USA Today investigating hack attack
News Newspaper USA Today said on Friday that one or more online vandals had posted a fake front page and six phoney news stories on its Web site. The national newspaper has called in local law enforcement to help find out who defaced the site with fake...
[July 15, 2002, 8:59]
Microsoft to plug URL-spoofing hole
News Attackers, then, can use the area to the left of the @ symbol to create a fake Web address and fool victims into going to a different page or site. And on Wednesday, the company posted details of an alleged flaw that could let Web surfers be...
[January 30, 2004, 7:40]
Twitter hack targets Obama, Britney
News High-profile users of microblogging site Twitter have had their accounts compromised by a hacker, who made fake posts to their accounts. Celebrities including Barack Obama, Britney Spears and US newscaster Rick Sanchez had their Twitter accounts...
[January 6, 2009, 11:52]
PayPal alert! Beware the 'PaypaI' scam
News A scam artist last night created an exact replica of PayPal.com and used the fake site to attempt to pilfer user names and passwords from customers of the online payment system. X.com [PayPal's parent company] has notified law enforcement of the...
[July 24, 2000, 10:14]
Joining Google's journey through search
News One woman even thought the website was a fake construction that was part of a psychology experiment. A history of Google's search page Google's search page, with its abundance of empty white space and its almost boastful "I'm feeling lucky" button...
[May 30, 2008, 8:59]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I was particularly impressed by the fake front room demonstrating the Vivaldi kit - stuff that Harrod's will sell for £25k, thus giving the lie to the idea that WMC is just too expensive. It has to be said - the interface is slicker, the feature...
[October 29, 2004, 18:29]
Two-headed hard drive aims for 'perfect' Web security
News USA Today, for example, recently called in the police after discovering that vandals had posted several fake news stories on its Web front page. A Japanese start-up has come up with a mutant piece of hardware that it says may deliver "perfect...
[July 24, 2002, 11:51]
