Social networking has traveled a long way to reach the present stage but nobody could have ever thought that it will come along with a clever & unfriendly tag of social engineering.

Myspace, orkut & facebook are the sites who initially brought up the idea of social networking into limelight,which later on grew & is still, [...]

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FBI have disclosed on Wednesday that an ongoing cybercrime initiative, called Operation Bot Roast, has identified more than a million PCs infected with bot software and that has resulted into charges against three people for violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
The U.S. Department of Justice, along with its partners at [...]

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One of the Apple’s new patent involves the detection of wireless interference on a handheld device. According to the application, accessories can effect wireless signal of a device, particularly if the accessories are placed near the antenna or are of the unapproved aftermarket variety.

Actually this patent makes no direct reference to the iPhone and may [...]

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Cisco Systems may take over another video surveillance vendor BroadWare. BroadWare develops and distributes video surveillance systems that run over standard IP networks for government organisations and private companies. The camera networks can be accessed and managed over the web.
BroadWare represents Cisco’s second purchase of a video surveillance vendor in as many years. Last year [...]

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Two unknown hackers have announced a plan last week to make April a month of daily MySpace vulnerability disclosure. They use the online names as “Mondo Armando” and “Müstaschio” have announced a plan to release daily flaws in MySpace’s online social networking software on their Web site, while poking fun at the whole Month [...]

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This update is for the commanly used media software comes a week after a security researcher took Apple to task for its handling of security flaws. Last month reported by secuirty focus, two researchers also targeted Apple with a month dedicated to disclosing bugs in the company’s products on a daily basis. The Month of [...]

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MySpace has announced on Wednesday that they are developing a parent notification tool and age verification software. The software, codenamed Zephyr, will be a desktop application.
The current MySpace age verification software online does not allow children under the age of 14 to gain access to register for an account, it is unknown on how it [...]

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The copy protection seems to be ruined on the latest Blu-Ray and HD DVD technology has been broken, according to a code writer’s post at the Doom9 video enthusiast forums.
Someone on this forum has claimed to have written software, named BackupHDDVD, that bypasses the Advanced Access Content System (AACS) protection found on the new storage [...]

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Just after a month that the Windows Vista operating system shipped to businesses, Microsoft has confirmed that a flaw in the software appears to allow attackers to mount a privilege escalation attack.
This flaw is labelled a double-free vulnerability caused by the way the Windows operating system handles error messages to be displayed. The vulnerability in [...]

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Skype has revealed that it will be including an innovative and optional lie detector feature to its popular internet telephony service.
It is termed ‘KishKish’, this software attempts to figure out whether the caller is telling a Lie by analysing the audio stream and checking for voice stress levels.
Lying causes a  ‘fight or flight’ response in [...]

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