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Blogs also infected with information-harvesting Trojan
Malware-spreaders are hacking into vulnerable WordPress-powered sites in order to drive traffic towards pages loaded with exploits.…

First Scottish organisation fined by information commissioner
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Midlothian council £140,000 for disclosing sensitive personal data about children and their carers to the wrong people on five separate occasions.…

DMARC Brothers back cross-industry standard
Google, Facebook and other internet heavyweights are collaborating together to back a standard designed to curtail phishing by improving the collaboration between legitimate senders and receivers of emails.…

Researchers split on Counterclank’s naughtiness
Security researchers are split on the seriousness of an Android “malware” campaign that some estimates suggest may have “infected millions” of smartphones via gaming apps from Google’s Android Market.…

DMARC Brothers back cross-industry standard
Google, Facebook and other internet heavyweights are collaborating together to back a standard designed to curtail phishing by improving the collaboration between legitimate senders and receivers of emails.…

Sabelnikov denies botnet herder allegation
The Russian man named by Microsoft as the mastermind behind the Kelihos botnet has stepped forward to plead his innocence.…

Cuffed on suspicion of corruption after tip-off from News Corp
Police officers investigating allegations of illegal payments to cops as part of a larger probe of News International arrested four journalists on Saturday. All four were either current or former hacks at Rupert Murdoch’s tabloid The Sun. Police also arrested a Metropolitan police service officer at [...]

Politicos ask if Chocolate Factory’s new rules violate an FTC agreement
Google is insisting that its new privacy policy will still give its users control, after criticism in a letter from US members of Congress.…

Report: Conficker also still causing mayhem
Fake anti-virus scams are on the wane but drive-by-download threats have rocketed over the past year thanks to the hugely popular Blackhole crimeware kit, while Conficker remains prolific some three years after its release, according to Sophos.…

HTTP header blooper stamped out within hours after outcry
After a flurry of complaints, O2 engineers appear to have shut off the proxy server quirk that leaked to websites the phone numbers of punters browsing the net on 3G connections.…