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Sandbox added to Flash Player running on Firefox

As announced by Peleus Uhley, a senior security researcher within its Secure Software Engineering team, Adobe has outfitted the latest (beta) version of Adobe Flash Player …

FBI wants social networks and IM services to be wiretap-friendly

Worried that technology advances will leave its agents incapable of conducting surveillance of online communications of potential criminals, the FBI is quietly lobbying top …

Is a German criminal behind the latest ransomware campaign?

Ransomware distribution campaigns are coming fast one after the other and its usually difficult – if not downright impossible – to discover anything about the …

Adobe patches Flash Player hole exploited in the wild

Adobe has released a security update for Flash Player for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Android that address the object confusion vulnerability (CVE-2012-0779) that is …

Phishers mimic OpenID to steal credentials

New spam email campaigns are taking advantage of the users’ vague familiarity with the OpenID authentication method to phish their login credentials for a number of …

Walmart gift card scam targets smartphone users

Online survey scams are most often propagated through social network and sharing websites, but occasionally users are “assaulted” directly through their …

1,000+ WordPress sites compromised through automatic update feature

More than 1,000 WordPress blogs have been modified to redirect visitors to sites serving malware, affiliate and pay-per-click redirectors, and low quality PPC search result …

New hacking group hits government websites, leaks stolen data

A hacker group that named itself “The Unknowns” has recently boasted on Pastebin of having compromised a number of government, business and educational websites, …

The difficulties in sizing up botnets

The main metric with which security researchers identify how effective and disruptive specific botnets are is the number of computers they consists of. Estimating their size …

RedKit exploit kit spotted in the wild

A new exploit kit that Trustwave researchers have spotted being used in the wild is aiming to enter a market that is practically monopolized by the widely famous BlackHole and …

“Free additional storage” phishing emails doing rounds

Symantec researchers warn about a variety of fake emails supposedly coming from popular email and online storage services, offering “storage quota upgrades”. A …

Android drive-by download malware served by hacked websites

A number of legitimate but compromised websites have been spotted serving Android malware to unsuspecting visitors, warns Lookout. The downloading of the malware, which poses …

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