iTunes Scam: How to Protect Yourself

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• iTunes Scam: How to Protect Yourself
• Privacy Watch: Privacy and Location in Apple's iOS 4
• Microsoft Binary Planting Bug: What You Need to Know
• Rustock botnet responsible for 40 percent of spam
• Worried About ID Theft? Join the Club
• Rustock botnet ditches encryption to ramp spam
• Foursquare Privacy Basics: 5 Tips to 'Secure' Your Check-Ins
• Malicious Spam Exploits Fake Celebrity Deaths
• Hackers bait Zeus botnet trap with dead celeb tales
• Free tool from Team Cymru aims to help fight malware
• Registry operator Afilias embraces DNS security
• Newest E-mail Scams: Could They Fool You?

iTunes Scam: How to Protect Yourself Posted: 24 Aug 2010 09:00 AM PDT In recent weeks, more and more iTunes users have been reporting fraudulent activity on their Apple accounts, reporting hundreds or even thousands of dollars worth of bogus purchases. With the reports of this type of fraud on the uptick in recent weeks, many users have been quick to blame Apple or PayPal, as many of the affected iTunes accounts were linked to PayPal accounts.

Privacy Watch: Privacy and Location in Apple's iOS 4 Posted: 24 Aug 2010 09:00 AM PDT Apple's new iOS 4 operating system for iPhone 3G and above pays close attention to your location, in good and maybe not-so-good ways.

Microsoft Binary Planting Bug: What You Need to Know Posted: 24 Aug 2010 09:00 AM PDT Microsoft released a security advisory in response to a potential exploit, known as DLL preloading or binary planting, which has been found to impact hundreds of third-party Windows applications--possibly including software developed by Microsoft itself. Unfortunately, this isn't a simple Windows vulnerability that Microsoft can fix with its next patch release, so it's important that you understand the flaw and what is at risk, as well as what you can do to protect your systems.

Rustock botnet responsible for 40 percent of spam Posted: 24 Aug 2010 09:00 AM PDT More than 40 percent of the world's spam is coming from a single network of computers that computer security experts continue to battle, according to new statistics from Symantec's MessageLabs' division.

Worried About ID Theft? Join the Club Posted: 24 Aug 2010 09:00 AM PDT Nearly two-thirds of Americans are concerned that information about their bank accounts, credit cards and identity may be stolen from their computers, according to a survey released today by a provider of identity theft protection services.

Rustock botnet ditches encryption to ramp spam Posted: 24 Aug 2010 09:00 AM PDT The Rustock mega-botnet appears to have ditched the experimental use of TLS (transport layer security) to obscure its activity, Symantec has reported.

Foursquare Privacy Basics: 5 Tips to 'Secure' Your Check-Ins Posted: 24 Aug 2010 09:00 AM PDT It's hardly practical to believe there are "right" and "wrong" ways to employ social networking services like Twitter or Facebook. However, there are "smart" and/or "safe" methods of use, especially for location-based services (LBS) that identify your whereabouts at a given time, like popular social network/LBS Foursquare.

Malicious Spam Exploits Fake Celebrity Deaths Posted: 24 Aug 2010 09:00 AM PDT Miley Cyrus is fine. Beyoncé did not perish in a plane crash. Brad Pitt did not meet an untimely demise. Everyone take a deep breath and--whatever you do--do NOT click on any file or link that arrives as a part of a sensational e-mail declaring a celebrity death.

Hackers bait Zeus botnet trap with dead celeb tales Posted: 24 Aug 2010 09:00 AM PDT Spam messages touting fictional tales of celebrity deaths are prompting users to open attachments that are adding their machines to the Zeus botnet.

Free tool from Team Cymru aims to help fight malware Posted: 24 Aug 2010 09:00 AM PDT The non-profit, Chicago-based internet security research firm Team Cymru (pronounced 'kum-ree') will release a new tool next month that it hopes will be a game changer in the fight against world-wide cyber crime.

Registry operator Afilias embraces DNS security Posted: 23 Aug 2010 09:00 AM PDT Afilias, which operates .info and more than a dozen other Web site extensions, will announce on Monday plans to deploy an emerging standard known as DNSSEC that adds a layer of encryption to the Internet's Domain Name System.

Newest E-mail Scams: Could They Fool You? Posted: 23 Aug 2010 09:00 AM PDT Think only the pathetically credulous and the uneducated fall victim to outrageous e-mail scams? Don't believe it.

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