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Article | 25/01/2013 Two former Anonymous members jailed in UK for PayPal, Visa DDoS attacks

Three men were sentenced Thursday in the U.K. for their roles in a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks launched against financial a...

Article | 24/01/2013 Backdoor accounts found in networking and security appliances from Barracuda Networks

A variety of networking and security appliances from Barracuda Networks contain backdoor accounts that could allow attackers to log in remotely over S...

Article | 24/01/2013 Web server hackers install rogue Apache modules and SSH backdoors, researchers say

A group of hackers that are infecting Web servers with rogue Apache modules are also backdooring their Secure Shell (SSH) services in order to steal l...

Article | 23/01/2013 Mega responds to security concerns; promises some changes

Representatives of newly launched file-storage and sharing service Mega addressed some of the concerns raised by security researchers in recent days a...

Article | 23/01/2013 Securing SCADA systems still a piecemeal affair

ReVuln, a Malta-based security startup that specializes in vulnerability research, is working on a product that could allow companies to protect their...

Article | 22/01/2013 Twitter flaw gave third-party apps unauthorized access to private messages, researcher says

Users who signed into third-party Web or mobile applications using their Twitter accounts might have given those applications access to their Twitter ...

Article | 21/01/2013 Security researchers cripple Virut botnet

Many of the domain names used by a cybercriminal gang to control computers infected with the Virut malware were disabled last week in a coordinated ta...

Article | 18/01/2013 Researchers find critical vulnerabilities in Java 7 Update 11

Researchers from Security Explorations, a Poland-based vulnerability research firm, claim to have found two new vulnerabilities in Java 7 Update 11 th...

Article | 17/01/2013 Shylock banking malware updated to spread via Skype, researchers say

The Shylock home banking malware has been updated with new functionality that allows it to spread automatically using the popular Skype Voice-over-IP ...

Article | 17/01/2013 Foxit patches critical vulnerability in PDF viewer browser plug-in

Foxit released version 5.4.5 of its Foxit Reader PDF viewer plug-in on Thursday in order to address a critical remote code execution vulnerability tha...

Article | 16/01/2013 Adobe patches actively exploited ColdFusion vulnerabilities

Adobe released security patches for its ColdFusion application server on Tuesday, addressing four critical vulnerabilities that have been actively exp...

Article | 15/01/2013 6Scan launches free website vulnerability and malware scanning service

6Scan, a Web security startup based in Tel Aviv, Israel, launched a new service on Tuesday that can scan websites for security issues, like vulnerabil...

Article | 15/01/2013 Java exploit used in Red October cyberespionage attacks, researchers say

The hundreds of government, military and research organizations targeted in a large-scale cyberespionage operation dubbed Red October were not only at...

Article | 14/01/2013 Diplomatic and government agencies targeted in years-long cyberespionage operation

Unidentified attackers stole sensitive information from hundreds of diplomatic, government, research and military organizations from around the world ...

Article | 11/01/2013 Firefox getting built-in HTML5-based PDF viewer to improve security

A built-in PDF viewer component based on JavaScript and HTML5 Web technologies has been added to the beta version of Firefox 19, Mozilla said Friday.