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TalkTalk breach: Third arrest, data already for sale, criminals targeting pensioners

News about the TalkTalk breach and the investigation of it are coming fast and thick. After the arrests of two teens (one in Northern Ireland, the other from Feltham) believed …

US DOJ admits that Stingrays can be used to intercept call and SMS content

After a battling the US Department of Justice in a court for two and a half years, the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California has emerged victorious and has …

Android infostealer masquerading as MS Word document

A clever Android information-stealing piece of malware is lurking on third-party app markets popular with Chinese users.“The malware portrays itself as a data file with …

Xen Project plugs critical host hijacking flaw, patch ASAP

The latest security update (XSA-145 through 153) for the popular Xen virtualization software fixes nine issues. Eight of them can lead to Denial of Service, but the ninth is …

European Parliament members want member states to protect Edward Snowden

Too little has been done to safeguard citizens’ fundamental rights following revelations of electronic mass surveillance, members of the European Parliament have stated …

UK dating fraud victims lost £33,5 million last year

Action Fraud, UK’s national fraud and Internet crime reporting centre, and the City of London Police have started a Twitter campaign with the aim of teaching people …

.onion officially registered as special-use domain name by the IETF

By publishing the RFC 7686 standard, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has formally recognized the .onion domain as a special-use domain name. “Over the last …

Domain name holders hit with personalized, malware-laden suspension notices

A clever new email spam campaign has been spotted targeting domain name holders, trying to trick them into downloading malware on their systems.The emails take the form of a …

Hackers put up for sale 13 million plaintext passwords stolen from 000webhost

000webhost, a popular free web hosting service, has suffered a data breach that resulted in the compromise of the name, email address and plaintext password of some 13 million …

Attackers are turning MySQL servers into DDoS bots

Someone has been compromising MySQL servers around the world and using them to mount DDoS attacks. The latest targets of these attacks are an (unnamed) US hosting provider and …

US Library of Congress makes tinkering with your car software legal

The US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) makes it illegal to circumvent technological measures used to prevent unauthorized access to copyrighted works. But, there are …

Europe’s new “net neutrality” regulation is full of loopholes

The European Parliament voted yesterday for a Regulation on a Single Market for Electronic Communications. The new regulation brings a complete ban on roaming charges for …

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