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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...

Article | 31/01/2013 Hackers unveil latest Apple iOS 6 jailbreak website

Apple software hackers unveiled a website late Wednesday where the latest untethered jailbreak is expected to be released soon.

Article | 30/01/2013 File-sharing site Mega fields 150 copyright infringement warnings

The file-sharing service Mega has fielded 150 copyright warnings since its recent launch as founder Kim Dotcom grows a risky new business while under ...

Article | 29/01/2013 Forrester predicts slower IT spending growth for Asia-Pacific

IT spending growth in the Asia-Pacific region is expected to slow as countries including China and India grapple with emerging economic issues as a re...

Article | 29/01/2013 Phone unlocking services face new legal risk, EFF says

U.S. phone unlocking services face the biggest legal risk from mobile operators keen to enforce a change in copyright law that now makes it illegal to...

Article | 28/01/2013 Privacy messaging tool Wickr adds Dropbox integration

Wickr, a mobile messaging application that electronically shreds communications, has added the ability to send documents from Dropbox, leave video mes...

Article | 23/01/2013 Reporters Without Borders website abused in malware campaign

The website for Reporters Without Borders was booby-trapped to deliver malicious software using the latest Java and Internet Explorer vulnerabilities,...

Article | 23/01/2013 Cuba's Internet speeds up as undersea cable is activated

Cuba's Internet speeds increased on Tuesday, and the country appears to be routing more traffic through a previously dormant undersea fiber-optic cabl...