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Facebook backtracks on address and phone data sharing

It seems that enough people have objected to Facebook’s announcement about the imminent change regarding permissions for for address and mobile number that the social …

ICQ’s critical flaw allows attackers to serve malicious software update

ICQ – the popular instant messaging application – has a gaping security hole that can allow attackers to execute malicious code on the targeted system, says …

Unsecured IP cameras accessible to everyone

In the last couple of decades, we have become so accustomed to the idea that the public portion of our everyday life is watched and recorded – in stores, on the street, …

Vulnerabilities in the Boonana Trojan increase the danger

First spotted almost three months ago, the Boonana Trojan stood out because of its capability to infect both computer running Windows and those running Mac OS X. The Trojan …

Dating site creates profiles based on information scraped online

Various publicly available information regarding all US citizen is likely to be aggregated and be made available by Gotham Dating Partners, according to an announcement made …

Banking Trojan incorporates legitimate remote control software

It seems that every technology made for “good” can be misused, and that also goes for software, apparently. An ESET researcher has recently received a sample of …

Toolkit merging Zeus and SpyEye already on the market?

When the alleged Zeus-SpyEye merger became news last October, a lot of people wondered what new capabilities we could expect of this new toolkit. According to McAfee’s …

Inside a banking Trojan drop-zone

There can be no doubt that cybercrime is on the rise. Compared to real-world crime, it is easier, often more profitable, and carries definitely less risk to the perpetrator. …

Facebook apps now allowed to harvest users’ address and mobile phone number

The latest step that Facebook took in the long process of eroding our privacy expectations happened on Friday. The social network announced on their Developer Blog that from …

Ransomware continues to pose a threat

The great majority of cybercriminals is in it for the money. Some choose to steal it indirectly by using information-stealing malware to gain access to users’ online …

Former TSA employee sentenced for hacking agency’s databases

A former TSA worker has been found guilty and has been sentenced to two years in prison and a $60,587.07 fine to be payed to the TSA. He was accused of tampering with the …

Gamers breached medical server to play Call of Duty

An office server on which the New Hampshire Seacoast Radiology had stored sensitive personal and medical information of more than 230,000 patients has been breached in …

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