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US CERT director resigns

Randy Vickers, the director of the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team, has unexpectedly and rather abruptly resigned his position on Friday. The fact was discovered by …

Hackers steal 8 GB of data from Italian anti-cybercrime unit

Evidence servers of the Italian National Anti-Cybercrime Center for the Protection of Critical Infrastructure (CNAIPIC) have been breached and some its contents published by a …

SecurID users targeted by fake NSA email

RSA’s SecurID token users have recently been targeted with fake emails supposedly coming from the US National Security Agency urging them to update their token code …

Japanese man arrested for storing malware

38-year-old Yasuhiro Kawaguchi is the first person in Japan to get arrested for storing malware on his computer after the upper house’s Judicial Affairs Committee has …

“Amy Winehouse death video” scams hit Facebook users

The past weekend has been rife with bad news that captured the attention of the greater public, and online scammers have wasted no time in taking advantage of it. Facebook …

US demands extradition of UK owner of link site

23-year-old UK citizen Richard O’Dwyer is currently fending off an extradition request by United States authorities. His crime? Setting up and operating a website that …

Chameleon-like fake AV delivered via clever social engineering

A very complex and likely very efficient fake AV spreading campaign has been spotted targeting Facebook users. It starts with users being apparently contacted by one of their …

Anonymous won’t publish stolen NATO documents

Following the arrest of 16 individuals in the U.S. and five in the U.K. and the Netherlands who are allegedly connected to the various cyber attacks organized by Anonymous, …

CCNP Security Secure 642-637 Official Cert Guide

The title of the book says it all - thick and all-encompassing, it covers the topics addressed in the exam CCNP Secure 642-637, but it should not be considered the only source …

DDoS bot masquerades as Java update

An especially virulent Trojan variant with DDoS capabilities has been spotted masquerading as a regular Java update and is being served both from legitimate and malicious …

Internet activist charged with hacking, theft of millions of digital documents

24-year-old Aaron Swartz, renowned programmer and Internet activist, stands accused of having stolen over 4 million digital documents from MIT’s JSTOR archive with the …

Google warns users about active malware infection

Google has begun notifying its users that a particular piece of malware is installed on their computers by showing a big yellow notification above their search results (click …

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