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Article | 15/02/2012 Mozilla will ask all certificate authorities to revoke SSL-spying certificates

Mozilla plans to ask all certificate authorities to review their subordinate CA certificates and revoke those that could be used by companies to inspe...

Article | 14/02/2012 Whistleblowing site Cryptome.org infected with drive-by exploits

Cryptome.org, a website dedicated to disclosing confidential information, was compromised last week and was used to infect PCs running Internet Explor...

Article | 14/02/2012 Hackers probably stole Steam transaction data, Valve says

Valve has informed users of its Steam online game distribution platform that hackers have probably downloaded encrypted credit card transaction data f...

Article | 11/02/2012 Google expands the scope of its vulnerability reward programs to cover Chromium OS

Encouraged by the success of its Web and Chromium vulnerability reward programs, Google has decided to expand their scope in order to cover security i...

Article | 10/02/2012 Citadel banking malware is evolving and spreading rapidly, researchers warn

A computer Trojan that targets online banking users is evolving and spreading rapidly because its creators have adopted an open-source development mod...

Article | 9/02/2012 Spammers impersonate well-known developers to publish rogue apps on Android Market

Spammers are impersonating well-known Android software developers in order to distribute rogue apps through the official Android Market.

Article | 9/02/2012 Google Chrome will no longer check for revoked SSL certificates online

Google plans to remove online certificate revocation checks from future versions of Chrome, because it considers the process inefficient and slow.

Article | 9/02/2012 Trustwave admits issuing man-in-the-middle digital certificate, Mozilla debates punishment

Digital Certificate Authority (CA) Trustwave revealed that it has issued a digital certificate that enabled an unnamed private company to spy on SSL-p...

Article | 8/02/2012 Denial-of-service attacks are on the rise, anti-DDoS vendors report

Both the number and volume of distributed denial-of-service attacks are increasing, according to new reports from DDoS mitigation companies Prolexic a...

Article | 7/02/2012 Adobe launches sandboxed Flash Player for Firefox, hopes for fewer exploits

Adobe has released a beta version of Flash Player for Firefox, which has better protection against vulnerability exploits because of a new sandboxed a...

Article | 7/02/2012 Hundreds of DreamHost websites abused by spammers

Rogue PHP pages that redirect users to work-at-home scams have been added to hundreds of websites hosted at DreamHost following a security breach suff...

Article | 4/02/2012 PHP 5.3.10 fixes critical remote code execution vulnerability

The PHP Group <a href="http://www.php.net/archive/2012.php#id2012-02-02-1">released PHP 5.3.10</a> on Thursday in order to address a critical security...

Article | 3/02/2012 Symantec warns of Android Trojans that mutate with every download

Researchers from security vendor Symantec have identified a new premium-rate SMS Android Trojan horse that modifies its code every time it gets downlo...

Article | 3/02/2012 Ice IX banking Trojan steals info that enables fraudsters to hijack phone calls

New variants of the Ice IX online banking Trojan program are tricking victims into exposing their telephone account numbers so that fraudsters can div...

Article | 2/02/2012 Romanian authorities arrest man suspected of hacking into NASA and Pentagon servers

Romanian authorities have arrested a 20-year-old man from the city of Timisoara on Monday under accusations that he hacked into computer systems belon...