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Article | 22/10/2012 Spammers abuse .gov URL shortener service in work-at-home scams
Spammers have found a way to abuse a URL shortener service destined for U.S. government social media activities in order to craft rogue .gov URLs for ...
Article | 19/10/2012 Dutch government seeks to let law enforcement hack foreign computers
The Dutch government wants to give law enforcement authorities the power to hack into computers, including those located in other countries, for the p...
Article | 18/10/2012 Adobe bolsters security in Reader, Acrobat XI with added features
The recently launched Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat XI come with new security features and an improved sandbox that will make the products harder to ...
Article | 17/10/2012 Over 20Gbps DDoS attacks have become common occurrences, Prolexic says
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks with an average bandwidth of over 20Gbps have become commonplace this year, according to researchers from...
Article | 16/10/2012 The Steam URL protocol can be abused to exploit vulnerabilities in games, researchers say
Attackers can abuse the way browsers and other applications handle steam:// protocol URLs in order to exploit serious vulnerabilities in the Steam cli...
Article | 15/10/2012 Facebook removes two-factor authentication mobile numbers from search
Facebook users who have associated a mobile phone number with their accounts in order to enable the "Login Approvals" security feature can no longer b...
Article | 15/10/2012 Kaspersky discovers miniFlame cyberespionage malware directly linked to Flame and Gauss
Security researchers from Kaspersky Lab have identified another piece of malware targeting the Middle East that is likely part of the interrelated cyb...
Article | 12/10/2012 Former LulzSec member pleads guilty to conspiracy in Sony Pictures hack
An Arizona man has admitted his involvement in a May 2011 computer attack against the website of Sony Pictures Entertainment that was carried out by t...
Article | 11/10/2012 Mozilla releases Firefox 16.0.1 to address four vulnerabilities
Mozilla released Firefox 16.0.1 on Thursday in order to fix a publicly disclosed vulnerability and three other security flaws identified after the rel...
Article | 10/10/2012 Facebook patches security hole that allowed mass harvesting of phone numbers
Facebook has restricted the rate at which users can perform phone number searches on its mobile website in order to block a recently disclosed method ...
Article | 10/10/2012 Firefox 16 addresses numerous critical vulnerabilities
Mozilla Firefox 16 was released on Tuesday and addresses numerous security vulnerabilities, many of which are rated as critical.
Article | 10/10/2012 Russian startup working on Intel to ARM software emulator
A Russian startup company called Elbrus Technologies is developing a technology that will allow data center owners to migrate software designed for x8...
Article | 9/10/2012 The number of reported application vulnerabilities has increased, Microsoft report says
After a period of steady decline that started in 2009, the number of application vulnerabilities has seen a significant increase during the first half...
Article | 9/10/2012 Malware-infected computers being rented as proxy servers on the black market
Cybercriminals are using computers infected with a particular piece of malware to power a commercial proxy service that funnels potentially malicious ...
Article | 8/10/2012 Facebook's phone search can be abused to find people's numbers, researchers say
Attackers can abuse Facebook's phone search feature to find valid phone numbers and the name of their owners, according to security researchers.

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