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New Zeus-based variant targets banks around the world

Another Zeus-based offering has been unearthed by Trend Micros researchers, and by the look of things, this one seems to be better crafted than the recently discovered Ice IX …

The Register, The Daily Telegraph, UPS hit by DNS hack

Readers of British technology news and opinion website The Register got an unwelcome surprise when they tried to access it yesterday: But, what at first looked like a …

How the unredacted US cables were revealed to the public

It seems that the cat is out of the box. Only a few days after former WikiLeaks staffer Herbert Snorrason refused to say who inadvertently made public the password for the …

Alleged Anonymous members arrested in Ireland

Two more alleged Anonymous members have been arrested yesterday in Ireland in connection to the January defacement of the website belonging to the Fine Gael political party. …

Morto worm surprises again

As it turns out, the recently discovered Morto worm that has been spreading in the wild has more than one never-before-seen characteristic. Not only does it spread by using …

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. …

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