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A worm has been discovered that, when unleashed, takes over DHCP and DNS servers and sends undesired requests to more malware-containing locations. Identified by the name of Worm(dot)Ropian.E, it immediately seizes the DNS and DHCP servers.
 
Because these are some of the most important services that control Internet connections, the malware can make sure users are [...]

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From SECNAP Alerts:
USA Today is the latest media organization to have its Twitter account fall prey to hackers known as the Script Kiddies. Unlike previous Script Kiddies hacks, however, the USA Today effort apparently did not include tweets with fake news stories. Instead, the group boasted about previous hacks and encouraged people to “like” them [...]

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From SECNAP Alerts:
(Excerpted from an IT Business.ca article posted at: http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=64239)
… So, on this particular Friday afternoon, I was sorting through the alerts being generated by the new system when I ran across something odd: a large number of remote desktop connections from the Internet into some computers on our internal network. In his Aug. [...]

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There is no doubt that the iPad has changed the computing market, specifically the tablet computing segment. With nearly 25 million sold so far, with 9.25 million of that just last quarter alone, more and more of these devices are being bought and used, making it just a matter of time before they start becoming [...]

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From SECNAP Alerts:
Hundreds of Go Daddy websites were compromised to point toward a site hosting malware over the weekend of September 17 and 18. The mass hack of around 445 sites involved the injection of hostile code into the .htaccess files. Go Daddy quickly removed the hostile code, and began working with its customers to [...]

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A new scam has been making the rounds recently – scammers calling through the phone and posing as people from Microsoft, scaring victims into paying for bogus services and stealing their credit information. These fraudsters can be very persistent – so it’s important to always be alert and informed.
You have to give it to scammers for [...]

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From SECNAP Alerts:
“Hardly a day goes by without some news of a major hacker attack on government and industry information systems,” it noted. The group concluded that cyberspace has become a “multi-dimensional attack space” in which “key economic and national security assets are exposed to significant threats.”  – Intelligence and National Security Alliance Report published [...]

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The premise of a new Facebook app called “If I Die” is sweet if a little morbid: You record a video message that will be played for your loved ones after your death. As the app advertisement says: “Death can catch you anywhere, anytime. Leave your If I Die message before it’s too late.”
There’s just [...]

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Little has been reported about POS fraud since the Michaels craft store breach made headlines in May, after point of sale terminals at 90 of Michaels’ 964 U.S. stores were reportedly compromised as part of a POS-swap scam waged by an organized crime ring.  But now a new payment card breach, this time striking a [...]

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Have you ever struggled with fitting the contents of your Excel spreadsheet on one page? There are several ways to get around this, one of which is to use the Print Preview option in Excel.
While in Print Preview mode, click the Margins button or tick the Show Margins checkbox to display the margins in Excel. [...]

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