spyware
Monday review - the hot 20 stories of the week
Catch up with all the security news from the last seven days - it's weekly roundup time.
"Government seeks a warrant to hack" - US judge gives his decision
Do you usually shy away from legal documents?
Well, here's one that's well worth reading: it deals very interestingly with the zone in which busting cybercrooks and protecting privacy intersect...
Can multiple moving cursors really hide your password from spyware and peepers? [VIDEO]
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Japanese boffins think they might have found an imaginative way to stop malware stealing your passwords as you enter them online.
But will it really work?
Unit 61398: A Chinese cyber espionage unit on the outskirts of Shanghai?
Security researchers at Mandiant have published a lengthy report, which appears to track a notorious hacking gang right to the door of a building belonging to the People's Liberation Army of China.
John McAfee says he infected laptops with malware, spied and stole passwords from Belize officials
John McAfee claims he gave Belize officials cheap laptops that had been deliberately pre-infected with keylogging spyware, and ran a team of 23 women to seduce and spy on his intended targets.
US investigators will call for ban on Huawei, ZTE over spying concerns
The US House of Representatives Intelligence Committee will issue a report Monday that recommends that Chinese firms Huawei and ZTE should be barred from the American market because their products could be used to undermine domestic cyber security.
Companies agree to stop spying, taking secret photos on rented home computers
The US Federal Trade Commission has reached a settlement with a remote monitoring software firm and its customers over what the agency said was flagrant computer spying on customers of the rental stores.
How a malicious help file can install a spyware keylogger
Do you think that Windows help file is safe? Think again.
Malware authors can create boobytrapped .HLP files, designed to infect your computer.
Mac malware spies on infected users through video and audio capture
After further analysis, more information has emerged about the Morcut Mac OS X malware which was discovered this week.
Man who tricked women into taking hacked webcams into shower is jailed
It's jail for a 21-year-old Californian man who tricked female victims into taking their spyware-infected laptops into the shower with them.
Thousands of secretly-taken still images and videos were found on Trevor Harwell's computer.
Sun journalist arrested in computer hacking investigation
Scotland Yard has arrested a tabloid journalist as part of their investigation into computer hacking.
Flame worm - Iran claims to discover new Stuxnet-like malware
Iranian authorities claim to have discovered another targeted cyberattack against the country - the Flamer worm (also known as Flame).
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.
Gordon Ramsay sues over hacked emails that revealed hair transplant
Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay is suing a former editor of the disgraced News of the World newspaper in a case involving hacked emails.
Nortel veteran claims Chinese hackers stole its data for nearly 10 years
For almost a decade, telecoms firm Nortel Networks was repeatedly breached by hackers, claims the Wall Street Journal.
Paybacks are hell: Parental spying prompts infiltration of German police system
A policeman in Germany decided to install spyware on his daughter's computer only to have a friend of hers hack his computer in retribution. The result? The compromise of the German federal surveillance system known as Patras.
Carrier IQ snoops on US cell users - Spyware or service monitoring tool?
Researcher Trevor Eckhart posted information showing that US mobile carriers were installing a rootkit on mobile phones that can record location, keystrokes and other sensitive data to mobile carriers. It can be included on Android, Nokia, Blackberry and other tablets causing privacy concerns among users.
'Journalists hacked UK government' - police investigate evidence
UK police have warned a former British Cabinet minister that they are investigating evidence that his computer was hacked by private detectives working for Rupert Murdoch's News International organisation and the disgraced "News of the World" newspaper.
Leveson Inquiry hears claims of newspaper computer hacking
Were newspaper journalists responsible for not just phone hacking.. but computer hacking too?
Japanese parliament hit by cyber-attack
Hackers were able to snoop upon emails and steal passwords from computers belonging to lawmakers at the Japanese parliament for over a month, according to newspaper reports.
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