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UGNazi attack 4chan, CloudFlare

Visitors to 4chan have recently been automatically redirected to the Twitter account of hacker group UGNazi, and an investigation into the matter revealed that the attack has …

Over-55s pick stronger passwords than youngsters

Despite the often repeated recommendations by security experts, most users regularly fail to choose strong enough passwords. Joseph Bonneau, a computer scientist and …

Some Flame modules were signed with rogue Microsoft certificates

While investigating the recently unearthed Flame (SkyWiper) toolkit, Microsoft’s researchers have made an unwelcome discovery. “We have discovered through our …

Ex MI5 chief gets her laptop stolen at airport

The former Director-General of UK’s internal security service MI5 has had her laptop stolen at London’s Heathrow airport on Tuesday. Dame Stella Rimington, who …

IE10 will have “Do Not Track” on by default

As Microsoft released the preview of the next version of its Internet Explorer browser, news that in Windows 8 the browser will be sending a “Do Not Track” signal …

Spying version of Iranian anti-censorship software found

A compromised variant of Simurgh – a stand-alone proxy software for Microsoft Windows that has been heavily used by Iranians to get around censorship since 2009, and is …

Is Flame something that we should worry about?

Much has been said and written in the last few days since the initial discovery of the so-called Flame (SkyWiper) toolkit. Security researchers have split in two camps: those …

Tiny but deadly banking Trojan discovered

The discovery of a new banking Trojan by the researchers working for CSIS Security Group has proved that a piece of malware doesn’t have to be big and complex to get the …

FBI warns of joint threat by ransomware and banking Trojan

The combination of the Citadel banking Trojan and Reveton ransomware that Trusteer warned about at the beginning of May is apparently still targeting users. So much so, that …

Programmer pleads guilty to US govt software source code theft

A Chinese computer programmer that was charged with stealing the source code of software developed by the US Treasury Department pleaded guilty to the charge on Tuesday. The …

Securing the Cloud

Cloud computing and cloud services have proliferated in the first place because of one simple reason: they lower the cost of doing business. The worrying about the security …

Olympics fans targeted with lottery scam

An email purportedly coming from the promotion manager of the London 2012 Olympics has been hitting inboxes, trying to scam recipients into sending personal information and …

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