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Goolag Scanner brings Google hacking to the masses

February 27th, 2008 by Shanmuga


"An infamous hacking group called Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc) recently released a tool called Goolag Scanner, which simplifies and automates Google hacking.
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Privacy: Google Says IP Addresses Aren’t Personal

February 23rd, 2008 by Shanmuga


"Google has responded to European regulators who have suggested that Internet Protocol addresses of users be considered personally identifiable information. Not surprisingly, it disagrees.
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Phishing: Future Phishing

December 30th, 2007 by Shanmuga


mho0014-04-jan-08.jpg"Forget the Nigerian prince. Phishing scams are moving beyond the misspelled, far-fetched ruses that clog your in-box and beg for your bank codes. In the year to come, security professionals are warning of bank code-stealing exploits that are much slicker and more convincing–hidden in guises as harmless as a banner ad on a reputable Web site or a message from a friend on a social network.
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Malware: Hackers exploit Bhutto assassination

December 30th, 2007 by Shanmuga


mho0011-04-jan-08.jpg"Searches for news about Bhutto’s killing and the ensuing chaos in Pakistan listed sites pimping a bogus video coder/decoder (codec), said analysts at McAfee Inc., Symantec Corp. and WebSense Inc. For instance, WebSense found such a site simply by using "benazir" to search on Google. Meanwhile, McAfee quickly located 10 sites hosted on Blogger.com, Google Inc.’s blog service, that were spreading the fake codec.
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