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Anonymous Member Plans Open Source Malware, Automated Tools

Businesses often time big product announcements just before a big technology trade show, so why should hacktivist collective Anonymous be any different?A few days...

Iran Rips-and-Replaces Centrifuges Post-Stuxnet

A new report suggests Iran's nuclear program has not recovered from the Stuxnet worm as previously believed. It appears Iran is still replacing thousands...

Game in App Store Stealing Customer Apple ID

Customers are claiming an app downloaded from Apple's App Store was using their login credentials to make illicit purchases.Customers complained their Apple IDs and...

Spammers Use Google Docs for Fake Surveys

Spammers have always been creative, coming up with new techniques, jumping on breaking news, and adopting the latest technology, all in the name of...

Mozilla Patch Firefox to Fix Mac OS X Lion Bug

Mozilla will be updating its Firefox Web browser to address a bug in the new Mac OS X Lion operating system coming soon from...

Apple’s Latest iOS Firmware Jailbroken By the Weekend

In case anyone wondered whether they would still be able to jailbreak their iOS devices after Apple patched the PDF flaw, the answer seems...

Mozilla BrowserID Handles Logins So Websites Don’t Have To

Mozilla released a new federated login mechanism to replace the login process on many Websites. Using the new systems, users won't have to remember...

Anti-Anonymous Vigilantism Goes Awry

Vigilante justice doesn't always work out well, and that's also true for the online world.As Anonymous and its prankster off-shoot LulzSec, merrily stomping through...

China Shut Down 1 Million Websites in 2010

The Chinese government has shut down more than one million Websites in 2010, according to a Chinese state-run agency.The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences...

Google+Facebook Extension Security Risk, Potential ‘Malware’

Even as users clamor to join the new Google+ social networking platform, not all of them are willing to leave behind Facebook, the other...