Apple Can’t Stop Ongoing ITunes Charge Scam (Robert McMillan/PC World)
Robert McMillan / PC World:Apple Can’t Stop Ongoing ITunes Charge Scam — Users of Apple’s iTunes services should keep a close eye on PayPal and credit card statements for fraudulent iTunes charges. — For more than a year now, scammers have been racking up unauthorized charges on iTunes accounts, leaving Apple’s customers to clean up [...]
Google fixes flaw in Audio CAPTCHA (Robert McMillan/Computerworld)
Robert McMillan / Computerworld:Google fixes flaw in Audio CAPTCHA — IDG News Service – Google has fixed a flaw in its Audio CAPTCHA software that could have given scammers a way to automatically set up phony accounts with the company’s services. — The flaw was described in a post to the Full Disclosure mailing list [...]
Facebook IDs hacker who tried to sell 1.5M accounts (Robert McMillan/Computerworld)
Robert McMillan / Computerworld:Facebook IDs hacker who tried to sell 1.5M accounts — IDG News Service – Facebook has identified the hacker named Kirllos who tried to sell 1.5 million Facebook accounts recently in underground hacking forums. According to the investigators at the social networking site, he’s guilty of both hacking and hyperbole.
More than 100 companies targeted by Google hackers (Robert McMillan/Computerworld)
Robert McMillan / Computerworld:More than 100 companies targeted by Google hackers — IDG News Service – The hackers who broke into Google two months ago have gone after more than 100 companies, according to an estimate by security vendor Isec Partners. — Researchers have been closing in on the unidentified criminals responsible …
Being gay killed a man last week – but he wasn’t Stephen Gately – Daily Mail
Victim: Ian Baynham, 62, suffered fatal head injuries in an assault in central London in which his assailants shouted homophobic abuse In the past few weeks, three men I knew have died – Kevin McGee, Stephen Gately and Robert Key. The only thing they …
Windows 8 Details Emerge – PC World
The version of Windows that succeeds Windows 7 will include a 128-bit architecture, according to an embarrassing leak from Microsoft’s research and development team in the US. Microsoft employee Robert Morgan appeared to detail the software giant’s …
