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Facebook Scam: See who views your profile!

Published: January 24, 2012 Reading time: 1 min

Earlier today we have seen a new Facebook clickjacking scam which spreads quite fast. I KNOW WHEN YOU LOOK AT MY PROFILE USING THIS: http://bit.ly/ NEW! See who views your profile! www..com Do you want to know who is looking at your photos right now? Find out who looks at your profile the most and what they look at! or other variant even more provocative: CLICK HERE TO SEE WHO IS STALKING YOU: http://bit.ly NEW! See who views your profile! www..com Do you want to know who is looking at your photos right now? Find out who looks at your profile the most and what they look at! ...

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You dislike it too: Sore Throat [Part 2]

Published: January 18, 2012 Reading time: 3 min

As I told you in my other post, I’m dealing with a Sore Throat which is very annoying, I tried some simple stuff like gargle warm water and salt, drinking warm drinks, honey and lemon, lots of Vitamin C, Zinc and and and…. they did not work, my Sore Throat went one step ahead and reached a major infection level. I went to meet my doctor, after a check-up he wrote a long prescription for me: ...

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LA Time: Dropbox inventor determined to build the next Apple or Google

Published: January 17, 2012 Reading time: 1 min

Drew Houston’s wildly popular service allows people to access the latest version of all their digital stuff on any device no matter where they are. Every day 325 million files are saved on Dropbox. Drew Houston, 28, chief executive and co-founder of Dropbox, last fall pocketed $250 million from seven of Silicon Valley’s top venture capital firms. That eye-popping sum pegged the value of his company at $4 billion and his own net worth — at least on paper — at an estimated $600 million. (Matt Staver, Bloomberg / July 6, 2011) ...

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Hotmail phishing: Don't send us the wrong password or we'll suspend your account!

Published: January 14, 2012 Reading time: 2 min

SophosLabs: Have you been told to verify your Hotmail account? Did you receive a message saying that Hotmail’s email servers were congested, and so they were removing all unused accounts? If so, I hope you responded to the email with a roll of the eyes and a quick stab of the delete button. Because if you didn’t, you might have been at risk of having your login credentials stolen. ...

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You dislike it too: Sore Throat

Published: January 12, 2012 Reading time: 2 min

I bet you dislike it when your throat hurts, when you have that damned feeling in your skin, when your nose become a useless meat on your face, when you become slightly weak and when your eyes get tired soon, after-all when you realize you have got cold or flu… Yeah, above text is all about me and how I am now, finally those little virus(es) could welcome themselves to my body and have a party, those little unwanted guests! ...

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Chrome 17 enters beta, improves speed and security

Published: January 8, 2012 Reading time: 2 min

H-Security: Version 17 of Chrome has been released into the WebKit-based browser’s Beta channel. Its developers say that the new Chrome beta, version 17.0.963.26, is focused on improving two of the browser’s core principles: speed and security. To make Chrome “go even faster”, some web pages will start loading in the background before a user has even finished typing a URL into the Omnibox address and search bar. To reduce the time between a user pressing enter and the page being fully loaded, Chrome will pre-render some pages if the URL auto-completes to a site a user is likely to visit. According to Google Software Engineer Dominic Hamon, this will, in some cases, cause pages to appear “instantly”. ...

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Feeling good, abnormally

Published: January 2, 2012 Reading time: 2 min

Is not it great when you feel happy without any reason? When nothing happened and you smile…Yeah, I don’t know why but I’m feeling that way, My life is not ideal and majority of stuff around me is negative but still I’ve this strange happiness inside! No matter it came from but that’s very welcome and I like that. A few days ago I’ve been sitting in the bus coming back home and listening to beautiful voice of Kirsty Hawkshaw singing “A Million Star” and feeling warmth of sunshine on my face after a very cold snowy day and also having less stress in mind since some of the problems is unlocked (not solved yet, but in progress in a good way…), In that moment I really felt its time to smile and enjoy the life, life can be beautiful from time to time. ...

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Internet Explorer to upgrade automatically, unless you say no

Published: December 17, 2011 Reading time: 2 min

SophosLabs: Microsoft’s Ryan Gavin announced a new strategy to keep the web safe… Keep your Internet Explorer up to date. It is great news for Windows users who don’t appreciate the importance of staying up to date. Microsoft has been struggling with browser stragglers for years. They even ran their own campaign comparing IE 6 to spoiled milk including shameful infopr0n. Old versions of IE leave a considerable number of users vulnerable to old exploits, or in their parlance easy targets. ...

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Adobe closes Acrobat and Reader security holes

Published: December 17, 2011 Reading time: 2 min

The H-Online: The first patches for the zero-day flaw in Adobe’s Acrobat and Reader applications, which the company confirmed was being exploited in the wild, have been released. The initial problem was caused by a memory corruption when processing Universal 3D (U3D) files, which could allow attackers to potentially take control of an affected system. The patches released also address a newly revealed critical flaw (CVE-2011-4369) which can cause memory corruption when processing Product Representation Compact (PRC) 3D files. ...

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Visa looks into Eastern European security breach

Published: December 17, 2011 Reading time: 3 min

SophosLabs: Visa is investigating a potential security breach that may have compromised payment cards of Eastern Europeans. Although Visa hasn’t disclosed which countries were hit, the Romanian state-owned CEC Bank has blocked and reissued 17,000 cards on suspicion that they had been compromised. CEC Bank said in a statement that “a number” of cards issued by banks both in Romania and abroad might have been compromised via an international database. ...

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One is bad and everyone else good or its likewise?

Published: December 10, 2011 Reading time: 2 min

There are so many groups of people in world, we all know that, So many different group and kind of people, we can group them with different factors, with their born location, with their skin color, with their hair color, with eyes color, being left hand or right hand, with their political view, with their religious view and believes, with their education levels, with their languages, with their music tastes and… ...

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Come join my forum

Published: December 9, 2011 Reading time: 1 min

Hi Folks! I would like to invite you to join my forum, its a small forum for now but by the time it will get better, feel free to join and express yourself in whatever you like, feel free to post whatever you like except advertisement, Thanks! 🙂 forum.omid.dev Thank you for joining in advance -Omid

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