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OpenLeaks calls on hackers to attack its test site

Since Daniel Domscheit-Berg’s public disagreement with Julian Assange and his decamping from WikiLeaks, there hasn’t been a secure place for whistleblowers to drop …

Gordon Ramsey says father in law hacked into his email

UK celebrity chef Gordon Ramsey claims that Chris Hutcheson – the father of his wife and former chief executive of his global restaurant business – has hacked into …

Sony PSN offers identity protection to users

Almost four months after admitting that its PlayStation Network servers have been breached and the personal information of 70 million users has been compromised, Sony has …

Hackers raid mass killer’s email accounts for info

After the recent hacking of Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik Behring’s Twitter account, it seems that the same group of hackers has also decided to compromise two of …

4,300+ compromised WordPress blogs poison Google Image Search results

Google Image Search has for a while now been littered with images that lure users to compromised sites that serve as doorway pages to other malicious sites. Part of the …

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,” …

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