Worm Steals 45,000 Facebook Login Credentials, Infects Victims’ Friends
A worm previously used to commit financial fraud is now stealing Facebook login credentials, compromising at least 45,000 Facebook accounts with the goals of transmitting malicious links to victims’...
View ArticleProtesting SOPA: How to Make Your Voice Heard
This week, “call your Congressperson” is not just a cliché. It’s one of the most important things you can do to make your voice heard. As Ars readers know, Wikipedia, reddit, Craigslist, and others...
View ArticleMozilla Building Metro Version of Firefox for Windows 8
Mozilla developers are planning to build a dramatically different version of Firefox for Windows 8, a change necessitated by Microsoft’s use of the touch-friendly “Metro” user interface for PCs and...
View ArticleFuture Chrome Version May Choose Your Passwords, and Change Them When You’ve...
Google’s Chrome development team is working on a system to automatically generate passwords, which would help users secure their online identities with passwords that would be diversified across...
View ArticleGoogle Tricks Internet Explorer into Accepting Tracking Cookies, Microsoft...
Google was caught last week bypassing default privacy settings in the Safari browser in order to serve up tracking cookies. The company claimed the situation was an accident and limited only to the...
View ArticleGoogle’s New Privacy Policy: What Has Changed and What You Can Do About It
Today’s the day Google’s broad new privacy policy goes into effect. European regulators are claiming it violates data protection laws, but it’s here and it may be here to stay. There are some...
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