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Fake Pope Twitter account proves malicious potential of breaking news

Mere minutes after it become publicly known that Argentinian cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected to serve as the new Pope, Internet users around the world began …

NIST National Vulnerability Database down due to malware

U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology’s National Vulnerability Database is unavailable, and has been since they discovered malware on some of its servers …

Google unveils site to help webmasters recover their hacked sites

As the most widely used Internet search engine, Google Search is the de-facto starting point for hundreds of millions of queries each day. It you are an administrator of a …

Published celeb credit reports came from government-mandated website

U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama, former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and socialite Kris Jenner are four additional victims of …

Adobe patches Flash again, but not the flaws exploited at Pwn2Own

As promised last year, Adobe has been issuing its scheduled Flash updates on the second Tuesday of each month – the same day that Microsoft chose for its monthly Patch …

Who are the enemies of the Internet?

In their latest report on online surveillance, Reporters Without Borders have named Bahrain, China, Iran, Syria and Vietnam as “state enemies” of the Internet due …

Zoosk asks users to reset passwords following mass leak

Online dating service Zoosk is urging some of its users to change their passwords following the leaking of a list of some 29 million passwords that seemingly contains theirs. …

Hackers steal, leak financial info of U.S. celebrities and politicians

Detailed personal and financial information of a number of U.S. celebrities, politicians and a chief of police has been made public by hackers, TMZ reports. The victims of the …

DIY Steam information harvesting tool sends out mass malicious invites

Webroot’s Dancho Danchev has unearthed a DIY Steam information harvester / mass group inviter tool being offer for sale on a number of cybercrime-friendly underground …

MiniDuke does not come only via email

Researchers from Kaspersky and CrySyS Lab continue to analyze the MiniDuke backdoor and have discovered two previously unknown infection mechanisms. Recently discovered to …

Old and new botnets behind spam resurgence

Even when they have other capabilities, botnets are primarily used to send out malicious messages, since that is the easiest – not to mention the least risky – way …

Facebook’s in-house drills were crucial for smooth response to watering hole attack

Facebook was the first company to admit publicly to have been affected by the recent watering hole attack that started with a compromised forum site popular with mobile …

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