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Article | 12/10/2010 Researchers: Criminals could launch 'social reality' attack

Malware could soon become sophisticated enough to launch social engineering attacks based on analysis of a victim's behavioural patterns and social in...

Article | 8/10/2010 Adobe rewrites PDF Reader to bolster security

Adobe has offered more details of the 'sandbox' security feature it plans to implement to secure its hugely popular but often-attacked PDF Reader soft...

Article | 8/10/2010 Ubuntu 10.10 Linux shows new consumer features

Canonical has redoubled its efforts to lure consumers to its Ubuntu desktop Linux OS, revising the user interface for netbooks and tweaking services t...

Article | 7/10/2010 Hackers break into Cryptome whistleblowing site

The Cryptome whistleblowing website was hacked last weekend in an attack that could have compromised sensitive data, possibly including the email addr...

Article | 6/10/2010 Piracy group threatens more DDoS attacks

The self-styled campaigners who launched DDoS attacks on a range of prominent copyright and anti-piracy organisations last week has threatened further...

Article | 6/10/2010 Facebook hit by new iPhone spam attack

Facebook users are being warned about a new spam scam that tries to tempt users into visiting a website with the promise of a free Apple iPhone.

Article | 4/10/2010 BlackBerry backup encryption broken by Russians

A Russian company that specialises in cracking tools claims it has broken the password protection used to secure data backups from BlackBerry smartpho...

Article | 1/10/2010 Santander bank to use Zeus-blocking browser plug-in

Santander has become the latest online bank to start using Trusteer's Rapport browser plug-in, one of the few security tools that guarantees to succes...

Article | 29/09/2010 LinkedIn users attacked by deadly Zeus spam

Networking site LinkedIn is being used as the lure for a huge spam campaign designed to infect UK and US businesses with the data-stealing Zeus/Zbot T...

Article | 28/09/2010 Segway firm owner dies after driving machine off cliff

The owner of the company that bought out the Segway gyroscopic scooter early this year has died after apparently accidentally driving his machine into...

Article | 27/09/2010 Google's Orkut battered by 'Bom Sabado' worm

Thousands of users on Google's Orkut social networking site were hit at the weekend by a new proof-of-concept worm that spread rapidly using the Portu...

Article | 25/09/2010 Spammers hit email users with new html attack

Spammers have suddenly cranked up the use of malicious html file attachments in recent days, according to security company Barracuda Networks.

Article | 25/09/2010 Top brands deluge customers with 'unwanted email'

PC World, JD Sports, Woolworths, Aldi, B&Q and Arcadia Group have been named and shamed as the UK brands most likely to 'spam' customers with unwa...

Article | 23/09/2010 Outsourced apps a security minefield, study finds

Outsourced software is a hotspot for the sort of hidden security problems that leave applications vulnerable, an analysis by code testing outfit Verac...

Article | 23/09/2010 Beatles archive heads for the cloud

The man who took skiffle to the world half a century ago, Sir Paul McCartney, is 'getting a little help from his friends' HP to put his entire oeuvre ...