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“Diablo 3 free download” scams target impatient users

Impatient gamers searching for the third installation of the popular Diablo role-playing game, hoping that has somehow been leaked ahead of its scheduled release on Tuesday, …

IT candidates should shift career perspectives

Recruiting in the technology sector is strong, despite weaknesses and structural changes the economy has experienced over the past several years. Enterprises seem to be …

Alternative app marketplaces prove profitable for cybercriminals

Avast researchers discovered a new batch of fake alternative marketplaces for downloading smartphone apps that trick users into sending premium rate SMS messages. Using a …

Secure online voting on iOS and Android

Scytl announced today the successful implementation of its online voting encryption technology for use on Android and iOS. By encrypting the ballot on the voter’s device …

Fuzz-o-Matic finds critical flaw in OpenSSL

Codenomicon helped identify and a critical flaw in widely-used encryption software. A flaw in the OpenSSL handling of CBC mode ciphersuites in TLS 1.1, 1.2 and DTLS can be …

Week in review: Massive carding ring bust, cyber attacks against US gas companies, and the creation and evolution of the superuser

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, podcasts and articles: Phishers mimic OpenID to steal credentials New spam email campaigns are …

Android Cookbook

“Android has gone from zero to one of the leading mobile platforms in a few years,” explains author Ian Darwin, who crowdsourced many of the 200 …

47 arrested in massive carding ring bust

47 individuals were arrested on Wednesday by the officers of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police following an investigation of a highly organized and disciplined criminal ring …

Fake HD repair tool targets Windows users

In the last year, ransomware infections have taken over from scareware as the cybercriminals’ favorite mode of squeezing money out of their victims, but that …

Another alleged TeamPoison hacker arrested

A 17-year-old male that is suspected to be “MLT”, a member and the unofficial spokesman of the notorious “TeamPoison” hacking gang, has been arrested …

Trojan posing as Flash Player for Android

Russian Android users are constantly targeted with Trojans posing as legitimate apps. Last month it was fake Instagram and Angry Birds Space apps, this time the lure is a …

FixMeStick: USB device for removing malware

FixMeStick has launched the first ever, consumer-ready USB device for removing viruses from infected PCs. The principles of the FixMeStick are not new to security IT …

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