Apple has released Safari 4.0.5 to address 16 vulnerabilities, all but one of which were newly disclosed. New versions for Windows and the Mac are available.
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Facebook may not be quite ready to commit to location-based services (at least not until April), but Twitter is making no bones about jumping onto the super-hot trend.
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This is a story about a friend whose webmail account got hijacked by a scammer, and the long ordeal that my friend had go through before she regained control of her account–and how she regained her account only after the scammer had used it to extract more than a thousand dollars from one of my friend’s friends.
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Paypal is recommending that users install the Iconix eMail ID software as a defense against phishing attempts, and a tool to allow users to understand if a PayPal email is authentic or not.
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LimeWire, one of the biggest peer-to-peer networks (and a traditional home for malware) has announced that the company is integrating AVG anti-malware protection into its LimeWire Pro service.
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Paraben Corporation has begun shipping a so-called “porn detection stick,” a USB drive with embedded software that intelligently combs through a PC, looking for illicit JPEGs.
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There have been a few free SMS apps for the iPhone to appear that use data networks to send free SMS messages, but none of them have quite the polish of TextPlus, from Gogii.
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