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Zeus botnets suffer mighty blow after ISP taken offline

IT SECURITY NEWS - 2 hours 8 min ago
One quarter of C&C channels vanish

At least a quarter of the command and control servers linked to Zeus-related botnets have suddenly gone quiet, continuing a recent trend of takedowns hitting some of the world's most nefarious cyber operations.…

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Google boss says something will happen in China 'soon'

IT SECURITY NEWS - Wed, 03/10/2010 - 21:20
Seven weeks and counting

Google CEO Eric Schmidt has reiterated that the company is currently in negotiations with the Chinese government over its future in the country - despite the Chinese government's claims to the contrary - and he expects some sort of development "soon."…

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Cryptome: PayPal a 'liar, cheat and a thug'

IT SECURITY NEWS - Wed, 03/10/2010 - 18:10
Account still restricted

"PayPal is a fucking liar, a cheat and a thug," says Cryptome operator John Young. The eBay-owned payment service closed the Cryptome account last week, with over $5,000 of donations intended for Young in limbo.…

UK plastic fraud losses fall for first time in 3 years

IT SECURITY NEWS - Wed, 03/10/2010 - 15:21
Online banking losses up though

A rise in online banking fraud losses took some of the shine off the overall fall in debit and credit fraud in the UK last year.…

Twitter adds filter to cut phishing lines

IT SECURITY NEWS - Wed, 03/10/2010 - 14:46
Every twt.tl bit helps

Twitter has tightened up security procedures in order to curtail phishing attacks against users of the micro-blogging service, which have become rampant over recent weeks.…

Twitter adds filter to cut phishing lines

SPYWARE NEWS - Wed, 03/10/2010 - 14:46
Every twt.tl bit helps

Twitter has tightened up security procedures in order to curtail phishing attacks against users of the micro-blogging service, which have become rampant over recent weeks.…

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Twitter adds filter to cut phishing lines

ANTI-VIRUS NEWS - Wed, 03/10/2010 - 14:46
Every twt.tl bit helps

Twitter has tightened up security procedures in order to curtail phishing attacks against users of the micro-blogging service, which have become rampant over recent weeks.…

The power of collaboration within unified communications

Max Clifford takes £1m to drop hack probe

IT SECURITY NEWS - Wed, 03/10/2010 - 11:29
Kiss and don't tell

Celebrity publicist Max Clifford has agreed to accept a £1m plus payoff in exchange for dropping phone hacking allegations against the News of the World.…

Suburban woman accused of using net to recruit terrorists

IT SECURITY NEWS - Wed, 03/10/2010 - 09:02
Feds cuff JihadJane

A suburban Pennsylvania woman who went by the online alias JihadJane used the internet to recruit Islamic terrorists and to plot the assassination of a Swedish cartoonist who depicted the Prophet Mohammed, according to a federal indictment unsealed Tuesday.…

Fraud-prevention service ponies up $12m for 'false' ads

IT SECURITY NEWS - Wed, 03/10/2010 - 01:17
Agrees to safeguard customer data

An Arizona company that sells services designed to prevent identity theft has agreed to pay $12m to settle charges it oversold their effectiveness and didn't adequately protect sensitive customer data.…

It's official: Adobe Reader is world's most-exploited app

IT SECURITY NEWS - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 22:33
The new Microsoft

Adobe's ubiquitous Reader application has replaced Microsoft Word as the program that's most often targeted in malware campaigns, according to figures compiled by F-Secure.…

It's official: Adobe Reader is world's most-exploited app

SPYWARE NEWS - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 22:33
The new Microsoft

Adobe's ubiquitous Reader application has replaced Microsoft Word as the program that's most often targeted in malware campaigns, according to figures compiled by F-Secure.…

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It's official: Adobe Reader is world's most-exploited app

ANTI-VIRUS NEWS - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 22:33
The new Microsoft

Adobe's ubiquitous Reader application has replaced Microsoft Word as the program that's most often targeted in malware campaigns, according to figures compiled by F-Secure.…

What is your recession sales strategy?

New Internet Explorer code-execution attacks go wild

IT SECURITY NEWS - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 21:08
IE 6 and 7 users targeted

Online thugs are exploiting a security bug in earlier versions of Internet Explorer that allows them to remotely execute malicious code, Microsoft warned on Tuesday.…

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FA launches security probe after England team bugged

IT SECURITY NEWS - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 18:20
Lancaster Gate-gate

Reported attempts to sell recordings of conversations between England squad players and coaches have sparked a security breach investigation at the FA.…

Smartphone app botnet experiment blows up a storm

IT SECURITY NEWS - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 17:37
WeatherFist shows phone vulnerability, devs claim

Security researchers fooled nearly 8,000 iPhone and Android users into joining a mobile smartphone "botnet" under the guise of installing an apparently innocuous weather app.…

Vodafone ships Mariposa-infected HTC Magic

IT SECURITY NEWS - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 12:56
Android phone comes riddled with bots

Updated  Vodafone has been blamed for shipping Mariposa botnet malware and other nasties on a HTC Magic Android smartphones it supplied.…

Vodafone ships Mariposa-infected HTC Magic

SPYWARE NEWS - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 12:56
Android phone comes riddled with bots

Updated  Vodafone has been blamed for shipping Mariposa botnet malware and other nasties on a HTC Magic Android smartphones it supplied.…

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Vodafone ships Mariposa-infected HTC Magic

ANTI-VIRUS NEWS - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 12:56
Android phone comes riddled with bots

Updated  Vodafone has been blamed for shipping Mariposa botnet malware and other nasties on a HTC Magic Android smartphones it supplied.…

Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

Thailand approves extradition of credit card hack suspect

IT SECURITY NEWS - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 01:34
Losses top $153m

A criminal court in Thailand has approved the extradition to the US of a Malaysian man suspected of participating in credit card thefts of more than $152m, according to a local news report.…