Archive for April 2012
April 2, 2012
· 10 Devious Website Features Designed to Rip You Off
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· Intellectual impunity vs the right to bikini photos
· Teacher's aide suspended for refusing to let school look at her Facebook page
April 3, 2012
· Do-it-yourself plan to take down Sality botnet outlined on public mailing list
· ISPs and entertainment industry kick off copyright enforcement center
· Coolest jobs in tech: hackers for hire
· Mac Flashback trojan exploits unpatched Java vulnerability, no password needed
· Are you having a (Mac) Flashback?
· 52 Apple Tips
April 4, 2012
· Apple holds the master decryption key when it comes to iCloud security, privacy
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· Reading the Privacy Policies You Encounter in a Year Would Take 76 Work Days
· Judge tosses P2P lawsuits because attorney was practicing without a licence
· How to hide emails from government snooping
· Yahoo cuts 2,000 jobs as radical reshaping begins
· Apple iPhone Case Now Comes with a Condom Slot
· Flashback trojan reportedly controls half a million Macs and counting
April 5, 2012
· Facebook logins easily slurped from iOS, Android kit
· Adobe releases open source malware classification tool
· Anonymous and Lulzec hackers evolving to target corporate data to cause financial pain
· Rogue US Airways-themed emails distribute ZeuS-based malware
· Yep 3.0.2 released on the Mac App Store
· Documents Show Cops Making Up Mobile Surveillance Rules
April 6, 2012
· Accused LulzSec member pleads guilty to hacking Sony
· Hacker jailed for stealing 8 million identities
April 7, 2012
· Activists fight "cyber-security" bill that would give NSA more data
· CISPA: Congressional plan to censor Internet concerns critics
April 8, 2012
· Top 10 Most Creative MacBook Stickers
· Manual Removal Instructions of the Flashback Infection on F-Secure
April 9, 2012
· US government hires company to hack into video game consoles
· Jocelyn Goldfein, Facebook Engineer, Explains Why It Matters There Aren't More Girl Geeks
· "Anonymous" says plans more attacks against China sites
April 10, 2012
· FBI: Smart Meter Hacks Likely to Spread
· Sophos takes down partner portal after signs of hacking
· The misunderstood 'digital native' has a two-minute attention span
April 11, 2012
· Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn Resigns
· Brothers plead guilty to stealing $1.4M in crazy online scam
· Police mysteriously lose video of Megaupload raid
· WiFi Scanner 1.5.4 released on the Mac App Store
· How to Tell If an Email Is a Phishing Scam
· After Best Buy Swipes His Driver's License: No Returns For 90 Days
April 12, 2012
· Leap 3.0.2 released on the Mac App Store
· How to Remove Facebook Timeline
April 13, 2012
· Expert witness says most popular Hotfile downloads are open source apps
April 15, 2012
· U.S. judge finds for MegaUpload, orders DOJ to cooperate on user files
· The Black Friday Timeline: One Year Without Online Poker
· Google fined $25,000, but cleared of Street View data misuse
April 16, 2012
· Five OS X security threats that fizzled
April 17, 2012
· Two More Mac Trojans Discovered
· Man Linked to 'Anonymous' Pleads Not Guilty
· TSA inspector accused of stealing iPads at DFW Airport
· Little boy lost finds his mother using Google Earth
· Microsoft makes Windows 8 official, will have four editions
· How to Remove the Facebook Timeline
April 18, 2012
· Scent of Apple: MacBook Pro fragrance created
· Gmail hit by massive outage: Up to 35 million affected
April 19, 2012
· Ex-FBI cyberexpert: Potential for digital Pearl Harbor is real
· Symantec Achieves Highest Number of SSL Certificates Issued Globally
· Google warns 20,000 websites they could be infected with malware
· WiFi Scanner 1.6 available on the Mac App Store
April 20, 2012
· Active fake AV spam campaigns hit Twitter
· 15-year-old arrested for hacking 259 companies
April 21, 2012
· 3 million bank accounts hacked in Iran
· Kaspersky says Mac Flashback infections have dropped to 30K
· Web could vanish for hordes of people in July, FBI warns
April 22, 2012
· As many as 100,000 WordPress blogs infected 700,000 Macs with malware
· 10 Geeky Ways to Celebrate Earth Day (GeekDad Wayback Machine)
April 23, 2012
· University of Florida Eliminates Computer Science Department, Increases Athletic Budgets
· Denver Broncos to use Apple's iPad as playbook for 2012 NFL season
· Tor-hidden online narcotics store, 'The Farmer's Market', brought down in multinational sting
· London Marathon website goof leaks 38,000 contact details
April 24, 2012
· Pixelmator 2.0.3 released on the Mac App Store
· Another Mac Flashback variant out, but still uses same (patched) vulnerability
· Nissan Hacked; Employee Credentials Stolen
April 25, 2012
· 100 million users might be affected by a social network vulnerability
April 26, 2012
· VMware source code leak: 'IT equivalent of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill'
· Researchers Find Bug in SMS App That Can Lead to iPhone Exploits
· Macs more likely to carry Windows malware than Mac malware, Sophos says
April 27, 2012
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April 28, 2012
· Oracle to bring Java SE7 to Mac users later this year
· Google has been cleared of wire-tapping violations in connection with the Google Street View WiFi-sniffing scanda
· 'Obstinate' Conficker worm infests millions of PCs years later
April 30, 2012
· First 802.11ac WF-Fi router coming from Netgear
· Nvidia uncorks world's fastest video card, the GeForce GTX 690
· Bill banning employer Facebook snooping introduced in Congress






