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World’s third largest botnet receives mortal blow

Grum, a botnet responsible for 17.4 percent of the world’s spam emails, finally seems to be dead. In the last few days, Dutch authorities have shut down two of the …

Guy steals $80,000 worth of Nike items via website loophole

A former college baseball player from Virginia managed to get his hands on Nike merchandise worth over $80,000 for free after having found and exploited a loophole in one of …

Compromised online accounts for sale

The recently unearthed website of a service specializing in selling access to compromised email and social networking accounts of Russian and Ukrainian users offers a …

Spam for Dropbox users raises speculations about breach

European Dropbox users have been inundated with spam advertising gambling websites, prompting speculations about a possible breach of the company’s systems. The news …

Android malware is booming

Trend Micro’s January prediction that some 11,000 pieces of Android malware will be detected by June this year has proved completely inaccurate, as the number of …

Fake Facebook photo tag notification leads to malware

Beware of fake Facebook emails telling you that you’ve been tagged in a photo, as you could easily end up infected with malware. The emails do visually resemble messages …

Firefox gains Google encrypted search by default

With this latest Firefox release (v14.0.1), Mozilla has fixed a slew of security vulnerabilities, including five deemed critical that may have allowed hackers to run attacker …

WoW players targeted with in-game phishing schemes

It should not be a surprise that when Blizzard announced closed beta testing for Mists of Pandaria – the fourth expansion pack for the massively popular World of …

Google will block Chrome add-ons from third-party sites

Google has instituted a new rule that should keep Chrome users safe from malicious add-ons: starting with version 21.0.1180.41 (currently in beta), the browser will block all …

Bogus O2 “account security update” emails tricking users

Phishers are taking advantage of the recent network problems that left O2 mobile customers scrambling for a connection and are trying to convince them to share account details …

Anonymous hacks oil giants, leaks employees’ passwords

In support of Greenpeace’s efforts to stop companies drilling for oil in the Arctic, Anonymous has leaked around 1,000 email addresses belonging to five of the biggest …

Android gets safer with full ASLR implementation

Last week’s release of Jelly Bean (v 4.1+), the latest version of Google’s Android, was a big step for the company security-wise, as the hugely popular mobile …

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