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Man charged with botnet-related crimes

A 19-year-old man has been charged with offences under the Criminal Law Act and Computer Misuse Act by officers from the Metropolitan Police Service’s Police Central …

Increase in stolen digital certificates used to sign malware

A report unearths how “trusted malware” is continuing to grow at an alarming rate. In Q2, AVG has seen an increase in the number of stolen digital certificates …

Certification authority reports security breach

Another certification authority has fallen prey to attackers in need of certificates for phishing authentication pages. The authority in question is StartSSL, operated by …

ICANN domain expansion could increase phishing

The ICANN board gave final approval to what some are calling “the most dramatic change to the Internet in four decades” allowing the expansion of new Top-Level …

Japan criminalizes malware creation and distribution

The Japanese parliament has finally passed a law that punishes malware creators and distributers – and even people who acquire/store malware – with jail time and a …

German hackers sentenced for stealing Lady Gaga songs

The two German youths that have been arrested in December for stealing unreleased songs of over fifty recording artists and selling them online have been found guilty of …

Spam e-books plague Amazon’s Kindle store

If you are a regular customer of Amazon’s Kindle store, you could already be aware of the fact that spammers are using it to fleece customers out of their hard-earned …

Sega hacked, 1.3 million accounts compromised

Sega Corporation was attacked and its database breached last week, and the fact was confirmed by the company the day after it took its SEGA Pass system offline on Thursday. …

iCloud search ends with fake AV

Following Steve Jobs’ announcement of Apple’s entry into the cloud business, the term “iCloud” has quickly become a trending topic. And cyber scammers …

LulzSec leaked passwords come from Writerspace

Following LulzSec’s sharing of a list of 62,000+ random login credentials, people who have been looking into it say that some of them are likely to come from online …

Trojan goes after Bitcoins

Bitcoin – the digital currency that has lately become a point of contention between those that consider it a perfect way of handling payments online and those who said …

LulzSec discloses 62,000+ random login credentials

LulzSec rampages on. They claimed they took out cia.gov for a couple of hours tonight, but its difficult to say whether they really did it or whether the site was made …

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