“Chat-in-the-Middle” Phishing Attack Attempts to Steal Consumers’ Data via Bogus Live-Chat Support

September 19, 2009

A new, unique type of phishing attack targeted against online banking customers was recently discovered by the RSA FraudAction Research Lab. RSA has coined this as a “Chat-in-the-Middle” phishing attack and it is first executed through routine means but then presents a more advanced layer of perpetrating online fraud. The phishing attack may dupe bank [...]

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Facebook coming with Voice Chat

September 16, 2009

Facebook comes voice chat. Sometime in the next few weeks, the social network’s tens of millions of users will begin to be able to have high-quality voice conversations, even as its third-party developers are able to start including voice in their applications. The new technology is not being offered by Facebook itself, however. Instead, it’s [...]

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Facebook Strips Down to Lite Site

September 14, 2009

The world’s biggest social networking site has launched a slimmed-down version for people with slow or poor internet connections. Facebook has said the Lite site will be faster and simpler because it offers fewer services than the main site. Initially it is meant to support users in developing countries and where bandwidth constraints make the [...]

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New flaw causes ‘Blue Screen of Death’ on Vista, Windows 7

September 11, 2009

As Microsoft prepares to release patches, researchers said they’ve seen exploit code for a new flaw that puts organizations using Vista and Windows 7 at great risk. The flaw lies in a driver used for the SMB file-sharing feature in Windows, said Bojan Zdrnja, a handler for the SANS Internet Storm Center. Exploit code was [...]

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