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		<title>Social Networking Apps May Have Trojans</title>
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If you have any social networking sites now, better be wary of apps or widgets that may have trojan viruses running in the background. According to researchers at Finjan, cyberattackers are now going to social networking sites such as Facebook and Myspace to get more victims.
â€œAttacks will become more sophisticated by combining several services in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When To Encrypt Data</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Andrea
There are so many choices on whether or not make use of SSL. This is not based on what is seen Â the audience Â web site though. There are good candidates for SSL-enabled web sites are as follows:

Social Security Numbers 
Patient Information 
Student Information 
Financial Information 
Personnel Records 
Secure User Names and Passwords for Authenticated [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://guidetowebsecurity.com/more-information/when-to-encrypt-data/</link>
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		<title>Top Anti-Virus and Spyware Software</title>
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Spybot Search &#038; Destroy
Spyware &#038; Adware for data corruption, personal profiling, hacker attacks, pop-up ads, spying, and identity theft.
Microsoft Windows Defender:
 Helps protect your computer against pop-ups, slow performance, and security threats caused by spyware and other unwanted software. It features Real-Time Protection that recommends actions against spyware when it is detected. 
Lavasoft’s Ad-Aware SE, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IsecPartners Molests Flash, Adobe in therapy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Researchers from Google and a well-known security firm have documented serious vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash content which leave tens of thousands of websites susceptible to attacks that steal the personal details of visitors. 
The security bugs reside in Flash applets, the ubiquitous building blocks for movies and graphics that animate sites across the web. Also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://guidetowebsecurity.com/news-and-updates/isecpartners-molests-flash-adobe-in-therapy/</link>
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		<title>Spyware—What is it?</title>
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Spyware is most often associated with software that displays advertisements (called adware) or software that tracks personal or sensitive information. It is a general term used to describe software that performs certain behaviors such as advertising, collecting personal information, or changing the configuration of your computer, generally without appropriately obtaining your consent first. There are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://guidetowebsecurity.com/spyware/spyware%e2%80%94what-is-it/</link>
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		<title>Security Essentials for Home Computing</title>
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If you subscribe to Cable or DSL broadband at home, then you are likely to be casually &#8220;attacked&#8221; by hackers up to three dozen times a day. Especially if you use Windows XP or other Windows operating systems, you are a prime target for savvy hackers who will exploit your fulltime Internet connection.
As good as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://guidetowebsecurity.com/essentials/security-essentials-for-home-computing/</link>
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		<title>Facebook Sues Canadian Porn Company Over Screen Scraping</title>
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&#8220;Facebook alleges that in June servers controlled by the defendants used automated scripts to make more than 200,000 requests for personal information stored on Facebook&#8217;s site. The allegations are contained in an amended lawsuit filed earlier this month in U.S. District Court in San Jose, California. 
The company first filed suit back in June, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://guidetowebsecurity.com/news-and-updates/facebook-sues-canadian-porn-company-over-screen-scraping/</link>
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		<title>IP Address is Public</title>
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Always bear in mind that your IP address is public, so that whenever you access the Internet, you are always heading for a security risk. An IP address that will identify your PC can be located whenever you access the Internet. If you are not protected, your IP address address can be used by others [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://guidetowebsecurity.com/security-updates/ip-address-is-public/</link>
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		<title>Writing Web Applications</title>
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Web application development is very different from other environments. Web browser and the nature of HTTP pose security pitfalls not found in traditional client-server applications. Web developers must know how web servers and browsers interact, the nature of Internet communications, and the attacks web applications undergo on the Internet. If you think your network is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://guidetowebsecurity.com/more-information/writing-web-applications/</link>
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		<title>Web Cache</title>
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Web caches can be deployed in a variety of ways. User agent caches, such as those in web browsers, are private caches, operating on behalf of a single user. Intermediaries can also implement shared caches that serve more than one person.Caching was originally designed to speed up content access and reduce the need for the [...]]]></description>
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