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Facebook IPO advanced fee scam hitting inboxes
Today’s the day when Facebook has officially become a publicly traded company, after founder Mark Zuckerberg rang the bell and officially opened trading on the Nasdaq …
Hacker jailed for targeting Call of Duty gamers
It’s a bad week for British hackers as another youth has been handed a prison sentence. 20-year-old Lewys Martin from Kent is a repeat offender that, among other things, …
Worm targets Facebook users via PMs
A worm posing as a JPG image has seemingly been spotted propagating on Facebook and through various IM applications. “We recently received reports about private messages …
Malicious fake Android AV apps pushed onto users
It seems that every week a new way of targeting Android users with malware is discovered, and most often than not, Russian users are primary targets. Sophos’ researcher …
Flashback botmasters earned less than $15K
It has already been established that the criminals behind the Flashback botnet were after money, but according to Symantec researchers, their plan was foiled by the attention …
Anti-Anonymous hacker takes credit for The Pirate Bay DDoS
After 72 hours of being hit with an extensive DDoS attack and having been intermittently inaccessible to its visitors, The Pirate Bay and WikiLeaks are back online. It was …
Briton jailed for hacking a Facebook account
Gareth Crosskey, a 21-year-old from West Sussex who was arrested for hacking into a private Facebook account, has been handed down a prison sentence of 12 months by the …
Most CCTV systems are easily accessible to attackers
The use of CCTV cameras for physical surveillance of all kinds of environments has become so pervasive that most of us don’t give the devices a second thought anymore. …
Kickstarter bug granted access to unlaunched projects
A bug in the private application programming interface (API) of Kickstarter, the popular crowd funding website for creative projects, has exposed details about 70,000 projects …
Avira “fixes” PC-crippling update bug
On Monday, Avira issued a faulty Service Pack for all of its products running on 32-bit versions of Windows, which resulted in massive problems for users as the …
Ads on Wikipedia can point to malware infection
Every now and then, Wikipedia’s popularity and brand are misused by malware peddlers, typosquatters and scammers. But the fact that the Wikipedia project is funded …
Banking Trojan masquerading as Chrome installer
Brazilian and Peruvian users looking to install Google’s Chrome browser are in grave danger of downloading information-stealing malware instead. “We recently found …
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