Microsoft To Introduce Web-Based Outlook; Brian Hall Comments
Microsoft Corp. will introduce a free and web-based email portal under the Outlook brand, Bloomberg reports. Microsoft’s Windows group general manager Brian Hall said Hotmail will likely be phased out in the next year. The web-based Outlook service will feature sorting of emails according to contacts, social media updates and newsletters. Hotmail users also have the [...]
LulzSec Releases Massive Data Dump, Shuts Down Thousands of Australian Sites
June 17, 2011 No CommentPrankster hacker group LulzSec has steered its Lulz Boat and quest for mischief toward “down under,” breaking into Australian domain registrar and web host Distribute.IT, and crippling access to thousands of websites, according to media reports. The Register reports that the among the Australian data dump were details from Australian universities and government departments, including [...]
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The FBI has launched an investigation into the claim that Chinese hackers breached hundreds of Gmail accounts via a phishing campaign, including those of senior government officials, according to media reports. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the United States was notified Wednesday about the compromise and is looking into the allegations, which Clinton called [...]
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A hacker in China gained access to hundreds of Gmail accounts, including those of senior U.S. government officials, military personnel, Chinese political activists and journalists, Google acknowledged yesterday. On its official blog, Google said it recently detected a campaign to collect user passwords, likely through phishing. The breach seemed to originate from Jinan, China, and [...]
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Hacker Poses as Bollywood Star, Tells Friends, Business Contacts She’s Pregnant
June 23, 2010 1 CommentAn Indian actress last week reported to Mumbai cyber crime investigators how a hacker broke into her Gmail account and while posing as her, had numerous online chats with her friends about being pregnant with a guy whose name she failed to remember. The plot was uncovered when the scammer began chatting to actress Meghna [...]
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Google is adding a new security feature to its GMail offerings that will warn users when there are suspicious account logins. The feature is currently being deployed for the Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers. Users will have the ability to track recent account activity and sign out remotely from GMail service. The bottom of the [...]
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Cyber Security is easily becoming the new buzzword of 2010. Lately everyone has been concerned with making their networks more secure. Along with the growing trend to optimizing platform security Google’s Gmail service has made a default switch to the https encryption. This annoucement comes just a few days after the Chinese censorship announcement. The [...]
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