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Posts Tagged ‘Security’

February 2nd, 2009

Google’s malware goof - a personal experience and perspective

Over the weekend, Google Search was rendered useless for about an hour on Saturday thanks to human error where every Web page was considered dangerous malware (Information Week has an excellent overview of what happened). Google posted on its search…

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August 24th, 2008

Facebook virus and compromised accounts - are we all vulnerable?

In the past few hours, I’ve received two Facebook messages with suspicious links. The first one I checked out the link carefully and it prompted me to download a “Flash update”. That message was quickly trashed and I thought nothing…

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