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Article | 14/02/2013 Targeted online attacks rise against Uyghur minority

Two security vendors have detected an uptick in targeted malicious software attacks against the Uyghur community, an ethnic group in western China tha...

Article | 14/02/2013 Spanish police break up €1 million ransomware crime ring

Spanish police say they've broken up a crime ring that extorted money from Internet users by accusing them of viewing child pornography or terrorist-r...

Article | 13/02/2013 Obama live stream unaffected despite Anonymous threats

Anonymous failed to disrupt the White House's online video stream of President Barack Obama's State of the Union address on Tuesday night.

Article | 12/02/2013 Groupon acquires MashLogic's Britely tool

Groupon has acquired MashLogic, a company based in California that makes a simple tool called Britely to capture and collate bits of information from ...

Article | 12/02/2013 Facebook sued by Dutch programmer's family over 'Like' button

Facebook is being sued by the family of a deceased Dutch programmer who held two patents dealing with sharing and updating social media content long b...

Article | 11/02/2013 Bit9 says attack likely targeted a narrow set of companies

Security vendor Bit9 promised to release limited details of a hack caused by a failure of the company to install the same security software on its own...

Article | 8/02/2013 Twitter search will now show tweets more than a week old

Twitter is modifying its search engine to include tweets more than a week old, a move it said will help users uncover better content.

Article | 7/02/2013 Microsoft, Symantec take down Bamital click-fraud botnet

Microsoft and Symantec have dismantled a botnet that took over millions of computers for criminal activities such as identity theft and click fraud.

Article | 5/02/2013 Google cleared by Australia's High Court in deceptive AdWords case

The High Court cleared Google on Wednesday of violating fair trade law by allowing companies to publish advertisements containing their competitors' n...

Article | 5/02/2013 iOS 6 untethered jailbreak released, Cydia app store flooded

Apple modders can rejoice: The latest jailbreak software for iOS 6 was released on Monday.

Article | 4/02/2013 US Department of Energy hack disclosed employee information

The U.S. Department of Energy said Monday that personal information about several hundred employees and contractors was stolen in a mid-January hack, ...

Article | 4/02/2013 NGOs warn of US lobbying efforts against European privacy legislation

Top U.S. officials will be warned in a letter Monday of an intense U.S. lobbying effort that seeks to weaken European privacy legislation.

Article | 4/02/2013 Dutch man sentenced in US to 12 years in credit card scam

A 22-year-old Dutch man who sold credit card details online was sentenced on Friday to 12 years in a US prison in a fraud prosecutors alleged caused m...

Article | 1/02/2013 French website hits stumbling block indexing Mega files

A French website collecting links to content stored on the Mega file-sharing service is experiencing trouble in what may be an effort by Kim Dotcom's ...

Article | 1/02/2013 Wall Street Journal says it too was hit by Chinese hackers

The Wall Street Journal said Thursday it had been targeted by hackers trying to monitor the newspaper's coverage of China, less than a day after a sim...