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Article | 2/05/2013 D-Link publishes beta patches for IP camera vulnerabilities

D-Link has published beta patches for vulnerabilities in the firmware of many of its IP surveillance cameras, which could allow a hacker to intercept ...

Article | 2/05/2013 Goverment mulls data breach notification law, but details are secret

Australia's government is keeping a tight hold on proposed data breach notification legislation that could become law before a federal election in Sep...

Article | 2/05/2013 U.S. Department of Labor website infected with malware

A subdomain of a U.S. Department of Labor website appeared offline on Wednesday after an apparent hack that looks similar to a known China-based hacki...

Article | 1/05/2013 Aging networking protocols abused in DDoS attacks

Aging networking protocols still employed by nearly every Internet-connected device are being abused by hackers to conduct distributed denial-of-servi...

Article | 1/05/2013 Mozilla moves to stop spyware company from spoofing Firefox

Mozilla sent a cease-and-desist letter on Tuesday to a European company that created a piece of spyware masquerading itself as the Firefox browser.

Article | 30/04/2013 D-Link firmware flaws could allow IP video stream spying

If you run a bank and use an IP video camera from D-Link, you may want to pay attention to this.

Article | 29/04/2013 McAfee spots Adobe Reader PDF-tracking flaw

McAfee said it has found a vulnerability in Adobe Systems' Reader program that reveals when and where a PDF document is opened.

Article | 29/04/2013 Spanish police say DDoS suspect used a van as a mobile office

The man suspected of participating in a large DDoS attack on an antispam organization that caused intermittent Internet hiccups drove around Spain in ...

Article | 26/04/2013 Microsoft prevails in Xbox patent rift with Motorola Mobility

A US judge has ruled that Motorola Mobility is entitled to substantially less royalties than it wanted from Microsoft for the company's use of wirele...

Article | 25/04/2013 Mt. Gox delays plan to support virtual currency litecoin

Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox has temporarily shelved plans to support a competing currency, litecoin, the company said Thursday.

Article | 24/04/2013 FireEye finds Gh0stRAT cyberespionage campaigns continue

A well-known cyber-spying tool called Gh0st RAT is still being employed in stealthy malware attacks, according to a new report from security firm Fire...

Article | 24/04/2013 Australia charges man claiming to be LulzSec leader

Australia has charged a 24-year-old man who allegedly defaced a government website earlier this month and claims to be the leader of LulzSec, a rogue ...

Article | 23/04/2013 Malware hijacks Twitter accounts to send dangerous links

Twitter users in the Netherlands are being targeted by a piece of malware that hijacks their accounts, according to security vendor Trusteer.

Article | 22/04/2013 Largest bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox, 'throttles' trading to tame price swings

The largest bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox, is in a continuing battle with miscreants trying to manipulate the price of the virtual currency.

Article | 19/04/2013 Assange to Google's Schmidt: 'I don't use email'

Wikileaks' latest release is billed as a transcript of a "secret meeting," but it may more accurately be termed a promotion.