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19-year-old wins UK Cyber Security Challenge
Computer sciences student Jonathan Millican from North Yorkshire is the winner of the latest edition of the UK Cyber Security Challenge, having successfully passed a number of …
DARPA director leaves the agency for Google
Regina Dugan, the first female director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), has been offered and has accepted a “senior executive position” …
NATO signs huge cyber defense contract
Rome-base Finmecchanica and the Northrup Grumman Corporation have been awarded a 58 million Euro ($76 million) deal for upgrading NATO’s cyber defense capabilities. The …
A new security strategy for Sony
2011 was a tough year for Sony. Having been attacked over 20 times by hacktivists going after its websites, the PlayStation Network, its customers’ and company …
Teen exploits three 0-days to hack Chrome, earns $60K from Google
The end of this year’s editions of the Pwn2Own and Pwnium contests has been marked by another Chrome hack, executed by a teenage security researcher that goes by the …
Facebook scam uses fake CAPTCHA to spread
In order for a Facebook survey scam to be successful, it has to make users do two things: propagate the scam further by “endorsing” it and complete at least one …
Anonymous continues defacing websites, releases Norton AV code
It is hard to predict whether this week’s arrest of six prominent LulzSec and AntiSec members will have a destructive enough effect on the loosely organized hacker …
IE 9 hacked at Pwn2Own, Google patches Chrome bugs
After the success they had with attacking Google’s Chrome browser, the team of vulnerability researchers from French firm VUPEN has also managed to hack …
Phishers exploit Facebook Timeline hate
Many Facebook users have still not reconciled themselves to the fact that the Timeline profile is here to stay, and this makes them prefect targets for scammers. According to …
Facebook cut down large-scale phishing with social authentication
Facebook, with its 845+ million users and some 1.1 billion daily login attempts, works on improving its authentication process all the time as many of these login attempts are …
Chrome already pwned twice at CanSecWest
The annual CanSecWest conference opened on Wednesday in Vancouver, and before the first session even started, Google’s Chrome was exploited successfully not once, but …
Anonymous takes down Vatican websites
The Italian offshoot of Anonymous has managed to take down for a few hours on Wednesday Vatican’s official website (vatican.va) and several more belonging to the …
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