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From SECNAP Alerts:
101Domain.com appeared to suffer a security breach that “may have resulted in unauthorized access to your personal information and possibly payment information.”
According to Webhosting.info, 101domain.com has about 10,000 domain names under management.
 
A message by 101Domain.com to its customers explains: “We need to make you aware of a security breach that may potentially have [...]

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From SECNAP Alerts:
PayPal users have been targeted again with phishing emails supposedly sent by the online payment company, Help Net Security reported on November 25.
 
With “You have changed your PayPal email address” in the subject line, the sender attempts to convince the recipient that someone has accessed their account and changed the email address. Recipients [...]

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From SECNAP Alerts:
Protecting your online identity can be as easy as A-B-C, as long as you don’t make “abc123″ or “password” your Internet password!
It seems like an issue of common sense, but even as we head into 2012 and people are becoming more and more tech savvy, a lot of web users are clueless about [...]

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From SECNAP Alerts:
After researchers discovered OpFake, a mobile Trojan that shares code with Spitmo, another newcomer identified as SymbOS/ConBot has been found having the same characteristics. F-Secure specialists came across the premium SMS sender and determined it has a sophisticated way of functioning, but unlike OpFake, it does not rely on fake Opera updates.
Found on [...]

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AT&T Inc., the largest U.S. telephone company, has notified customers of an effort by hackers to collect online account information. “We recently detected an organized and systematic attempt to obtain information on a number of AT&T customer accounts, including yours,” AT&T said in an email to customers. “We do not believe that the perpetrators of [...]

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Ever surfed for the number of a pizza place on your iPhone and just wanted to dial the phone number straight from the webpage? If you are using the default browser on your iPhone, which is Safari, that’s no problem at all.
Safari automatically converts numbers that look like phone numbers into links. If you press [...]

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As Android market share has shot up in recent months, so has the volume of malware designed for the mobile platform. There has been a 472 percent increase in Android malware samples in the past three months alone, according to research from Juniper Networks. While September saw a 28 percent jump in malware samples, numbers [...]

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The knee-jerk reaction to Facebook of most businesses is to throw it out the door. But many companies also need to realize the value of using a massive social networking platform like Facebook to help the business grow and put itself out in the market more.
When it comes to Facebook, the usual default attitude of [...]

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In Outlook, you can color code messages addressed only to you, to easily identify messages that may be more important or require action from you.
Go to the Tools menu and choose Organize. In the “Using Colors” section, select the “Turn on” button next to “Show messages sent only to me in Blue.” You can also [...]

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The use of social networking websites such as Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin is exploding, with some using them even while in the workplace. While these sites offer work-related benefits such as fostering better workplace communication and collaboration, they also expose the organization to risks as well. Some of the risks borne out of social networks [...]

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