Thaksin to seek political asylum in Britain

Well, when there is act there is always consequence either is bad or good...think about it Mr. Thaksin."Thaksin, 59, and his wife Pojaman, 51, and their three adult children fled to London last week. Pojaman has been...

Computer security consultant charged with infecting a quarter million computers

I came across this story which was published on the US Department of Justice website today and after reading the story, I had to share this with the NowPublic community.This 26 year old has been controlling OUR computers without our knowledge for sometime now.  The thing...

Internet Security: Browser Problems Only Tip of the Iceberg

A very good study and analysis of security on the Internet points out not only vulnerabilities in add-ons, but the public's perception of the lack of "sell by" dates for software." Just as a floating iceberg only exhibits part of its mass above the waterline, we believe that...

Why Would a Virus Look at Kiddie Porn?

Michael Fiola, a 53-year-old state employee was set free of child-pornography charges by a Massachusetts court, It was alleged that he had accessed the illegal material at work, but an extensive forensic investigation of his computer revealed that viruses and other malicious...

Bomb? No - just a Ticking baby doll at German NATO base

"Published: 2 Jun 08 17:58 CETOnline: http://www.thelocal.de/12243/Police thought there was a bomb in front of the NATO Airbase in Geilenkirchen on Monday morning, but instead found a malfunctioning baby doll. Military police on patrol at the base in the German state of North...

BBC Scares Everyone in the World off Facebook

Old media strikes back!"The BBC has been able set up a malicious application that can steal details of not only your information but the people you’re connected with. This is because in Facebook, applications have...

BBC Exposes Risk of Identity Theft on Facebook

Facebook users appear to be not only a very trusting bunch, but also avid adopters of add-on application that clutter up their profile pages while stealthily stealing their personal information.The BBC spent a...

Computer viruses hit one million

UPDATE with how to protect your computer from viruses. Computer viruses has reached the one million mark from the first day they were born. So far, my computer has been infected by 28 of them. How's about yours?...

18-year-old hacker convicted in New Zealand

Amazing that someone so young could commit such an enormously complex crime."A New Zealand teenager accused of involvement in an international cyber-crimering which skimmed millions of dollars from bank accounts has been convictedof illegal computer hacking.Owen Thor Walker,...

Google warns of 'drive by downloads'

Just when you thought it was safe to not go out again..."The search engine giant trained its Web crawling software on billions of Web addresses over the past year looking for malicious pages that tried to attack...

MySpace page serves up fake Microsoft security update

Just a quick heads-up for Myspace users."According to security vendor McAfee, one of the profiles on MySpace currently serves up a fraudulent Microsoft security update that, if clicked, attempts to load malicious software. The profile of a 42-year-old woman from Arkansas...

Ego Can Push You Into Spyware Maze

"The malicious widget, called "Secret Crush" first appears as a Facebook request...In opening the request, the recipient is informed that one of his/her friends has invited him/her to find out more information by using "Secret Crush" (this happens frequently with Facebook's...

Happy New Year and Dangerous Computer Infections

lthough we're all expecting to see a rise in the number of web attacks, there are only a few weak spam campaigns currently in progress with low damage potential and pretty easy to detect malicious attachments. Security company F-Secure today found another spamattack...

Public Warning on this malicious, violent individual

Public service announcement, a dangerous malicious individual named charlotte Jarvis lives amongst us. as one of her victims already, I feel its only right to warn the public about her so that hopefully no one else becomes another one of her victims.

Hackers will target Facebook and MySpace, experts say

Should we be flattered that hackers want our status updates and newsfeeds?  Who knows what can happen once they figure out that "Rob is...feeling a little blue today."  Ahh!"Social networking sites like...

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