Articles in the Security Category
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Ping-pong
The latest version of iTunes for Windows addresses 13 security vulnerabilities, as well as adding much-publicised social networking functionality.…
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Now thass geekster
Symantec has teamed up with rapper Snoop Dogg to launch a cybercrime rap contest.…
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Get their Belvoirs mixed up
Geographically mixed-up Algerian hackers made themselves look rather silly by defacing the website of an English stately home instead of Belvoir Fortress in Israel, their intended target.…
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More than 10,000 accounts spoofed
Federal prosecutors have uncovered a scam that used tens of thousands of cloned cellphones to defraud Sprint out of $15m in lost long distance revenue.…
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Relief for Firefox, Nvidia, PowerPoint
Microsoft has released a software tool that helps system administrators protect PCs against a critical class of vulnerabilities found in more than 100 applications from a variety of software makers.…
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Kind of ironic when you think about it
Cheeky scammers are offering prospective marks an application that supposedly shields them from exposure to survey scams.…
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Cybercrime gang allegedly raked in $16m
Russian police have arrested 10 suspected members of a ransomware gang who allegedly made millions via a locked computer malware scam.…
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Tripping the light fantastic
Security researchers using hardware hacking techniques have unearthed generic flaws in supposedly ultra-secure quantum cryptography systems.…
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And then there were nine
A man accused of being one of the most prolific sellers of credit-card data has been charged with participating in the brazen hack of RBS WorldPay in 2008 that funneled about $9.4m out of the payment processor in just 12 hours.…
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Tower data protected by Fourth Amendment
A federal magistrate has ruled that information pulled from cellphone towers provides such an intimate portrait of a customer’s life that government investigators must get a warrant before obtaining it.…