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Protect and Defend: 32 Ways to Secure Your Digital Life

January 18, 2011
Protect and Defend: 32 Ways to Secure Your Digital Life

For every freedom and convenience we enjoy in our digital lives, there are countless cyber do-badders looking for ways to exploit them. Fight back with these 32 ways to protect your digital life!

Mark. Sucker. Victim. Yeah, that’s you viewed through…

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Angry Gamer Holds ‘Runes of Magic’ Hostage

January 18, 2011
Angry Gamer Holds ‘Runes of Magic’ Hostage

There’s no such reality show called “When Gamers Attack,” but if there was to be one, Frogster’s Runes of Magic game would take center stage.
Here’s the deal. A user who goes by the nick “augustus87″ is pretty pissed off with how the German outfit is r…

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Security Report Downplays Risk of Cyber Warfare

January 18, 2011
Security Report Downplays Risk of Cyber Warfare

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released a controversial security report (PDF) on Monday in which the organization said “it is unlikely that there will ever be a true cyberware.” In the report, its authors Peter Sommer…

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Kama Sutra PowerPoint Comes with an STD

January 17, 2011
Kama Sutra PowerPoint Comes with an STD

With Valentine’s Day less than a month away, you may want to think about how you’ll celebrate the occasion with your significant other. We’re not jumping to conclusions on where your relationship is at, but if preparation includes brushing up your know…

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Adobe Vows to Better Manage Flash Cookies

January 17, 2011
Adobe Vows to Better Manage Flash Cookies

Deleting your browser cookies is supposed to throw websites off your trail, but that isn’t always the case. All a determined website has to do is drop a backup cookie into Adobe Flash’s local storage, so unless you clean that out as well, they can stil…

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Stolen MacBook Contains Valuable Cancer Research

January 14, 2011
Stolen MacBook Contains Valuable Cancer Research

An Oklahoma couple is offering a ‘No questions asked $1,000 reward’ for the safe return of their 13-inch MacBook, a small price to pay for what’s contained on the hard drive. According to the couple, there’s a possible cure for cancer with years worth …

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Google Hands Out $3,133.7 Reward for Chrome Bug

January 14, 2011
Google Hands Out $3,133.7 Reward for Chrome Bug

Google’s Chromium Security Rewards program offers participants cash bounties for the discovery of eligible bugs. Rewards range in value from $500 to an ‘elite’ $3133.7 (get it?), and up until now, that max payout has never been claimed.
Enter Sergey Gl…

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Trend Micro: Android More Vulnerable than iPhone

January 12, 2011
Trend Micro: Android More Vulnerable than iPhone

According to security software maker Trend Micro, Apple’s iPhone trumps Google’s open-source Android platform when it comes to viruses.
“Android is open-source, which means the hacker can also understand the underlying architecture and source code,” St…

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