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Biz urged to blast DNSChanger Trojans before safety net comes down
8 March cutoff following Operation Ghost Click
Half of all Fortune 500 companies still contain computers infected with the DNSChanger Trojan, weeks after a FBI-led takedown operations targeting the botnet's command-and-control infrastructure.…
Mother charged with selling fake Facebook stock
Bogus shares also allegedly given out as Christmas presents
A Wisconsin woman has been charged over claims she tried to sell $1m worth of Facebook shares that she didn't own.…
Anonymous hackers leak Scotland Yard-FBI conference call
Were you talking about us?
Members of Anonymous have released an intercept of a conference call between investigators at the FBI and Scotland Yard during which operations against hacktivist group were discussed.…
Apple FileVault cracked in under an hour by forensics biz
Passware scratches Lion's belly, penetrates fruity disk
Apple's FileVault disk encryption can be circumvented in less than an hour, according to a computer forensics firm.…
Satellite phones lift skirt, flash cipher secrets at boffins
Security though obscurity fails yet again
Researchers at the Ruhr-University Bochum have managed to extract the secret encryption algorithmns used by satellite phones, and discovered that it's a lot less secure than one might hope.…
'We're totally in LA pissing people off'
Plus 'The horror!'
Quotw This was the week when Facebook finally filed for its IPO.…
Verisign admits 2010 hack attack, mum on what was nicked
SEC filing shows BOFH cover-up
Verisign has admitted in an SEC filing that it suffered numerous data breaches in 2010, but that management wasn’t informed by staff for nearly a year after they occurred.…
Symantec: We've plugged up pcAnywhere holes
Security giant tries to draw line under source code soap opera
Symantec has said its pcAnywhere remote control software is once again safe to use, following the release of its latest security patch.…
Kelihos botnet BACK FROM THE DEAD
Bloodied spam-spewing zombie staggers in
The spam-spewing Kelihos botnet has returned from the dead.…
Demand for safety kitemark on software stepped up
MPs want new standard plus web security schooling
The government and industry ought to do more to promote online safety, according to an influential panel of MPs.…
Facebook warns investors of potential SPAM DELUGE
IPO filing: Spamvalanche could kill us
Facebook has been the first internet company to baldly state the risks it faces from hacking and spam to the markets since the SEC issued guidance on the issue.…
Met's email hack probe turns spotlight on <cite>The Times</cite> - MP
Scotland Yard keeps mum
Scotland Yard officers investigating allegations of computer hacking by News International staff have declined to "give a running commentary" on their probe, batting away MP Tom Watson's narration of the saga.…
New Trojan routes your bank's calls to CROOKS
That's right, I really just ordered 10 plasma tellies...
Devious cybercrooks have developed a Trojan that is capable of redirecting calls your bank has made to verify suspicious transactions – straight into the waiting handsets of professional criminal caller services.…
Fairfax bunkers down after alleged hack
Privacy Commissioner wakes up
Two Fairfax sites remain offline this morning after they were apparently compromised, with the possible loss of credit card information.…
Microsoft ad campaign savages Google over privacy
'We are not like them, and hey, why not try IE?'
Updated Microsoft is launching a three-day advertising campaign in the US, offering itself as the privacy-respecting alternative to Google.…
MasterCard joins Visa in pushing PINs into America
13 months and counting
MasterCard has published its roadmap for getting Americans to use chip-and-PIN cards in stores, following Visa's lead in proposing to replace swipe cards by April 2013.…
OFFICIAL: Smart meters won't be compulsory
No offence to refuse in Blighty
Vid So-called 'smart meters' will not be mandatory, the energy minister has confirmed. The pledge was made by Charles Hendry last Thursday, and confirmed to us by the Department of Energy and Climate Change today.…
Romanian cops cuff suspected serial hacker TinKode
Alleged Royal Navy, Pentagon invader gets keelhauled
Romanian police have arrested a man suspected of breaking into the websites of NASA and the Pentagon in a series of high-profile hack attacks.…
Expert to finger air steward commentards who 'harassed' pilot
Probe into airline staff forum 'will not breach privacy rights'
A trade union has been ordered to let an independent expert examine its computer database to try to identify anonymous users of a forum it operated who allegedly defamed and harassed an airline pilot.…