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Microsoft Mistakenly Claims Google Home Page Infected With Blackhole
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2012-02-15
Microsoft quickly updated its security tools after users reported seeing warnings that Google's home page was infected with the Blackhole exploit kit.
Microsoft's
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Mozilla Closes Security Flaw in Firefox 10
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2012-02-12
Less than two weeks after releasing Firefox version 10, Mozilla has updated its popular Web browser to close a security flaw.
A critical security vulnerability has been fixed in Firefox
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Romney Most-Mentioned Politician in Spam Messages
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2012-02-09
Even spammers are following the United States presidential elections and have their favorites among the Republican candidates.
Bitdefender researchers analyzed 8 million pieces of
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Attackers Breached Foxconn, Dumped Data For Fun
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2012-02-08
A group of hackers appear to have breached and extracted information from Foxconn's network. Foxconn Electronics has not confirmed the breach.
Attackers breached Foxconn Electronics,
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Facebook Still Not Deleting Photos From CDN: Ars Technica
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2012-02-08
Almost three years after Facebook promised to look into why photos deleted by users were still accessible online, the photos are still available, reported Ars Technica.
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Apache, Apple, PHP Release Security Updates
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2012-02-04
The past few days has been filled with security patches and updates that may have slipped past IT administrators.
Apache released its HTTP Server 2.2.22 which included fixes to six
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Megaupload Users Gain Reprieve, EFF Working to Retrieve Data
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2012-02-01
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is working on a way to separate legitimate user data from illegal content that had been stored on Megaupload servers so that users can
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Romanian Police Arrest TinKode
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2012-02-01
Romanian police have arrested a man they believe is TinKode, who broke into Department of Defense Websites and other government agencies.
Razvan Manole Cermaianu, an IT student, is suspected of being
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HP TippingPoint Zero Day Initiative Modifies Pwn2Own Rules
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2012-01-24
HP's TippingPoint Zero Day Initiative unveiled a new format for its popular Pwn2Own contest at the upcoming CanSecWest conference with new prizes and scoring system.
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Apple Approves, Yanks Fake Camera+ App on App Store
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2012-01-23
Mobile device owners are encouraged to download apps from official sources, such as Apple's App Store. However, they should still exercise caution as malicious apps can still slip
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McAfee Predicts More Hacktivism in 2012
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2012-01-07
The hacktivist collective Anonymous will either reorgranize into a cohesive body or disband completely, McAfee researchers said in their security predictions for 2012.
Anonymous is a loosely
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Stratfor Victims Receiving Followup Messages From Attackers
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2012-01-06
The gang behind the attack on Stratfor over Christmas Eve is still making things difficult for the intelligence analysis firm by sending out malicious emails.
Claiming to
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Hackers' Threat to Publish Symantec Source Code Not a Reason to Worry
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2012-01-05
A group of hackers has claimed that it has stolen the source code to Symantec's flagship antivirus product, according to a Pastebin post.
This may just be an
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Facebook's Timeline Users Targeted by Scammers
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2012-01-04
Facebook users who checked out Timeline and decided they hate it are being targeted by scammers on the social networking site, according to a report on Inside Facebook.
Searching for
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Specialforces.com Data Dump the Latest in LulzXmas
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-12-29
A data dump containing information stolen several months ago from SpecialForces.com included user passwords and credit card numbers.
The attackers stole usernames, passwords and
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