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Government telecommunication-spying malware opens backdoor
The Chaos Computer Club claims that a government-made “lawful interception” Trojan has abilities that exceed those allowed by the nation’s legislature and …
Photos: The look and feel of Virus Bulletin 2011
Help Net Security is attending the Virus Bulletin 2011 conference in Barcelona this week. Here’s an overview of the event in photos. DC Bob Burls of UK’s Police …
Picasa Web Albums and Yahoo! Groups are loved by spammers
Cyber crooks and spammers are always on the lookout for ways to reach and victimize the largest amount of individuals possible. And sometimes even Internet giants such as …
Law enforcement increasingly asking Internet companies to share data
The fact that one can find out a lot about a person’s interests, movements and opinions from their Facebook and Twitter accounts, Google searches and messages exchanged …
iPhone 5 spam emails lead to malware
Apple is expected to unveil the next iteration of its popular iPhone during a press event scheduled for tomorrow (October 4). As the excitement regarding the release of the …
HTC Android devices allow almost any app access to private data
It’s bad news all around for users of various HTC Android smartphones, as the private data collected by the logging tools recently introduced by the company is also …
QR codes used to infect Android users with malware
Most people already know what QR codes are: a new type of “barcode” that can be used for a variety of purposes – tracking, ticketing, labeling of products, …
Microsoft security solutions say Chrome is malware
Among the questions and comments on the Google Chrome support forums this morning are several complaints about Microsoft Security Essentials detecting Chrome as a Zbot variant …
Nearly 5 million military health care files stolen
Sensitive data about nearly 5 million patients has been compromised following the theft of backup tapes from an electronic healthcare app used in the military health system, …
25% of tested Google Chrome extensions allow data theft
27 of a 100 tested Google Chrome extensions have been found vulnerable to data (passwords, history, etc.) extraction attacks though specially crafted malicious websites or by …
Clever phisher almost tricks PhishTank
PhishTank is an anti-phishing site run by the OpenDNS team and offers the possibility of submitting suspected phishing sites for community-based review. In short, other users …
Thousands of sites compromised following hosting provider hack
California-based hosting provider InMotion has suffered a compromise that resulted in the defacement of thousands of home pages of websites hosted on their infrastructure, …
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