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When Facebook broke all records with its $100 billion IPO, security experts wondered if the news would make it an even bigger target for hackers. But let’s face it, with the world’s largest social network climbing toward a bil...

With the World Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) launch safely under our belts, organizations will inevitably be faced with the daunting task of upgrading every device connected to their network—no small task for any company t...

Cybercrime was thwarted a bit during the last full week of May, with arrests that ranged from an alleged high profile cybercriminal to a small time hacker. And researchers possibly found a way to combat a major SSL spoof that p...

Kids these days. Up to their usual antics like cutting class, inventing new senior pranks and…hacking into computer systems? Lately, high school campuses have been the breeding grounds for what seems to be a rash of teenage cy...

For the most part, we all know what NOT to do when it comes to security best practices. We all know not to click on unsolicited links embedded in e-mail or IM. We all know not to open any strange attachments or respond to suspi...

Security took a few unexpected twists and turns for the first week of April. For one, Mac owners received a bit of a jolt when a rapidly spreading botnet ran rampant on their machines. Meanwhile, Anonymous is expanding its reac...

Once upon a time in 2009 the City of Bozeman, Montana found itself at the brunt of a public firestorm when it became known that members had the audacity to request social networking credentials from applicants. Oh, those were ...

“Big” seemed to epitomize last week in security—from big botnet takedowns to big breaches to big privacy issues related to a certain social networking site. Here is this week’s lowdown. Zeus Takedown: Microsoft kicked of...

A couple of days back, a game of Nerd Truth or Dare in the lab led to the shocking revelation that most of us were using our Facebook/Twitter accounts mainly to keep up with security blogs. Personally, being a twitter non-confo...

A while ago, probably after a long and difficult day, I got into this funny idea of encrypting my Facebook account messages so that only the people I really wanted to could read them (i.e not an unknown stranger using Firesheep...

Our sensors (i.e. our digital media person, a rabid fan of Facebook) caught today some interesting Facebook private messages. One of such, sent by a “Friend” to about 100 contacts of hers, merely consisted in a doma...

The Koobface worm scouring Facebook since last July, and which made the headlines again this week, is certainly beginning to redesign the concept of “friend. ” The “acquaintance from high school you’ve n...