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Bing, Yahoo! serving malware for popular search terms

Bing results for popular search terms such as “Firefox/Skype/AdobePlayer/uTorrent download” have been poisoned with bogus websites pushing a variety of malware. On …

Windows 8 new security features

The Internet is all abuzz with the news of the upcoming Windows 8, whose early version has been demonstrated on Tuesday at Microsoft’s BUILD conference. Setting aside …

Is this the end of the line for DigiNotar?

DigiNotar is going down quickly and in flames. After having its SSL and EVSSL certificates deemed untrustworthy by the most popular browsers, around 4200 qualified …

Russian cyber criminal steals $3.2 millions in 6 months

A Russian resident in his early 20s is believed to be the leader of a tightly knit gang using banking Trojans and money mules to earn themselves millions of dollars. The …

BIOS rootkit found in the wild

Security researchers have recently discovered a new rootkit that targets computers’ BIOS, making the infection harder to detect and eradicate, and persist even if the …

uTorrent client on official site replaced with scareware

Users that have downloaded the uTorrent software client from the uTorrent.com website on Tuesday morning are warned that they might have ended up with scareware on their …

Botnet masters are spreading their resources

With the takedown of the Pushdo/Cutwail, Bredolab and Rustock, the number of “zombified” US computers has decreased so much that the country is no longer …

Vending machine company breach results in massive credit card data theft

Credit and debit card data of some 40,000 people who visited the Wilderness Resorts water parks in Wisconsin and Tennessee from December 12, 2008 to May 25, 2011 has been …

Facebook tool automates syphoning of user data

A group of security researchers has developed a proof-of-concept Java-based tool that could allow malicious individuals to automatize the syphoning of information from a …

Bogus “last words” Facebook app offer leads to malware

Humans have many impulses and fears, and cyber crooks can be counted on exploiting each and every one of them for achieving their purposes. The latest example of this has been …

Large EU IT systems to be managed by single agency

The first step towards a pan-European agency that will manage the large IT systems common to all member states has been taken, reports Computerworld. The EU’s General …

NBC News Twitter account hijacked by using a Trojan?

On the very eve of the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the NBC News Twitter account begun posting messages saying that two civilian airplanes have been hijacked …

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