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City of Heroes: Going Rogue zone tour video
By admin on August 5, 2010 | No Comments
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Rogue Anti-Virus Victims Rarely Fight Back
By admin on July 27, 2010 | No Comments
krebsonsecurity writes “One big reason why rogue anti-virus continues to make major bucks for scam artists: relatively few victims ever ask their credit card company or bank to reverse the charges for the phony security software — even when the victims don’t even receive the worthless software they were promised. I recently found several caches of data for affiliates of a rogue anti-virus distribution program, and the data showed that in one (more…)
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Windows 7 Can Create Rogue Wi-Fi Access Point
By admin on February 19, 2010 | No Comments
alphadogg writes “Windows 7 contains a ‘SoftAP’ feature, also called ‘virtual Wi-Fi,’ that allows a PC to function simultaneously as a Wi-Fi client and as an access point to which other Wi-Fi-capable devices can connect. The capability is handy when users want to share music and play interactive games. But it also can allow on-site visitors and parking-lot hackers to piggyback onto the user’s laptop and ‘ghost ride’ into a corporate network unnoticed.”
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Firefox 3.6 Locks Out Rogue Add-ons
By admin on November 18, 2009 | No Comments
CWmike writes “Mozilla will add a new lockdown feature to Firefox 3.6 that will prevent developers from sneaking add-ons into the program, the company said. Dubbed ‘component directory lockdown,’ the feature will bar access to Firefox’s ‘components’ directory, where most of the browser’s own code is stored. Mozilla has billed the move as a way to boost the stability of its browser. ‘We’re doing this for stability and user control [reasons],’ said (more…)


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