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Researchers compromise e-voting system

A group of researchers from the University of Michigan has recently attacked and managed to compromise the Washington, DC Digital Vote by Mail Internet voting system, proving …

Arrested Anonymous members charged, Anon retaliates

The online world was rocked yesterday by the news that a number of members of LulzSec and Anonymous were arrested following a betrayal by LulzSec leader “Sabu” and …

Two-thirds of Android AV solutions not good enough

Nearly two-thirds of Android antivirus products offered on the market today cannot be considered reliable enough for use, says independent IT and security research institute …

DNSChanger-infected machines won’t be disconnected, for now

It’s good news for the owners of the computers still infected by the DNSChanger malware, as a US Federal Judge agreed with the Attorney’s Office’s formal …

“Google Pharmacy” spam hitting inboxes

Google’s name and reputation is once again being misused by spammers trying to trick users into believing that what they are selling is endorsed or approved by the …

LulzSec leader Sabu helps police arrest Anonymous hackers

Sabu, the apparent leader of the LulzSec hacktivist group, has been unmasked by the FBI last June and has since been working with them to secure evidence against the …

New P2P botnet soon available for sale

The development of a new botnet that will rely on a decentralized architecture based on P2P technology is nearing completion and will soon be offered for sale for a sum of …

Flash vulnerability exploited to deliver malware

Attackers are once again exploiting the public’s tendency for not keeping its software updated and its ongoing interest about Iran and its nuclear program to infect …

IT security in 2020

Predicting how the world will look like a hundred years from now might seem to many like an exercise in futility given the rapid pace of technological development, but a …

Visa pressures banks into closing spammers’ accounts

When computer science professor Stefan Savage and his team of researchers unveiled their analysis of the spam monetization model last year, they described 15 steps required …

Programmer hacks GitHub to prove a point

Russian programmer Egor Homakov has recently chosen a questionable tactic to prove the danger that a Ruby on Rails public key form update vulnerability poses to systems based …

Tax-themed spam email leads to malware

Cyber criminals are becoming increasingly adept at turning out legitimate-looking spam emails, making sometimes even more experience users fall for the various scams. SANS …

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