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- ChetWisniewski: Microsoft wasn't the only one to release patches on Valentine's. Adobe Shockwave and Oracle Java get critical fixes http://t.co/S26DjIl7about 2 hours ago
- SophosLabs: Warning - Whitney Houston autopsy video links on Facebook aren’t what they seem http://t.co/aLG1e7vY tip @techmemeabout 8 hours ago
- SophosLabs: Who has better privacy laws: USA or European Union? http://t.co/rQUnw2kW (via @mooseabyte)about 9 hours ago
- gcluley: Warning: Whitney Houston autopsy video links on Facebook aren’t what they seem http://t.co/sg98h50Fabout 9 hours ago
- SophosLabs: iPhone 5 tester SMS text scam hits cellphones http://t.co/0orOOGG7about 12 hours ago
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Anonymous and LulzSec trawl Google Code search for security holes
A new report suggests that Google's Code Search is being used by groups such as LulzSec and Anonymous to find passwords and other private data, gain access to secure networks and decide who their next victim should be.
Hide and seek with website injections
Step into the shoes of a site administrators attempting to check if their sites have been hacked or not, by taking a look at a couple of recent attacks against websites.
Personal data of 65,000 FoxyBingo players sold for cash
A former gambling industry worker who sold personal data relating to over 65,000 online bingo players has been found guilty under the Data Protection Act.
Steam goes public on data breach - but will it delay the launch of Skyrim?
Steam, the online empire of computer game behemoth Valve Corporation, has issued details of the hack it suffered last weekend.
If you're a Steam user, find out what you should be doing next...
11/11/11 - time to make a Nerd New Year's resolution
11/11/11 is Armistice Day. Lest we forget.
It's also been dubbed "Nerd New Year."
So why not make a Nerd New Year's Resolution?
FBI's 'Operation Ghost Click' takes out operators of DNS Changer malware network
The FBI is cock-a-hoop today, having just announced the bust of six Estonians for malware-related cybercrimes.
The case goes back to 2007, with the investigation itself apparently having taken two years.
Adobe says goodbye to Flash for mobile platforms
Adobe's decision to cease development of Flash Player for mobile platform removes a significant potential malware infection mechanism, primarily for Android as it is the most common mobile operating system supporting it.
DARPA pleads with hackers for help in cyberspace war
In a first-ever conference, officials warned that bloated security software is no match for lean, nimble malware as the country battles unnamed enemies.
Apple lets security researcher into App Store, then throws toys out of cot
Security researcher Charlie Miller recently published a YouTube video in which he shows, in his own words, how to break "the App Store [anti-malware] model using a flaw in the iOS code signing enforcement mechanism."
Apple wasn't best pleased!
Hoax! Little boy needs 100 Facebook shares for a heart transplant
A new hoax is spreading between Facebook users, in the mistaken belief that sharing a picture of a sick boy in intensive care will grant him a heart transplant.
Hackers could throw open prison doors, research shows
Research presented at the Hacker Halted conference in Miami late last month showed how hackers could take control of industrial control systems used in prisons.
Apple lets malware into App Store
A security hole in iOS, the operating system that powers iPhones and iPads, has allowed hacker Charlie Miller to defeat Apple’s famously discerning App Store review process.
Anonymous takes down El Salvadoran sites
Anonymous launched DDoS attacks against El Salvador's government, forcing several websites to be temporarily taken offline.
Adidas tripped up by cyber attack and takes down sites
The popular sportswear manufacturer Adidas has suffered a "sophisticated, criminal cyber attack" made against a number of its sites.
Not such a nice hack, Nice Pack
Take a closer look at one of the nasty JavaScript threats that we have seen injected into thousands of legitimate web sites recently, for the purpose of infecting users with malware.
Research finds that privacy tools don’t work
Users can neither understand nor configure tools which claim to improve their privacy, according to new research from Carnegie Mellon. Is there any way we can achieve online privacy?
Randomness in cryptography - the devil's in the details
Kiwicon opened with a software engineering talk which was intensely focused - a case study of a single-line bug in a single source file in a single module in a 70MBbyte programming language distro.
Paul Ducklin reports from Wellington, New Zealand.
Fresh Phish disguised as a PayPal Urgent Account Review Notification
A wave of phishing emails targeting users of PayPal has been hitting mailboxes this weekend preying on your fear that someone has compromised your account.
Naked Security celebrates first birthday by supporting Movember
First, happy birthday to us. Naked Security is one year old.To celebrate our birthday, we have convinced writer Graham Cluley to grow a wonderful bushy moooouuuuustash in aid of in aid of Movember..
Hackers would never be hired by security vendors....right?
Customers build a relationship based on trust with security vendors. After all, customers who buy security solutions like anti-virus or anti-spam grant security companies access to update computers and devices. Question is should security companies open their doors to people known to have dabbled in grey and black-hat hacking?
