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Article | 30/03/2012 Malware infects Macs through Microsoft Office vulnerability
Security researchers have encountered new email-based targeted attacks that exploit a vulnerability in Microsoft Office to install a remote access Tro...
Article | 29/03/2012 Security firms disable the second Kelihos botnet
A group of malware experts from security companies Kaspersky Lab, CrowdStrike, Dell SecureWorks and the Honeynet Project, have worked together to disa...
Article | 29/03/2012 Flash Player 11.2 fixes critical vulnerabilities, adds silent updates
Adobe released Flash Player 11.2 on Tuesday, addressing two critical arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities and introducing a silent update option.
Article | 28/03/2012 Reborn LulzSec claims hack of dating site for military personnel
A group of hackers claiming to be the reborn Lulz Security (LulzSec) took credit for an alleged compromise of MilitarySingles.com, a dating website fo...
Article | 26/03/2012 Facebook scammers host Trojan horse extensions on the Chrome Web Store
Cybercriminals are uploading malicious Chrome browser extensions to the official Chrome Web Store and use them to hijack Facebook accounts, according ...
Article | 23/03/2012 European mid-size businesses unprepared for data security risks, study says
European mid-size businesses are not doing enough to protect their sensitive data, and need to take employee-related information security threats more...
Article | 23/03/2012 Most webmasters don't know how their websites got hacked, report says
Most owners of compromised websites don't know how their sites got hacked into and only 6 percent detect the malicious activity on their own, accordin...
Article | 22/03/2012 Hacktivism was the leading cause for compromised data in 2011, says Verizon
More than half of data stolen from companies in 2011 was a result of hacktivist actions, even though the majority of data breaches were still caused b...
Article | 22/03/2012 Report about hack threat to Tibetan activists used as lure in attack against them
Hackers are using a recent report about cyberthreats to Tibetan activists as a lure in a new attack against pro-Tibet organizations that distributes W...
Article | 21/03/2012 Researchers discover new Duqu variant that tries to evade antivirus detection
Security researchers have discovered a new variant of the Duqu cyberespionage malware that was designed to evade detection by antivirus products and o...
Article | 20/03/2012 Cost of data breaches falls for first time in seven years
The average organizational cost of data breaches has decreased for the first time in seven years, according to a study released by Symantec and the Po...
Article | 19/03/2012 Java-based Web attack installs hard-to-detect malware in RAM
A hard-to-detect piece of malware that doesn't create any files on the affected systems was dropped onto the computers of visitors to popular news sit...
Article | 17/03/2012 Leaked exploit prompts researcher to publish blueprint for critical RDP vulnerability
Luigi Auriemma, the researcher who discovered a recently patched critical vulnerability in Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), published a proo...
Article | 16/03/2012 Digitally signed malware is increasingly prevalent, researchers say
Security companies have recently identified multiple malware threats that use stolen digital certificates to sign their components in an attempt to av...
Article | 16/03/2012 Cold-calling scammers target antivirus customers, diversify their tactics
Tech support scammers have started targeting antivirus customers and have diversified their techniques, according to reports from antivirus vendors Av...

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