Headlines for December 16th, 2009

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Google Doodle poisoned by scareware slingers – "Scareware slingers have begun hiding links to rogue anti-virus sites behind Google Doodle.
The development leaves surfers who click on Google's picture of the day at risk of being exposed to sites that run fake security scans, before strong-arming users into buying worthless software in order to clean-up non-existent [...]

Headlines for August 10th, 2009

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3 Reasons Why The Bing-Yahoo Deal Is A Good One – Although the proposed union of Microsoft's Bing and Yahoo's search engines has led Congress to say that the deal warrants "careful scrutiny," such a merger of search giants could actually benefit the public.
Has Twitter Recovered from the DDoS Attack? – "Now that the weekend [...]

Headlines for February 10th, 2009 through February 13th, 2009

Posted by [modern media mom] in Latest News, Links & Resources on 14. Feb, 2009 | 0 Comments

50 Best Firefox extensions for Powerful Browsing – Firefox is definitely the browser that I recommend. It is powerful on its own. But it also has many helpful extensions. (and some are just flat out cool)
StumbleUpon Hits 7 Million Users, Quietly 50% Bigger Than Twitter – I love StumbleUpon – it's a great way to [...]

Headlines for February 12th, 2009

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Obama’s BlackBerry brings personal safety risks

Interesting look at the various ways that Obama’s BlackBerry will cause headaches for his security teams.

Cybercriminals Launch Attacks Through Digg

“The Digg attacks download the MS Antispyware 2009 scareware package to victims’ PCs. This pretends to scan the PCs, then tells victims the PCs are infected with malware. It then asks [...]