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Should jailbreaking gaming consoles, mobile phones and tablets be legalized?

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Yesterday, US copyright regulators opened up the floodgates for a public hearing of proposals to change copyright law, including authorizing the cracking of tablets, DVDs, gaming consoles and mobile phones. Tell us what you think...

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Cyber romance scams cost US victims $50 million in 2011

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Who doesn't love a good romance story? Oh, probably those who have ended up losing out on a lot of money.

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Backups are good - but don't forget to check your backups work [VIDEO]

Backups are good - but don't forget to check your backups work [VIDEO]

The "Toy Story 2" movie was nearly lost forever because of failing backup software.

Watch the video to find out the story, and how the classic animated movie was recovered.

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Call of Duty Trojan horse creator ends up in jail, after drunken college raid

Call of Duty Trojan horse creator ends up in jail, after drunken college raid

A British man who spread a spyware Trojan horse posing as a patch for the popular video game "Call of Duty", has ended up with an 18 month jail sentence.

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Selena Gomez's Facebook account hacker jailed for one year

Selena Gomez's Facebook account hacker jailed for one year

After hacking into the Facebook account of Justin Bieber's girlfriend, and accessing private messages, a 21-year-old British man is jailed.

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SSCC 90 - A walk around Interop 2012 with John Shier

SSCC 90 - A walk around Interop 2012 with John Shier

This week's Chet Chat comes to you live from the show floor at Interop 2012. John Shier and Chet Wisniewski have some fun and share highlights from the expo hall.

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Technical paper - Fake anti-virus: The journey from Trojan to a persistent threat

Technical paper - Fake anti-virus: The journey from Trojan to a persistent threat

Fake anti-virus is one of the largest families of malware in recent history. In this technical paper, Jagadeesh Chandraiah takes a look at how scareware has evolved over the last three and a half years into what it is today.

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Free Sophos Anti-Virus app for your Android

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To help you better safeguard your Android phone and tablet, Sophos just published Sophos Mobile Security for Android in Google Play. Oh, and it's free!

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Fake anti-virus disguises used by Android malware

Fake anti-virus disguises used by Android malware

The Android malware threat is growing.

And it's no surprise to see similar social engineering tricks that have worked on other operating systems in the past also being used on the Android platform.

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Magic mirror on the wall, what's the best smartphone of all?

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Until last week, iPhone's Siri would respond to "What is the best smartphone?" with - gulp - iPhone's competitor Nokia Lumia 900. This "bug" has now been fixed by Apple, but Nokia are making sure everyone is aware that Apple is overriding the software.

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Global Payments breach continues to bewilder, accusations abound

Global Payments breach continues to bewilder, accusations abound

The fallout from the breach of payment card processor Global Payments continues to widen, yet more information does not bring more clarity. Banks are uncovering more fraud related to the incident, but information about the theft is not being released by Global Payments.

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Rihanna sex video trap used by Facebook scammers.. again

Rihanna sex video trap used by Facebook scammers.. again

You would think that if there had been a widespread scam on Facebook two months ago, that it wouldn't be capable of spreading using identical wording now, wouldn't you?

Sadly, it seems the answer is "no".

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Seeing ads on Wikipedia? You may have malware

Seeing ads on Wikipedia? You may have malware

Wikipedia warns its millions of users about how cybercriminals can inject adverts into webpages.

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Judge ordering blocks to Pirate Bay is corrupt, says Pirate Party founder

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The judge who ordered blocks to Pirate Bay sites is alleged to have 1) a history of handing down verdicts that violate free speech and 2) been making some cash on the side by teaching alongside the plaintiff in an anti-piracy course.

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The full AusCERT 2012 #sophospuzzle - cut, paste, solve, NERF!

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Here is the full text of the #sophospuzzle from this year's AusCERT T-shirt.

Cut, paste, solve and get in the running to win a NERF gun.

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Apple issues security updates for Mac OS X Leopard - to fight malware menace

Apple issues security updates for Mac OS X Leopard - to fight malware menace

Are you still running Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard?

If so, you have some very important critical security patches to install - helping to protect your Mac from malware threats.

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Bitcoin exchange gets attacked and loses cash...again!

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The Bitcoin exchange Bitcoinica took its servers offline after they discovered $90,000 USD worth of bitcoins was stolen from its systems. This is the second time this year Bitcoinica have been targeted.

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DHL malware campaign strikes again, designed to infect Windows PCs

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Received an email from DHL about a failed package delivery?

Be on your guard. Malware authors are up to their old tricks once more.

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Hidden camera: FBI seizes - and then returns - anonymizing email server [VIDEO]

Hidden camera: FBI seizes - and then returns - anonymizing email server after bomb threats [VIDEO]

The FBI, investigating bomb threats, seized the server of a group, known as May First/People Link (MF/PL), that offers encrypted data services to people fighting oppressive regimes. Four days later, they returned it. What is going on?

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