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Personal information of 3.5 million poker players leaked

Personal data of some 3.5 million users of the Ultimate Bet poker website have been made available for download on an online forum for a short time. The data included the …

Fake Verizon notification carries malware

A sneaky spam email campaign aiming to infect users with a banking Trojan is currently underway and is targeting mobile carrier customers, warns Microsoft. The email purports …

Fraudsters beat two-factor authentication, steal $45k

It seems that two-factor authentication solutions that deliver verification codes to mobile phones are not as foolproof as one might think – a lesson that an Australian …

Facebook bug allows users to access private photos

A bug tied to Facebook’s “Report/Block” process can be misused to access uploaded photos of people who have chosen not to share them publicly, says a poster …

Download.com bundles Nmap with malware

“Hi Folks. I’ve just discovered that C|Net’s Download.Com site has started wrapping their Nmap downloads (as well as other free software like VLC) in a …

Only U.S. customers targeted with Carrier IQ?

Carriers are yet to be affected greatly by the revelations made by researcher Trevor Eckhart. Even though most mobile phone manufacturers have denied installing the Carrier IQ …

Beware of fake Amazon account confirmation emails

Amazon users are being targeted again with spam emails purporting to come from the “Amazon Team” and asking users to “confirm” their accounts, warns …

Microsoft spam-detecting algorithm helps with HIV research

When the first computer viruses popped up, their behavior was so similar to that of their biological counterparts that security researchers simply chose to appropriate the …

Yahoo Messenger bug allows status message hijacking

Yahoo Messenger users are in danger of getting their status messages changed without their consent and finding themselves inadvertently peddling malware. The zero-day exploit …

Cutwail botnet’s various spam campaigns

The bot herders behind Cutwail – one of the oldest botnet that’s still alive and kicking and numbers over 1,5 million bots – have recently been spotted using …

Norwich Airport database breached

A hacker that goes by the handle “Kahuna” has apparently broken into the systems of the Norwich Airport and has harvested and leaked personal information contained …

AT&T and Sprint acknowledge use of Carrier IQ

The Carrier IQ issue continues to unravel as phone manufacturers and some carriers fall over each other in the rush to distance themselves from any involvement with it and the …

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