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Panda Labs' Technical Director, Luis Corrons, has discovered a Russian-owned website that offers to hack any Facebook account for $100. The website is registered to a Moscow address, being offered with English content to appeal to a broader audience. At a first look, the website seems to be a legitimate servic... |
19 September 2009
06:53 GMT |
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PINsAnother app that stood the test of time and continues to do its job regardless of the Windows operating system it runs on is PINs. Mirek Wojtowicz is again responsible for it. The application is designed to offer you secure storage of sensitive data such as passwords, accounts, addresses, PIN numbers, etc.PINs is... |
20 March 2009
13:21 GMT |
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Public persons are surely among the people who care the most about their reputation. This is only understandable after all, since, if a celebrity's private account on a social network is hacked, then the one behind it can make quite a few easy bucks by blackmail. This was precisely the case with the person who b... |
5 September 2008
06:50 GMT |
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There are a lot of users out there who registered for certain Gmail accounts using dots in the usernames. Somehow like softpedia.news at gmail.com, just because the user who registered it thought it looks prettier than softpedianews at gmail.com. However, an interesting aspect of the Google mail service, revealed by ... |
16 May 2008
04:25 GMT |
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The Enturbulation website is known for its continuous criticism against the Church of Scientology and Scientology believers. The website receives its earnings from user donations and advertisements placed on their site. Until recently, this Scientology-criticizing website has been a user of Google AdSense but, accord... |
15 May 2008
04:17 GMT |
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Google and a few other web companies allow their registered members to access all the services built by them with the same username and password. Some people think this is quite a useful function while other raise concerns over the privacy of the account. A WebmasterWorld user nicknamed MyNewPC said that using the sa... |
23 April 2008
18:06 GMT |
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Sure, Macs are pretty much virus-free (plus they come as a whole, seldom crash and they look just great), but a glitch is something no computer or electronic device can escape from. Apple itself has recently confirmed "a security glitch that, in many situations, will let someone with physical access to a Macintosh co... |
29 February 2008
03:08 GMT |
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An Internet Service Provider from Kuwait delivered one of the most frustrating experiences a user can have. Abdulaziz Al-Shalabi was unable to log into his Gmail account, but at the same time he was free to log into other 30 or so people's accounts and browse through their inboxes.He couldn't help but think... |
22 February 2008
19:41 GMT |
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Blogs were inaccessible for about 5 to 15 minutes in the 4 days that have passed since Saturday, when the attack started. Automattic, the company that maintains WordPress.com, was knee deep in the work laid before them by hackers all throughout this period and managed to restore most of the service's original fu... |
20 February 2008
10:53 GMT |
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A couple of months ago, Bungie Games was awarding a Halo 3 Recon Armor to one Halo 3 gamer who, incredibly managed to kill himself in a number of ways. That very same gamer has since reported not one, not two, but a total of three hijacks of his LIVE account, with the most recent occurring on December 29th, when he s... |
10 January 2008
14:06 GMT |
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People search is a big red danger area for any sites attempting to add it to their requisitory, even as an idea. Many have tried to do this and still try (take Facebook for example, or any other social networking site that deals with a lot of personal information), but that always lead to a lot of talk about privacy ... |
8 January 2008
08:36 GMT |
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If you consider yourself to be up to date with the latest gossip from Hollywood and not only, you must have heard of Perez Hilton and / or admire his work. Characterized by some as a blogging bitch-genius, his page is the one to check out for all sorts of embarrassing videos or pictures. And all this via YouTube, the... |
20 December 2007
14:00 GMT |
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I've just praised earlier in the week the GMail team for doing such a good job with the updates that would catch up soon with Yahoo!'s Mail at the rates things were going. Well, what do you know, they've just started goofing up on the PR side of it.Reasons for the accounts being suspended have not been... |
6 December 2007
13:31 GMT |
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We all know that some Internet users are addicted to their favorite web service but this is way too much. Listen to this: a college student from Michigan got banned on Facebook and decided to write to Michael Arrington of TechCrunch to help him receive his account banned. But look what he wrote: "I just can't be... |
14 November 2007
04:38 GMT |
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Although this piece of news isn't quite fresh, it's very important for everyone to be aware about the issues surrounding Xbox Live today. According to a piece up on QJ.net, users of Microsoft's service are warned "about possible phishing for Xbox Live account login information," as Evil Avatar points o... |
11 September 2007
02:55 GMT |
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I believe I'm not the only one who received a weird message when trying to login into the Yahoo account. But when it says that my account was blocked for security reasons, it might be something serious. You should know that if your account is suspended for this reason, you're not able to use any Yahoo produ... |
6 September 2007
08:40 GMT |
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Security on the Internet is just a dream and you know it. If a hacker wants to do something, he or she can do it. If one system is secure and cannot be hacked, then they will steal the data of someone who has access to it, and then, do the "work" from the inside. Do you think you're safe just because some sites ... |
3 September 2007
03:48 GMT |
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Some of the AdWords users were quite shocked a few days ago when they noticed their accounts were canceled without any notification. As you know, you're not able to do many things while your account is canceled including campaign editing or other similar actions. According to several users from the WebmasterWorl... |
18 July 2007
04:50 GMT |
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The AdWords advertising platform receives a new feature that was available as a beta testing since July 2006 and provides valuable information about your account. Basically, the Account Snapshot page is, as its name says, a snapshot of your entire account, providing useful information about your account such as campa... |
8 June 2007
04:31 GMT |
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Google announced today a new feature for all the AdSense registered members that will allow them to upgrade the account and change their private information. Basically, the AdSense login will be updated to a Google account and you'll be able to use the same information entered for other products designed by the ... |
2 May 2007
03:05 GMT |
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Gmail, the mail solution powered by Google, is again the subject of numerous complaints filed by the users after the search giant removed numerous Gmail accounts. According to a message posted by the Gmail Guide on a Google Groups discussion, the company accidentally removed several accounts when the employees tried... |
20 April 2007
05:59 GMT |
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"Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up." (The Bible) Relationship between people is most of the time a good thing. People get together to have fun... |
11 April 2007
16:52 GMT |
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YouTube is more than a video service because it owns an incredible community of members with millions of clips uploaded every day. Recently, the Google product announced its decision to hire one of the most active members of the community, making him YouTube's Community Advocate. Recently, there were several cas... |
10 April 2007
08:38 GMT |
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It's said nothing is certain but death and taxes. Those who hope to cheat death either end up in alien spaceships or hell (just kidding...), while many (well..., few actually) of those who try to trick the IRS end up in jail. I'm not much into occultism (not these days, anyway), so I won't say anything... |
3 April 2007
11:06 GMT |
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Three of the most popular e-mail providers on the Internet recorded a massive hit into their security system after it was reported that hundreds of their accounts were published on a Los Angeles website. All the victims were publishing online interviews and articles on several Internet pages owned by Splash Magazines... |
27 March 2007
08:52 GMT |
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