Archive for May 21st, 2010

“A virus is attacking my computer”

Friday, May 21st, 2010
“A virus is attacking my computer”

Today, as virtually everyone knows, Google put Pacman on the homepage.I got the following note from Mike Williams, one of our support managers, this afternoon:"We had a new kind of 'virus' attack today that people were calling in about. A few people in... »

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Pa. Atty. General subpoenas Twitter to get identities

Friday, May 21st, 2010
Pa. Atty. General subpoenas Twitter to get identities

The Attorney General of Pennsylvania (and Republican candidate for governor) Tom Corbett has subpoenaed Twitter to find the identities of "bfbarbie" and "CasablancaPA."News accounts say Corbett wants information on the two accounts because they were us... »

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On the Web, your browser history is an open book

Friday, May 21st, 2010
On the Web, your browser history is an open book

CSS are watching youResearchers Artur Janc and Lukasz Olejnik have made public a paper "Feasibility and Real-World Implications of Web Browser History Detection" that describes how a decade old “feature” of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) allows Web s... »

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PUP on Facebook’s Mafia Wars

Friday, May 21st, 2010
PUP on Facebook’s Mafia Wars

FB does a fast takedownA researcher we know who prefers not to be named found this on the Zynga game Mafia Wars. When you shared it, you were offered a free gift if you completed a survey.The free gift you got was an installation of MyWebSearch which S... »

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