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Article | 27/01/2009 British UFO hacker's extradition case to be reviewed
A British hacker who sought to find evidence of UFOs on U.S. military computers has another chance at avoiding extradition after a court ruling Friday...
Article | 23/01/2009 Symbian malware takes money from phone
Hackers have discovered a new way to steal your money: texting it out of your phone.
Article | 27/01/2009 Hackers lurking in Obama's Web site
US President Barack Obama ran a successful Web 2.0 campaign last year. Now, as president, he's got to deal with a very Web 2.0 problem: hackers abusin...
Article | 26/01/2009 Mozilla wants to watch Firefox users
Mozilla Labs, the research arm of Mozilla, wants 1% of Firefox users to allow it to watch how they use the browser -- and the Web in general.
Article | 27/01/2009 Researchers wait for Downadup worm's second act
The worm that's infected millions of Windows PCs is a "very well-engineered" piece of malware, according to one security expert. But researchers still...
Article | 22/01/2009 Apple updates QuickTime media player
Apple has released a new version of its QuickTime media player adding critical security fixes as well as some new tweaks to improve the software's eas...
Article | 20/01/2009 Fake sites spreading malware claim Obama won't take oath
Sites claiming President-Elect Barack Obama will refuse to take the oath of office Tuesday are serving up attack code believed to be programmed by the...
Article | 17/01/2009 Protecting Against the Rampant Conficker Worm
Businesses worldwide are under attack from a highly infectious computer worm that has infected almost 9 million PCs, according to antivirus company F-...
Article | 16/01/2009 How Obama might get his way on BlackBerry
Naysayers aside, President-elect Obama appears determined to take office Tuesday with his BlackBerry -- or at least some PDA -- firmly in hand. Here's...
Article | 16/01/2009 1 in 3 Windows PCs vulnerable to worm attack
The worm that has infected several million Windows PCs is causing havoc because nearly a third of all systems remain unpatched 80 days after Microsoft...
Article | 15/01/2009 Researcher: Worm infects 1.1M Windows PCs in 24 hours
The computer worm that exploits a months-old Windows bug has infected more than a million PCs in the past 24 hours, a security company said Wednesday.
Article | 14/01/2009 Privacy groups file mobile marketing complaint with US FTC
Two privacy groups on Tuesday asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to regulate how mobile marketers can use consumers' personal information, saying...
Article | 14/01/2009 Microsoft patches 'super nasty' Windows bugs
Microsoft Tuesday patched three vulnerabilities in the company's Server Message Block (SMB) file-sharing protocol, including two that could make "swis...
Article | 9/01/2009 Fake CNN malware attack spins Gaza angle
Hackers have launched a large-scale spam attack masquerading as CNN.com news notifications about the Israeli invasion of Gaza, security researchers sa...
Article | 9/01/2009 E-mail snafu exposes names of confidential witnesses
From the how-not-to-keep-a-secret department comes the tale of an official at U.S Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald's office in Chicago who inadvertently e-...
Article | 9/01/2009 Microsoft to kick off 2009 with single security fix
After being forced to rush out an emergency patch for its Internet Explorer browser last month, Microsoft plans to release just one security update in...
Article | 8/01/2009 Fake LinkedIn profiles promise pics, send malware instead
Hackers have seeded LinkedIn, the business networking service, with bogus celebrity profiles that link to malicious sites serving up attack code, a se...
Article | 7/01/2009 Google comes in third on top 10 list of spam enablers
Google has yet to stop a rising number of spammers from abusing Google Docs, its Web-based collaboration and spreadsheet application, according to jun...
Article | 7/01/2009 Trend Micro, BigFix team on antimalware, systems management
Trend Micro and BigFix Tuesday announced plans to integrate their respective antimalware and systems management technologies.
Article | 6/01/2009 Researchers hack into Intel's vPro
Security researchers said they've found a way to circumvent an Intel vPro security feature used to protect PCs and the programs that they run from tam...

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