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Facebook mobile users get password reset option

Facebook has announced it will be adding a very welcome security feature for the 250 million users accessing the social network through their mobile devices – the …

Malicious fake Firefox update spam run

Fake notices about a Firefox update are again targeting the browser’s users, says Sophos. A rather plain message supposedly coming from Mozilla instructs users to follow …

Big corporations “hacked” in Defcon social engineering contest

Most of the recent high-profile cyber attacks against corporations and government organizations have one thing in common – they all started with a successful social …

SMS spying Android Trojan triggered by keywords

Another week, another trojanized Android app. And, according to Trend Micro researchers, this one has a functionality that differentiates it from similar previous ones: it …

Anonymous dumps US law enforcement, Brazil’s Federal Police data, hacks Syrian MOD website

It has been another busy weekend for the AntiSec initiative. First Anonymous and LulzSec released a 10GB data dump consisting of the information pilfered from the servers of …

“Fidel Castro died” spam run leads to malware

Malware pushers have never balked from using news about a celebrity’s death to trick people into downloading malicious payloads. They also have no problem with faking …

Was your company one of the targets of Operation Shady RAT?

“I divide the entire set of Fortune Global 2000 firms into two categories: those that know they’ve been compromised and those that don’t yet know,” …

Spam king facing criminal charges for Facebook spamming

Sanford “Spamford” Wallace has long been a thorn in the side of social networks and has already been successfully sued in civil court by the FCC, MySpace and …

DHS equates Anonymous with APTs

Despite judging Anonymous’ tactics, techniques, procedures and tools to be rudimentary, the US Department of Homeland Security equates their successful deployment with …

Coding error reveals RSA attackers operated from China

A simple error message returned by a server to which a malware sample was trying to connect revealed to Dell SecureWorks researchers the origin of the RSA attack, says Joe …

Cisco warranty CDs take users to malware site

Cisco has issued a warning about information packet and warranty CDs shipped to its own customers between December 2010 and August 2011, saying that they contain a reference …

“You look like you lost weight” Twitter scam

Direct Messages saying “You look like you lost weight in this video” are the latest approach used by cyber crooks to harvest Twitter login credentials, warns …

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