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Android wallpaper app stealing user data and sending it to China

The revelation that an application for Android that is being sold on Google’s Android Market is sending out information regarding your phone (SIM card number, subscriber …

Apple improves App Store security

Following the recent hacking of its App Store, Apple instituted a new security measure that should prevent hijackers of accounts from purchasing anything from the store. The …

ATMs hacked and spitting up money at Black Hat

Delivering on his promise, security researcher Barnaby Jack has managed to make two unpatched ATMs from two major vendors spit out cash during his demonstration at the Black …

Trojan masquerades as iPhone jailbreaking software

An email campaigned targeting iPhone users who might want to jailbreak their device has been detected by BitDefender. Only a couple of days after U.S. federal regulators …

100 million Facebook pages published on torrent site

A compilation of Facebook pages (and personal information) of 100 million users of the popular social network is available for download on a torrent site, courtesy of hacker …

Cell-phone call interception demonstration at Defcon might not be a sure thing

Ethical hacker Chris Paget is scheduled to give a talk on cellphone insecurity at Defcon this Saturday, during which he means to demonstrate the possibility of interception of …

Designing Network Security, 2nd Edition

Designing Network Security is a book that will teach you how to secure your corporate network infrastructure. Starting with security fundamentals, you'll learn how to define a …

Fake AV masquerading as Firefox/Flash update

The well known “fake scanning page” that pops up a warning about your computer being infected has been switched with a fake Firefox “Just Updated” page …

Critical vulnerability in Apple QuickTime

A highly critical vulnerability (as dubbed by security researchers from Secunia) affects the latest version of Apple QuickTime Player for Windows. “The vulnerability is …

Mariposa malware author arrested in Slovenia

A 23-year old Slovenian hacker that goes by the handle “Iserdo” has been arrested for developing the code that allowed the three alleged Spanish Mariposa botnet …

Author of cloud-based phishing kit harvests collected credentials from phishers using it

People who embark on a life of crime are usually attracted by the promise of little effort and big money, and the hacker whose phishing kit was discovered to be collecting …

A closer look at Panda Cloud Antivirus Free Edition

Panda Cloud Antivirus (v.1.1.2) consists of a lightweight antivirus agent that is connected in real-time to PandaLabs’ online Collective Intelligence servers for a …

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