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A wrong view of Google's Street View

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The Federal Communications Commission concluded that Google collected a wide range of personal data during the Street View project. It seems that this is due to a Google engineer who wrote a specific computer program to collect personal data from people's home wireless networks.

Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA)

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Now it's CISPA again, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. And this time it will succeed. Unfortunately.

Mass-Media: Pros and Cons WikiLeaks and Julian Assange

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WikiLeaks logoWikiLeaks is an international new media non-profit organization that publishes submissions of otherwise unavailable documents from anonymous news sources and leaks. Its website, launched in 2006, is run by The Sunshine Press.

Routes of infection with spyware

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Windows ActiveX security warning (malware)Malicious websites attempt to install spyware on readers' computers.

Cross-site request forgery

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Cross-site request forgery, also known as one click attack or session riding and abbreviated as CSRF (Sea-Surf) or XSRF, is a kind of malicious exploit of websites. Although this type of attack has similarities to cross-site scripting (XSS), cross-site scripting requires the attacker to inject unauthorized code into a website, while cross-site request forgery merely transmits unauthorized commands from a user the website trusts.

Cross-site cooking

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Cross-site cookingIn cross-site cooking, the attacker exploits a browser bug to send an invalid cookie to a server.

Cross-site cooking is a type of browser exploit which allows a site attacker to set a cookie for a browser into the cookie domain of another site server.

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