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Dorkbot worm lurks on Skype and MSN Messenger again

The Dorkbot/Rodpicom worm, which spreads via messaging applications and leads to additional malware infections, is currently doing rounds on Skype and MSN Messenger, warns …

Bogus money transfer notice leads to theft of online banking credentials

Symantec researchers have recently spotted an email phishing campaign impersonating the accounting department of a random firm. “Dear Sir,” says the email, …

Myanmar journalists targeted with state-sponsored Gmail attacks

Google has recently begun warning Myanmar journalists and editors about their Gmail accounts potentially being targeted by state-sponsored attackers. The warning – first …

Pope’s resignation exploited by Twitter spammers

The announcement of the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI later this month has taken the world by surprise, but spammers were quick to react to the news by flooding Twitter …

Bit9 hacked, its certificates stolen and used to sign malware

Bit9, a security firm that provides software reputation, application control and whitelisting services to companies in the financial, technology, government and other sectors, …

Windows and OS X users under attack, update Flash now!

Adobe has pushed out an emergency Flash update that solves two critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-0633 and CVE-2013-0634) that are being actively exploited to target Windows …

Hacker compromises email accounts of Bush family members

A hacker by the online handle “Guccifer” has apparently managed to compromise email accounts belonging to the Bush family and some of their close friends, from …

Twitter users hit with typo-squatting phishing campaign

In the wake of last week’s compromise of 250,000 Twitter accounts comes another threat to Twitter users: phishing messages – both DMs and tweets – that lure …

Bogus cleaning apps on Google Play install backdoor on PCs

Malicious Android apps able to infect and set up a backdoor on PCs running pre-Windows 7 operating systems have been recently spotted by researchers of several security …

Learn by doing: Phishing and other online tests

As a tech-savvy person in a family that mostly consists of low level Internet users – and especially because of my line of work – I’m often tasked with …

Critical flaw lets attackers control hospital, military buildings’ systems

A critical zero-day remote-access vulnerability in an industrial control system that is widely used in hospitals, military installations, manufacturing plants and other …

Massive Bamital click-fraud botnet shut down

Symantec and Microsoft have teamed up to take down the Bamital botnet, and are currently in the process of warning users infected with the Trojan on how to remove it from …

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