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Has LulzSec member Kayla been arrested?

Two men were arrested yesterday by the Metropolitan Police Service’s Central e-Crime Unit in connection with cyber attacks executed by hacktivist groups Anonymous and …

Blackhat SEO spam is a global problem

If you have wondered whether to switch your go-to search engine for another – perhaps more localized? – in order to avoid the seemingly ubiquitous poisoned search …

Cyber crooks misusing audit tool to breach VoIP servers

Every now and then, cyber criminals misuse “good” software in order to do bad things, and the latest instance of this modus operandi has been spotted by NSS Labs …

Mozilla, Tor Project, Yahoo targeted through DigiNotar attack

Following the admission that the rogue SSL certificate that allowed attackers to impersonate Google was missed by auditors and that several dozen other certificates were …

Linux source code repository compromised

The Kernel.org website – home to the Linux project and the primary repository for the Linux kernel source code – sports a warning notifying its users of a security …

Google blacklisted 247 additional DigiNotar certificates?

New versions of Chrome and Firefox have been released today by Google and Mozilla due to the discovery of a rogue Google SSL certificate being abused in the wild. DigiNotar …

“Free iPads and laptops” Facebook scheme silently lurks

Two years have passed since Michael Jackson’s untimely death, and legions of his fans have, understandably, wished to commemorate his birthday, which falls on August 29. …

Apache fixes “Apache Killer” bug

The Apache Software Foundation has released version 2.2.20 of the Apache HTTP Server, which includes a fix for the DDoS bug that was spotted being exploited in the wild …

Akamai insider pleads guilty to foreign economic espionage

A former Akamai employee has been accused of and has pleaded guilty to having passed on confidential information regarding the company to a man he believed was a Israeli …

Rogue Google SSL certificate missed by auditors

VASCO Data Security International – the owner of DigiNotar, the Dutch Certificate Authority who issued the rogue SSL certificate for *.google.com domains that has …

Unredacted US diplomatic cables inadvertently leaked

Daniel Domscheit-Berg’s rationale behind his destruction of some 3,500+ unpublished files was that he had done it because Julian Assange and WikiLeaks could not …

Facebook pays bug hunters $40,000 in three weeks

The recently introduced Facebook bug bounty program has proved to be a great success, says Joe Sullivan, the company’s chief security officer. “We know and have …

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