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Article | 19/06/2013 Java 7 Update 25 fixes 40 security issues, turns on certificate revocation checking

Oracle addressed 40 security issues in Java and enabled online certificate revocation checking by default in its scheduled critical patch update for J...

Article | 18/06/2013 Source code for Carberp financial malware is up for sale at a very low price, researchers say

The source code for the Carberp banking Trojan program is being offered for sale on the underground market at a very affordable price, which could res...

Article | 17/06/2013 UK spy agency reportedly intercepted email of delegates at G20 meetings in 2009

British intelligence agency Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) reportedly intercepted the electronic communications of foreign politicians ...

Article | 14/06/2013 Some foreign-backed US phone companies reportedly excluded from NSA surveillance program

At least two U.S. mobile operators, T-Mobile US and Verizon Wireless, reportedly do not participate directly in the U.S. National Security Agency's ca...

Article | 13/06/2013 Spy-proof enterprise encryption is possible, but daunting

Data encryption could help enterprises protect their sensitive information against mass surveillance by governments, as well as guard against unauthor...

Article | 11/06/2013 Microsoft patches critical IE vulnerabilities and actively exploited Office flaw

A new batch of security updates released by Microsoft on Tuesday address a total of 23 vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, Windows and Microsoft Off...

Article | 10/06/2013 New backdoor malware 'KeyBoy' used in targeted attacks in Asia, researchers say

Users from Vietnam, India, China, Taiwan and possibly other countries, were targeted as part of an attack campaign that uses Microsoft Word documents ...

Article | 7/06/2013 New Android Trojan app exploits previously unknown flaws, researchers say

A newly discovered Trojan program exploits previously unknown flaws in Android and borrows techniques from Windows malware in order to evade detection...

Article | 6/06/2013 Hacker publishes alleged zero-day remote code execution exploit for older Plesk versions

A hacker released what he claims is a zero-day exploit for older versions of the Parallels Plesk Panel, a popular Web hosting administration software ...

Article | 6/06/2013 ISC patches publicly disclosed denial-of-service vulnerability affecting BIND 9

The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC), the organization that develops and maintains the widely used BIND DNS (Domain Name System) software, has patche...

Article | 5/06/2013 Malware increasingly uses peer-to-peer communications, researchers say

The number of malware samples that use P-to-P (peer-to-peer) communications has increased fivefold during the past 12 months, according to researchers...

Article | 4/06/2013 Cyberespionage campaign 'NetTraveler' siphoned data from hundreds of high-profile targets, researchers say

An ongoing cyberespionage campaign compromised over 350 high-profile victims from more than 40 countries over the past eight years, including politica...

Article | 4/06/2013 Possibly related DDoS attacks cause DNS hosting outages

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that could be related have in the past few days slammed the DNS servers of at least three providers of do...

Article | 3/06/2013 McAfee sees surge in spam, Koobface samples, MBR attacks

The first three months of 2013 have seen a surge in spam volume, as well as large numbers of samples of the Koobface social networking worm and master...

Article | 31/05/2013 Oracle reveals plans for Java security improvements

Oracle plans to make changes to strengthen the security of Java, including fixing its certificate revocation checking feature, preventing unsigned app...