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Three-quarters of phishing sites are built on hacked servers that have been tracked down using pre-programmed Google search terms, according to research from brand-protection firm MarkMonitor.

Among other activities, MarkMonitor tracks phishing attacks that target brand names.

Researchers compiled a list of 750 Google search terms that are used to track down websites likely to have easily exploitable vulnerabilities – mostly PHP-based sites.

The search terms return a list of sites likely to have particular vulnerabilities; the attackers then exploit the vulnerability, gain access to the site, and then use it to host malicious code or counterfeit web pages as part of the…

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In a move likely to appeal to the growing number of companies looking to add video their Websites, YouTube on Thursday rolled out a tool that can closely monitor how uploaded videos are used.

The YouTube Insight tool, available without charge, provides users with detailed statistics on how often their videos are viewed and where the users are located, said YouTube product manager Tracy Chan, in a blog post. In addition, the tool can measure how popular a video is in a specific region compared to all videos viewed there during a specific period of time.

Chan said that users can access…

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Sharp has launched a new mobile phone in Japan that features a small QWERTY keyboard and a tool allowing users to easily update their blogs.

The Sharp 922SH went on sale on Thursday and has a 3.5-inch display that folds out to the side so the phone can be used more like a miniature laptop than a traditional clamshell phone. The widescreen VGA display has a resolution of 854 pixel by 480 pixels.

The phone has an RSS reader and a PC-style web browser in addition to one more adapted to mobile use.

There’s a three-row QWERTY keyboard above which sit hot keys…

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Apple’s MacBook Air was hacked in just two minutes at the CanSecWest security conference’s PWN 2 OWN hacking contest, with former National Security Agency employee Charlie Miller walking away with a $10,000 prize.

Show organizers also offered a Sony Vaio, Fujitsu U810 and the MacBook Airas prizes, saying that they could be won by anybody at the show who could find a way to hack into each of them and read the contents of a file on the system, using a previously undisclosed ‘0day’ attack.

Nobody was able to hack into the systems on the first day of the contest when contestants…

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USB flash drives are NAND-type flash memory data storage devices integrated with a USB (universal serial bus) interface. They are typically small, lightweight, removable and rewritable. As of April 2007, memory capacities for USB Flash Drives currently are sold from 32 megabytes up. Capacity is limited only by current flash memory densities, although cost per megabyte may increase rapidly at higher capacities due to the expensive components. (USB Memory card readers are also available, whereby rather than being built-in, the memory is a removable Flash memory card housed in what is otherwise a regular USB flash drive, as described below.)

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A very easy way to connect two PCs is using an USB-USB cable. Connecting two PCs with a cable in this manner can transfer files from one PC to another, and even build a small network and share your Internet connection with a second PC.

How can I connect two PCs to each other with USB?

You need a specialized USB peripheral known as a USB bridge (sometimes called a USB to USB adapter) to do this. Without a USB bridge, connecting a USB port of a PC directly to another PC’s USB port can damage the computers.

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Suspicious port scanning that’s been tracked back to D-Link routers may mean a worm or bot is on the loose and infiltrating the popular brand’s devices using a three-year-old vulnerability, security researchers at Symantec said.

The security company issued a warning Monday night to customers of its DeepSight threat notification service saying that there were "reliable reports" of an in-the-wild worm or bot that was attacking, then installing itself, on D-Link routers. By today, however, Symantec had taken a step back.

"After looking into it further, we decided that that was a little misleading," said Oliver Friedrichs, a director of Symantec’s security…

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