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Abuse of .EU domains by malware gangs continues despite Registrar notification
What do you do when attackers are abusing legitimate domain Registration services? How do you stop or at least disrupt the malicious attacks? Reporting the incident to the appropriate Registrar is the...
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Barring a miracle, you're going to lose your ability to vote on Facebook...
You, and a billion other Facebook users, only have a few days left to take part in an important vote about how your personal data is used by Facebook.
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Anonymous goes after Hunter Moore, the infamous revenge-porn website publisher
Those claiming to be affiliated with Anonymous have declared war on the internet's most hated man, Hunter Moore, who gained infamy by publishing pornographic photos of people without their permission,...
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"G'day, the Queen speaking" - socially engineering the Duchess of Cambridge's...
Pranksters at a Sydney radio station called the Duchess of Cambridge's hospital in London, pretending to be Her Majesty the Queen and Prince Charles. To their astonishment, their social engineering...
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Tor and the Deepnet: What price does society pay for anonymity?
Hidden on the net is online content which is not so easily accessed, known as the Deepnet (also sometimes called Darknet, the Deep Web or Hidden Web). Julian Bhardwaj takes us on a tour, and asks...
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Microsoft wants to hear about your Android malware problems.. so it can...
Is this a cheap shot by Microsoft? Or are they right to highlight the malware problem on Android smartphones?
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48 countries join forces for biggest-ever fight against online child sex abuse
Experts estimate that there are now some one million images of abused and/or exploited children available online, with the total growing by 50,000 per year.
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What computer security threats can we expect to see in 2013?
Here are the trends that SophosLabs anticipates will shape the IT security landscape next year:
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How to report a computer crime: Fake anti-virus
If you unwittingly downloaded malware to your computer which masqueraded as anti-virus software would you just clean it up and carry on, or report it to the authorities?
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SHA-1 brute-force attack trimmed by 21% - paper from Oslo password hacking...
Jens Steube, author of the pasword cracking tool hashcat, can make your SHA-1 password cracking tool 25% faster. Just like that.
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Monday review - the hot 22 stories of the week
Here you go. All the stories we wrote in the past seven days, in case you missed anything (or just want to read them again).
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You receive the electronic reservation? Malware attack poses as hotel booking...
Bogus hotel reservation emails have been spammed out widely, which claim to come from Booking.com but in reality carry malware designed to infect Windows computers.
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SSCC 100 - John McAfee, OS X malware, Swiss intel, NASA laptops and Romanian...
Chester finally brings up his century with Chet Chat Episode 100 - the Benjamin Franklin edition! Chet's guest in the 100th Chet Chat is Paul Ducklin.
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Complaint from Better Business Bureau really contains malware attack
Malware has been spammed out widely, claiming to come from the Better Business Bureau. Be on your guard.
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US Secret Service probed after sensitive files left on Metro train
A contractor working for the US Secret Service left two tapes full of extremely sensitive data on a Metro train, losing the extremely sensitive, personal data of staff, contact and overseas informants.
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Australian Defence Force Academy in stinkingly bad password breach
The Australian Defence Force Academy is the latest high-profile organisation to become embroiled in a data breach. The breach revealed names, birthdates, and some...well, some stinkingly bad passwords....
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But did she STEAL the iPhone? App takes photo of woman trying to unlock it
A woman who tried to unlock a stolen iPhone unwittingly took her own photo. An application on the phone then automatically sent the photo to the owner, who called the police. It's a good reminder that...
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Patch Tuesday - even Android and Windows RT get a look in
This month's Patch Tuesday includes bulletins from both Microsoft and Adobe, and covers a range of platforms and products. There are updates in the mix for everything from Android to Windows RT, and...
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Mobile apps for kids collecting and sharing information with third parties
The second of two FTC reports on kids' mobile apps shows that the industry hasn't improved with regards to privacy, with many apps sharing personal information with third parties, all without notifying...
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Cyber attackers seize, encrypt and ransom medical centre's patient database
The data-kidnappers are demanding $4,000 to release thousands of patient records belonging to the Miami Family Medical Centre on Australia's Gold Coast.
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