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Toy robots can guard your home

Worried about burglars ransacking your house? Buy yourself some toy robots! It is what Robert Oschler, a Florida-based programmer, did. He bought a Rovio – a Wi-Fi …

Seven Deadliest Network Attacks

Part of Syngress' "The Seven Deadliest Attack Series", this book introduces the reader to the anatomy of attacks aimed at networks: DoS, MiTM, war dialing, penetration …

Microsoft Kinect may be eavesdropping on you

Released only five days ago, Microsoft’s Kinect seems poised to start a revolution in gaming. And if you are one of the lucky people who already managed to get their …

G20 summit related malicious spam campaign

Spammers are taking advantage of the oddest things. The lately detected spam messages concerning the upcoming G-20 summit in Korea is an example of such a specifically …

Microsoft offers Security Essentials via Windows Update, Trend Micro objects

Trend Micro is crying foul over the latest Microsoft move that sees its U.S. customers being offered to install the company’s free Security Essentials solution through …

Wikileaks soon to be joined by new whistleblower site?

The Wikileaks saga continues. After having been denied a Swedish residence and work permit, Julian Assange is considering asking for asylum in Switzerland – and moving …

ZeuS attackers set up honeypot for researchers

Every criminal that wants to keep being successful must know his opponents and hide details of his actions well, so it is no wonder that online criminals are resorting to …

GoDaddy-hosted websites injected with malicious code

Webmasters of websites hosted on GoDaddy have to check their source code yet again, as attackers using a number of different domains inject rogue code into their pages, which …

Myanmar cut off the Internet ahead of elections

The Southeast Asian country of Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) has been practically cut off the Internet as an extensive DDoS attack that started in late October has …

A closer look at Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition

The Home Edition of Sophos’ Anti-Virus for Mac is a full-featured and free anti-virus solution for home users. It stops, quarantines and cleans up threats that try to …

Sextortionist hacker caught by FBI

This has not been a good week for perverts on the Internet. First one gets arrested for hacking into e-mail and Facebook accounts of his female victims and sending their …

New IE 0-day exploit code found in the wild

Exploit code for a previously unknown Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability that would allow an attacker to perform a remote code execution and install malware on the …

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