your particular computer [...]

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