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Malware attacks via malicious iPhone chargers

Do you ever think twice about using someone else’s charger for recharging your iPhone? Well, you will now, as three Georgia Tech researchers have managed to install a …

New leaks say NSA can see all your online activities

If you have followed the unfolding of the NSA surveillance scandal, you have probably heard the mantra “It’s only metadata!” repeated many times by US …

Canonical reveals details of Ubuntu Forums hack

Canonical has published a postmortem on the recent Ubuntu Forums hack and has shared a blow-by-blow account on how the attack was carried out. At 16:58 UTC on 14 July 2013, …

Chrome, Firefox users targeted with account-hijacking plugins

Hijacked social networking accounts can be monetized in a number of ways, so cyber crooks are always thinking up new ways of doing so, preferably without the user noticing. …

How to spot and avoid SMS scams

2013 has been touted by Gartner as the year when mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common Web access device worldwide. When you think about it, it’s logical, …

72k people affected by University of Delaware hack

University of Delaware is the latest of the high-learning institutions in the US to have been hit with a cyber attack that resulted in a data breach. According to a …

Microsoft announces MAPP overhaul

Introduced in 2008, the Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP) was created to give antivirus vendors a head start against malware developers. Vendors would get …

Syrian hackers target White House staffers, Reuters

The Syrian Electronic Army has been busy over the last few days, and has managed both to hijack the official Reuters Twitter account and to compromise personal email accounts …

Hijacking ships and planes with cheap GPS spoofers and laptops

After demonstrating a successful GPS spoofing attack against a drone (UAV – unmanned aerial vehicle) last June, Cockrell School of Engineering Assistant Professor Todd …

Apple Dev Center partially back online, still no details about the hack

Parts of the Apple Developer Center are back online after a week long outage caused by an unnamed intruder that has “attempted to secure” personal information of …

Pinterest joins Twitter in supporting Do No Track

Pinterest, the popular pinboard-style photo-sharing website, has announced a couple of big changes, and among them is the Do Not Track (DNT) feature. “We want you to …

The future of phishing: Credit card redirection

Cyber crooks will go at great lengths to get their hand on users’ credit and debit card information. Usually they try to trick them with spoofed emails that lead to …

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