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Law enforcement increasingly asking Internet companies to share data

The fact that one can find out a lot about a person’s interests, movements and opinions from their Facebook and Twitter accounts, Google searches and messages exchanged …

iPhone 5 spam emails lead to malware

Apple is expected to unveil the next iteration of its popular iPhone during a press event scheduled for tomorrow (October 4). As the excitement regarding the release of the …

HTC Android devices allow almost any app access to private data

It’s bad news all around for users of various HTC Android smartphones, as the private data collected by the logging tools recently introduced by the company is also …

QR codes used to infect Android users with malware

Most people already know what QR codes are: a new type of “barcode” that can be used for a variety of purposes – tracking, ticketing, labeling of products, …

Microsoft security solutions say Chrome is malware

Among the questions and comments on the Google Chrome support forums this morning are several complaints about Microsoft Security Essentials detecting Chrome as a Zbot variant …

Nearly 5 million military health care files stolen

Sensitive data about nearly 5 million patients has been compromised following the theft of backup tapes from an electronic healthcare app used in the military health system, …

25% of tested Google Chrome extensions allow data theft

27 of a 100 tested Google Chrome extensions have been found vulnerable to data (passwords, history, etc.) extraction attacks though specially crafted malicious websites or by …

Clever phisher almost tricks PhishTank

PhishTank is an anti-phishing site run by the OpenDNS team and offers the possibility of submitting suspected phishing sites for community-based review. In short, other users …

Thousands of sites compromised following hosting provider hack

California-based hosting provider InMotion has suffered a compromise that resulted in the defacement of thousands of home pages of websites hosted on their infrastructure, …

Firefox 7 search yields unwanted results

Firefox is the second most widely used browser in the world, so we can be sure that malicious individuals are already working on ways to take advantage of yesterday’s …

“ACH Payment Canceled” spam leads to malware

After a short pause, the failed/cancelled ACH transaction spam is hitting inboxes again. Since yesterday, Websense has intercepted over 200,000 of the following emails: The …

Facebook allegedly promises to fix logout cookies issue

The Facebook tracking cookies issue revealed yesterday has, expectedly, created quite a stir in the security community. The company went into damage control mode and repeated …

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