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Week in review: Phishing, Kneber botnet and Microsoft vulnerabilities

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, videos, reviews and articles: Adobe PDF format riddled with exploitable features Adobe’s PDF …

Trend Micro protects Android devices

Trend Micro announced Mobile Security which protects digital files and secures banking transactions on Android devices by identifying and stopping online threats. Key Features …

Who profits on vulnerabilities for sale?

The number of software vulnerabilities discovered during 2010 may be smaller than that of those discovered the previous year, but they still bring money to its discoverers. …

50,000 stolen iTunes accounts for sale in China

Some 50,000 iTunes accounts – each associated with an active credit card and some guaranteed to work for at least 12 hours before getting deactivated – are …

Mac App Store already cracked

The Mac App Store debuted yesterday, and it seems that a flaw has been found that allows you to get paid applications for free. Logan of AppInstect published a tutorial on how …

My first status scam spreads virally on Facebook

Sophos is warning Facebook users about the latest survey scam which is spreading virally across the social network. Messages claiming to share the users’ first ever …

New line of Samsung DIY video security and surveillance systems

Samsung announced a new line of security products for home and SMB use. Available in 4-, 8-, or 16-Channels, the systems include a DVR with storage capacities ranging from 500 …

Microsoft to patch three vulnerabilities in Windows

Next week’s January’s security bulletins will contain two bulletins addressing three vulnerabilities in Windows. As usual, the bulletin release is scheduled for …

Mac OS X 10.6.6 updates security and introduces App Store

Apple today released Mac OS X 10.6.6 which which increases the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac. What’s also very important in this release is the …

MediaWiki 1.16.1 fixes clickjacking issue

MediaWiki released version 1.16.1 which is a security and maintenance release. Wikipedia user PleaseStand pointed out that MediaWiki has no protection against …

Estonia institutes volunteer cyber army

In 2007, when Estonia’s government, financial and media computer networks were attacked by unknown Russian hackers following the government’s decision of …

Samsung adds backup and security software to portable drives

Samsung announced two new portable drives and a new desktop drive, featuring distinctive styling as well as SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interfaces. The portable drives also offer up to …

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