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50 ISPs harbor half of all infected machines worldwide

As the classic method of combating botnets by taking down command and control centers has proven pretty much ineffective in the long run, there has been lots of talk lately …

Holiday spam e-mail runs start off

Spammers peddling fake pills, replica watches, jewelry and bags are gearing up for the approaching holidays. According to Trend Micro researchers, using the upcoming Black …

Proof-of-concept Android app reveals platform’s security bug

Angry Birds is an extremely popular mobile game that can be played on Apple, Android and Nokia mobile devices – indeed, it has been downloaded by millions of users. So, …

Will ears replace fingerprints as a form of ID?

Fingerprint checks and iris scans may be the most popular ways of biometric identification for the time being, but it looks like they might soon be joined – if not …

Lethic Trojan is back, uses same stolen digital certificate as Stuxnet

Some two months ago, the world found out about the Stuxnet – the worm that used the Windows .lnk file vulnerability in order to spread through removable drives of …

Palin e-mail hacker sentenced

After a number of delays, former University of Tennessee student David Kernel has finally received his sentence for compromising Sarah Palin’s Yahoo! e-mail account back …

Millions stolen in ATM fraud

Two executives of an automated teller machine dispensing company are currently waiting to be sentenced in a case of fraud perpetrated against Connecticut’s Domestic …

Facebook “free plane tickets” scams

Don’t be tricked by the impossibly good offers that have lately been popping up on Facebook profiles. There are no free ticket giveaways – there’s only the …

Go Daddy offers vulnerability site scanning tool

A lot of the news concerning Internet domain registrar and Web hosting company Go Daddy that we covered lately had to do with compromised sites hosted on its servers. And …

Facebook bug compromises top pages

A customer of Sendible, an online marketing service for promoting and tracking brands through the use of social media, e-mail and SMS messaging, has inadvertently discovered a …

Facebook “love button” app links to malware

If you spot a Facebook post or a message that advertises an application that will let you “unlock” a “love” (

A closer look at NetShade for Mac

NetShade (v.4.0.1) makes your presence on the web anonymous by routing your connection through a proxy server and acting as the middle-man in your connection. The proxy server …

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