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Patch Tuesday - now for 28 products in the Oracle stable

Patch Tuesday - now for 28 products in the Oracle stable

You'd think that Patch Tuesday - like Casual Friday - would be a weekly thing. But it isn't - and the timing depends on the vendor.

Last week, Microsoft had its turn. This week, a whole constellation of Oracle products get critical updates.

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Lil Wayne's Twitter account shut down after hack attack

Lil Wayne's Twitter account shut down after hack attack

Lil Wayne's Twitter account has been taken offline, after someone hacked into the popular rapper's account this weekend and posted a series of joke messages.

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Malicious Iframe infects PHP-Nuke site....again!

Detection-scan for phpnuke

Last May, I blogged about PHP-Nuke's official site being hacked. Imagine my surprise when I saw the site come up again in my malware feed.

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Rogue Facebook apps can now access your home address and mobile phone number

Rogue Facebook apps can now access your home address and mobile phone number

Do you really want complete strangers being able to access your mobile phone number and home address?

Facebook plays a dangerous game with new ability for application developers.

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Zodiac sign survey scam spreading virally on Facebook

Zodiac sign survey scam spreading virally on Facebook

Did Zodiac signs change in 2011? No, they didn't. But Facebook scammers are taking advantage of the rumour to make money.

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Scammers exploit viral video of girl falling into fountain while texting

Scammers exploit viral video of girl falling into fountain while texting

A girl falls into a mall's fountain because she's too busy concentrating on texting.

When the video becomes an internet sensation, cybercriminals are only too quick to jump on the bandwagon.

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Prize winners - the Sophos NYE 2010 crossword

Prize winners - the Sophos NYE 2010 crossword

Do you know how to extract the tail of the tail of a Lisp list?

I thought not. Even some of our prize winners didn't, and had to ask for help!

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Sophos Security Chet Chats 42 and 43

Sophos Security Chet Chat 41

Sophos Security Chet Chat 42 features Tony Ross discussing the news and a advanced fee fraud scam he investigated originating in Ghana. In Chet Chat 43 Paul Ducklin of Sophos Australia is our guest bringing his perspective from down under about Patch Tuesday, Vodafone, this quarter's Dirty Dozen and the new Mac App Store

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I've won three million Euros from Bill Gates!

I've won three million Euros from Bill Gates!

Naked Security writer Graham Cluley announces his retirement, after winning three million Euros from Bill Gates.

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Sarah Palin's email hacker is imprisoned, against judge's recommendation

Sarah Palin's email hacker is imprisoned, against judge's recommendation

It was a computer security story that made headlines around the world, involving the private emails of a woman who could have become Vice President of the United States.

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Targeted attacks - going beyond the technicalities

Targeted attacks - going beyond the technicalities

Security Art's Iftach Ian Amit discusses targeted attacks and how you should go beyond just technology to defend against them.

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LiveJournal bots drown out political discussion with spam and porn

LiveJournal bots drown out political discussion with spam and porn

LiveJournal users who post about the controversial trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky are finding that bots are swamping discussions with spam and pornographic content.

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First status scams continue to plague Facebook users

First status scams continue to plague Facebook users

Should Facebook do a better job of warning its users about scams, and offer more timely advice on how to avoid cybercrime on the social network?

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Death by PowerPoint? Kama Sutra presentation leads to backdoor infection

Kamasutra presentation leads to backdoor infection

Would you be interested in a PowerPoint presentation demonstrating different sexual positions from the Kama Sutra?

Watch what you do with your mouse - you could be leading to a malware infection.

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Patch Tuesday for January - what you need to know

Patch Tuesday for January - what you need to know

In the first Patch Tuesday of 2011, Microsoft published just two security bulletins, fixing three vulnerabilities with two patches.

That leaves some critical vulnerabilities still unpatched. Learn what you can do to hold the fort until they are fixed.

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Report reveals the dirty dozen top spam-relaying countries

Report reveals the dirty dozen top spam-relaying countries

A new report by Sophos has revealed the top twelve spam-relaying countries - and, once again, it's bad news for the United States.

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Korean DDoS arrests - be warned, you can be caught

Korean DDoS arrests - you can be caught

Two Korean hackers from a server rental company have been arrested over DDoS attacks against rivals.

Seems they also attacked a prospective customer who turned down their cloud services - an interesting sales technique!

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LinkedIn scam - the fraudulent survey which wasn't

LinkedIn scan - the fraudulent survey which wasn't

Last week, when many people were still on holiday, Naked Security readers started complaining about suspicious-looking emails appearing to be from popular business networking site LinkedIn.

It certainly looked like a scam. But was it?

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Scammers target government job site - seasonal workers most at risk

Scammers target government job site - seasonal workers most at risk

Scammers have recently been targeting job seekers in Australia, aiming a phishing campaign at users of the government's job search site.

Seasonal agricultural workers are probably most at risk.

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Facebook will NOT end on March 15th. Hoax news story spreads like wildfire

Facebook will NOT end on March 15th. Hoax news story spreads like wildfire

A story is spreading like wildfire across Facebook this weekend, claiming that the world's most popular social network is going to shut down on March 15th.

But what's the truth?

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