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French hacker and alleged Anonymous member arrested after bragging on TV

A French hacker has effectually tied a noose around his own neck when he bragged about hacking into the systems of a big government contractor on national TV. He participated …

Barracuda Networks breached by automated SQL injection attack

Barracuda Networks is the latest security firm to be shamed by a successful attack against its assets. Barracuda’s chief marketing officer Michael Perone has confirmed …

Personal data of 3,000 US Airways pilots leaked by insider?

A data breach that goes back to October 2009 has recently been brought to light by the US Airline Pilots Association (USAPA), which admitted that it has been working for …

Ransom Trojan locks Windows

Ransomware is slowly becoming quite a problem, and the latest one spotted by F-Secure tries a rather innovative approach: it locks the victims out of Windows and doesn’t …

Government-owned credit cards compromised in contractor breach

Numbers and expiry dates of over 600 credit cards belonging to government and law enforcement employees have been stolen and exposed after an attack aimed at an Australian …

Koobface says goodbye to Facebook

Koobface – the computer worm that targets users of the social networking websites such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and others – has stopped using Facebook to …

“Official Profile Viewer Application” Facebook scam

After many, many offers of applications that supposedly show Facebook users who views their profile the most, has the time finally come when these lures don’t work as …

Spam about the Jasmine Revolution leads to malware

By the end of 2010, the total number of Chinese Internet users reached 457 million. That means that even if scammers and hackers concentrate exclusively on that particular …

TJX hacker appeals his sentence, claims US government sanctioned his crimes

Albert Gonzales has become a well-known name in information security circles when he was charged of having organized a gang of cyber thieves that managed to steal over 130 …

US government to deliver terror alerts via Facebook and Twitter

Color-coded terror alerts for US citizens could very soon become a thing of the past. Starting from April 27, the Department of Homeland Security is likely to differentiate …

Scammers continue to exploit Japanese disasters

As Japan has been struck again by a high-magnitude earthquake and warnings about a possible tsunami hitting the Japanese islands have been issued, malware peddlers have …

Privacy violations by popular mobile apps under investigation

An ongoing grand-jury investigation has revealed that many mobile applications could be sending various user information to advertising networks without the users’ …

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