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Article | 26/10/2009 Guardian jobs site falls victim to 'sophisticated' hack

A major U.K. newspaper has notified 500,000 people that details they posted to the newspaper's employment site may be in the hands of hackers.

Article | 24/10/2009 Mozilla releases Raindrop, a prototype messaging tool

Mozilla has launched a software project designed to let people better manage the ever more voluminous stream of messages coming from sources such as T...

Article | 23/10/2009 Fraudsters trying to capture bank cards at machines

If your cash card gets eaten by the automated-teller machine, it may not end up in the hands of a bank employee.

Article | 23/10/2009 Botnets contributing more than ever to click fraud

Networks of hacked computers are being used more than ever to click on advertisements, a scam known as click fraud that cheats search engines, publish...

Article | 22/10/2009 Experts see forecast worsen for cybercrime

Law enforcement agencies can count a few recent victories against cybercriminals, but agents say the battle against them isn't getting any easier.

Article | 22/10/2009 Coffins in the mail are a trick of the cybercrime trade

There's never been a better time to get involved in cybercrime.

Article | 21/10/2009 Researchers see Gumblar attacks surge again

Security researchers are seeing a resurgence of Gumblar, the name for a piece of malicious code that is spread by compromising legitimate but insecure...

Article | 21/10/2009 Zoho links project management tool with Google Apps

Zoho has integrated its online project management tool, along with some other features, with Google's Apps -- a linkage Zoho thinks will benefit users...

Article | 20/10/2009 Ericsson courts online publishers with mobile payments

Ericsson will soon launch a platform designed to let consumers buy online content such as news stories with the charge billed to their mobile phone ra...

Article | 20/10/2009 Mozilla unblocks Microsoft add-on for Firefox

Mozilla has now unblocked a Microsoft add-on thought to pose a danger due to a software vulnerability, but a second add-on remains blocked, the organi...

Article | 17/10/2009 Hacked Facebook apps lead to fake antivirus software

New applications are turning up on Facebook. Unfortunately, some of them are fake antivirus programs.

Article | 15/10/2009 Friendster partners on micropayments platform

Friendster will soon implement a micropayments platform for virtual gifts and games, seeking to bring in new revenue from southeast Asian countries wh...

Article | 16/10/2009 UK investigates online pricing, behavioral advertising

The U.K.'s competition authority launched two studies on Thursday that will probe behavioral-advertising pricing strategies and if some pricing practi...

Article | 15/10/2009 Delta Air Lines sued over alleged e-mail hacking

Delta Air Lines is being sued for allegedly hacking the e-mail account of a passenger rights advocate supporting legislation that would allow access t...

Article | 14/10/2009 Google to send detailed information about hacked Web sites

In an effort to promote the "general health of the Web," Google will send Webmasters snippets of malicious code in the hopes infected Web sites can be...