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Breached Fox News Politics Twitter account announces Obama’s death
A person or a group going by the name of TheScriptKiddies managed to hack @foxnewspolitics on Twitter and used it to announce fake death of President Barack Obama. Here are …
Backdoor in the latest version of vsftpd
Chris Evans, author of vsftpd announced that the master site for vsftpd was compromised and that the latest version of vsftpd (vsftpd-2.3.4.tar.gz) was backdoored. The …
Mass spam volumes plummeting as cybercriminals turn to pinpointed attacks
In the complex and ever-changing landscape of online crime, cybercriminals have made a fundamental shift in strategy, abandoning traditional mass spam attacks in favor of …
New book: Network Warrior, Second Edition
There are many books on network certification, this one tells you what to do once you’ve passed the exam and out in the real world. Network Warrior, Second Edition …
WordPress 3.1.4 fixes security issues
WordPress 3.1.4 is available now and is a maintenance and security update for all previous versions. This release fixes an issue that could allow a malicious Editor-level user …
Hiloti Trojan downloader infection rates triple in UK
The Hiloti generic downloader is a Trojan first seen in December 2008 has shown a dramatic increase in infection rates of PCs during June 2011. Hiloti is a generic malware …
Russia becomes world leader for malware
The volume of spam in email traffic increased 2.1 per cent in May, when compared with the previous month, making up on average 80.8 per cent of the total. A reduction of …
2011 CWE/SANS top 25 most dangerous software errors
SANS and Mitre have released the CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Errors list for 2011. The list was compiled with the help of a great number of security experts from a …
45 million U.S. individuals manipulate their identities
When does a little white lie become fraud? An estimated 45 million people in the U.S. have deliberately manipulated their identities in applications for credit, cell phone …
Free anti-virus technology for Amazon EC2
AVG announced free anti-virus technology for Amazon EC2 users. The preconfigured software bundled within an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) is now available on the Amazon Web …
iOS and Android more secure than PCs?
While the most popular mobile platforms in use today were designed with security in mind, these provisions are not always sufficient to protect sensitive enterprise assets …
Gannett Government Media user information stolen
The Gannett Government Media family of websites suffered a cyber attack on resulting in unauthorized access to files containing user information. The information in those …