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US demands extradition of UK owner of link site

23-year-old UK citizen Richard O’Dwyer is currently fending off an extradition request by United States authorities. His crime? Setting up and operating a website that …

Chameleon-like fake AV delivered via clever social engineering

A very complex and likely very efficient fake AV spreading campaign has been spotted targeting Facebook users. It starts with users being apparently contacted by one of their …

Anonymous won’t publish stolen NATO documents

Following the arrest of 16 individuals in the U.S. and five in the U.K. and the Netherlands who are allegedly connected to the various cyber attacks organized by Anonymous, …

CCNP Security Secure 642-637 Official Cert Guide

The title of the book says it all - thick and all-encompassing, it covers the topics addressed in the exam CCNP Secure 642-637, but it should not be considered the only source …

DDoS bot masquerades as Java update

An especially virulent Trojan variant with DDoS capabilities has been spotted masquerading as a regular Java update and is being served both from legitimate and malicious …

Internet activist charged with hacking, theft of millions of digital documents

24-year-old Aaron Swartz, renowned programmer and Internet activist, stands accused of having stolen over 4 million digital documents from MIT’s JSTOR archive with the …

Google warns users about active malware infection

Google has begun notifying its users that a particular piece of malware is installed on their computers by showing a big yellow notification above their search results (click …

Santander customers targeted with clever phishing scam

Brazilian customers of Santander, one of the largest banks in the world, have been targeted by a very clever phishing scam that did not involve clicking on malicious links in …

A new approach to circumventing state-level Internet censorship

A group of researchers led by J. Alex Halderman, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan, have been working on a new …

U.S. military contractors targeted with malicious PDFs

The last few months have seen a lot of cyber attacks aimed at U.S. military contractors and they are still ongoing. F-Secure researchers have recently spotted an email …

LulzSec hacks News International servers, “kills” Murdoch

Hacktivist group LulzSec is back in business. It has added to the pressure put on Rupert Murdoch following the phone hacking scandal by hacking into News International …

Toshiba admits to hack, customer data loss

Toshiba has confirmed the claims of a hacker that managed to compromise one of its US sites and steal and publish part of a user database on pastebin.com. While the hacker …

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