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Proof-of-concept Android app reveals platform’s security bug

Angry Birds is an extremely popular mobile game that can be played on Apple, Android and Nokia mobile devices – indeed, it has been downloaded by millions of users. So, …

Will ears replace fingerprints as a form of ID?

Fingerprint checks and iris scans may be the most popular ways of biometric identification for the time being, but it looks like they might soon be joined – if not …

Lethic Trojan is back, uses same stolen digital certificate as Stuxnet

Some two months ago, the world found out about the Stuxnet – the worm that used the Windows .lnk file vulnerability in order to spread through removable drives of …

Palin e-mail hacker sentenced

After a number of delays, former University of Tennessee student David Kernel has finally received his sentence for compromising Sarah Palin’s Yahoo! e-mail account back …

Millions stolen in ATM fraud

Two executives of an automated teller machine dispensing company are currently waiting to be sentenced in a case of fraud perpetrated against Connecticut’s Domestic …

Facebook “free plane tickets” scams

Don’t be tricked by the impossibly good offers that have lately been popping up on Facebook profiles. There are no free ticket giveaways – there’s only the …

Go Daddy offers vulnerability site scanning tool

A lot of the news concerning Internet domain registrar and Web hosting company Go Daddy that we covered lately had to do with compromised sites hosted on its servers. And …

Facebook bug compromises top pages

A customer of Sendible, an online marketing service for promoting and tracking brands through the use of social media, e-mail and SMS messaging, has inadvertently discovered a …

Facebook “love button” app links to malware

If you spot a Facebook post or a message that advertises an application that will let you “unlock” a “love” (

A closer look at NetShade for Mac

NetShade (v.4.0.1) makes your presence on the web anonymous by routing your connection through a proxy server and acting as the middle-man in your connection. The proxy server …

Orkut users under phishing attack

Orkut users have lately been targeted with a clever scheme that redirects them to phishing pages without them having to do anything except visit a compromised account. Using …

Hotmail gets full-session HTTPS

Firesheep‘s developers can be satisfied. Not only has Microsoft started contemplating SSL for Bing but – as of yesterday – has provided its Hotmail users …

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