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Article | 10/02/2012 Citadel banking malware is evolving and spreading rapidly, researchers warn
A computer Trojan that targets online banking users is evolving and spreading rapidly because its creators have adopted an open-source development mod...
Article | 9/02/2012 Spammers impersonate well-known developers to publish rogue apps on Android Market
Spammers are impersonating well-known Android software developers in order to distribute rogue apps through the official Android Market.
Article | 9/02/2012 Google Chrome will no longer check for revoked SSL certificates online
Google plans to remove online certificate revocation checks from future versions of Chrome, because it considers the process inefficient and slow.
Article | 9/02/2012 Trustwave admits issuing man-in-the-middle digital certificate, Mozilla debates punishment
Digital Certificate Authority (CA) Trustwave revealed that it has issued a digital certificate that enabled an unnamed private company to spy on SSL-p...
Article | 8/02/2012 Denial-of-service attacks are on the rise, anti-DDoS vendors report
Both the number and volume of distributed denial-of-service attacks are increasing, according to new reports from DDoS mitigation companies Prolexic a...
Article | 7/02/2012 Adobe launches sandboxed Flash Player for Firefox, hopes for fewer exploits
Adobe has released a beta version of Flash Player for Firefox, which has better protection against vulnerability exploits because of a new sandboxed a...
Article | 7/02/2012 Hundreds of DreamHost websites abused by spammers
Rogue PHP pages that redirect users to work-at-home scams have been added to hundreds of websites hosted at DreamHost following a security breach suff...
Article | 4/02/2012 PHP 5.3.10 fixes critical remote code execution vulnerability
The PHP Group <a href="http://www.php.net/archive/2012.php#id2012-02-02-1">released PHP 5.3.10</a> on Thursday in order to address a critical security...
Article | 3/02/2012 Symantec warns of Android Trojans that mutate with every download
Researchers from security vendor Symantec have identified a new premium-rate SMS Android Trojan horse that modifies its code every time it gets downlo...
Article | 3/02/2012 Ice IX banking Trojan steals info that enables fraudsters to hijack phone calls
New variants of the Ice IX online banking Trojan program are tricking victims into exposing their telephone account numbers so that fraudsters can div...
Article | 2/02/2012 Romanian authorities arrest man suspected of hacking into NASA and Pentagon servers
Romanian authorities have arrested a 20-year-old man from the city of Timisoara on Monday under accusations that he hacked into computer systems belon...
Article | 1/02/2012 Hackers infect WordPress 3.2.1 blogs to distribute TDSS rootkit
Hackers are compromising WordPress 3.2.1 blogs in order to infect their visitors with the notorious TDSS rootkit, according to researchers from Web se...
Article | 31/01/2012 MetaFlows launches low-cost SaaS product that unifies network security
Network security monitoring startup MetaFlows launched a new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product that can be installed on low-cost hardware to monito...
Article | 28/01/2012 Facebook scammers redirect victims through Amazon's cloud
Facebook scammers have started redirecting victims through Amazon's cloud in order to bypass malicious URL filters, according to security researchers ...
Article | 28/01/2012 Drive-by-download attack exploits critical vulnerability in Windows Media Player
Security researchers from antivirus vendor Trend Micro have come across a Web-based attack that exploits a known vulnerability in Windows Media Player...

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