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Facebook “Free Mobile Recharge” scam hijacks accounts

A phishing and survey scam rolled into one is currently targeting Facebook users and ends up hijacking their accounts and making it difficult for users to get them back, warns …

iPhone: The Missing Manual

With the iOS5 software and the new iPhone 4S device, Apple has another world-class hit on its hands. This pocket computer comes with everything—cellphone, iPod, Internet, …

HiDrive Free: New cloud service

HiDrive Free, a cloud-based service from STRATO, launched in the U.S. offering users 5GB of free online storage. With HiDrive Free, users can back up their data at a central …

Fake browser plug-in “shares” Facebook scam

Facebook survey scams mostly follow the same pattern: they lure users in with offers of watching a funny/amazing/adult-themed video, directly ask them to “share” …

Hackers steal $6.7 million in bank cyber heist

A perfectly planned and coordinated bank robbery was executed during the first three days of the new year in Johannesburg, and left the targeted South African Postbank – …

Threat incidents and security wins in 2011

Having spent much of the year battling data breaches that led to huge information and financial loss, the security industry was likely relieved to see 2011 come to a close. In …

Arachni: Web application security scanner framework

Arachni is an open source Web application security scanner framework, a modular framework that allows fast, accurate and flexible vulnerability assessment. In order to …

Brazen Brazilian hackers opening cybercrime schools

Brazilian hackers are known for their preference for stealing and misusing phished banking credentials and credit card numbers, but also for their penchant to openly brag …

Astaro brings UTM to the cloud

Astaro announced the availability of version 8.3 of the Astaro Security Gateway (ASG). With the ability to launch the ASG in the Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud and connect to …

Identities of likely Koobface gang members revealed

It was a well-known fact in security circles that some researchers were involved for quite some time in an investigation aiming at revealing the identities of the individuals …

Security challenges for the finance sector

As the migration to Windows 7 is proving a catalyst to organizations, banks are stepping up to the challenge to protect themselves against malware attacks abusing admin …

PCI pitfalls for retailers

Businesses that process, transmit or store cardholder data must implement security controls as defined by the latest PCI DSS standard. The following are the nine common PCI …

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