IT Security: Zappos.Com admits huge security breach.
Non-US visitors to Zappos.com get the following message: "We are so sorry – we are currently not accepting international traffic." Well, someone has got in.
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IT Security: Microsoft ceases use of "supercookies."Researchers have found that Microsoft used a small piece of code, embedded in a cookie, to defeat the removal of tracking cookies. Microsoft says it had planned to remove the trick from MSN, Bing...
IT Security: US Cert released latest vulnerability summaryOn 17 May 2011, the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) released its Vulnerability Summary for the week of 9 May 2011. As usual, some programmes in widespread use appear, as does more...
IT Security: Drive-by downloads? How about drive-home monitoring?Bryan and Crystal Byrd are mightily angered by the actions of a computer hire shop, according to a court action they have issued in a US Federal Court in which they allege that video camera softw...
IT Security: USA's FBI blocks Coreflood botnetThe FBI says "The Coreflood virus infects only Microsoft Windows based computers. Generally most users will not be able to tell if their computers are infected." After seizing computer...
IT Security: purchase of fraudulent SSL certificates "state driven."Comodo, a provider of Secure Socket Layer (SSL) certificates which verify the authenticity of a website, says that it has uncovered a fraud in which certificates were purchased in the names of le...
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