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Article | 11/01/2008 Facebook 'Secret Crush' not our fault, Zango CEO says

The 'Secret Crush' malicious widget that tricks Facebook users into downloading spyware is not something dreamt up by Zango, the adware company's CEO ...

Article | 11/01/2008 CES - Slouching toward Convergence 2.0

Gadgets have always taken center stage at the Consumer Electronics Show, but this year more than ever, even the coolest devices seem to be mere means ...

Article | 8/01/2008 Dutch company sells media player -- with a worm

A batch of digital media players sold by a Dutch importer over the holidays appear to have been infected with a nasty stocking stuffer -- a worm.

Article | 27/12/2007 Storm botnet drops strippers, switches to New Year's

Just a day after unleashing spam featuring Christmas strippers, the Storm botnet has switched gears and began duping users into infecting their own PC...

Article | 21/12/2007 Trojan bumps Google ads from Web pages

A security company has identified a Trojan horse program that replaces Google text advertisements on Web pages with ads from another source, depriving...

Article | 21/12/2007 Canadian security experts evaluate Google holes

Canadian analysts said the two Google-related hacks which surfaced recently should cause IT managers to look at employee Web surfing as a security haz...

Article | 21/12/2007 Dutch spyware makers fined Euro 1 million

The Dutch telecommunications regulator OPTA has fined the two companies behind the DollarRevenue adware program Euro 1 million (AU$1.66 million).

Article | 21/12/2007 'Bricking' bug threatens most HP, Compaq laptops

The hacker who posted an exploit last week that threatened a large swath of Hewlett-Packard Co.'s laptop lineup followed up Wednesday with new attack ...

Article | 20/12/2007 Orkut worm demonstrates vulnerability of service

Google's Orkut social networking site appeared to have been hit by a relatively harmless worm, but one that demonstrated the continuing vulnerability ...

Article | 20/12/2007 Microsoft offers work-around for IE security patch problems

Microsoft has offered a technical work-around for Internet Explorer users who have found their browsers crashing after installing a recent set of secu...

Article | 19/12/2007 Another month, another monster Apple security update

Apple on Monday matched the patch count of last month's massive update, fixing 41 vulnerabilities in Mac OS X and updating the beta of its Windows bro...

Article | 19/12/2007 Google Toolbar flaw opens door for phishers

Google is working to fix a bug in the Google Toolbar that could allow criminals to steal data or install malicious software on a system, a security re...

Article | 18/12/2007 Microsoft security update cripples IE

Microsoft confirmed Monday that it is investigating reports that a security update for Internet Explorer issued last week has crippled some users' abi...

Article | 18/12/2007 Symantec readies Norton 360 update

Symantec is just weeks away from shipping a test version of the next major update to its Norton 360 desktop security-and-backup software, with the pro...

Article | 11/12/2007 Cyber lovers warned beware of flirtatious robots

Internet users are being warned about a new malware trend involving the use of natural language dialogue systems that are already deployed within gami...

Article | 14/12/2007 After attacks, Apple fixes QuickTime bug

Apple has released a new security patch for QuickTime, its eighth update this year for the media player software.

Article | 13/12/2007 Cookie forgery tools pose danger, says researcher

A pair of open-source tools that sniff network traffic for cookies, then use the data to feed those purloined files back to Web sites, will let hacker...

Article | 12/12/2007 Microsoft posts Vista SP1 RC for download

Microsoft Wednesday opened the preview of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) to the general public, but it required users to go through an elaborate ...

Article | 14/12/2007 Botnet-controlled Trojan robbing online bank customers

A new variant on the "Prg Banking Trojan" malware discovered in June is stealing funds from commercial accounts in the United States, United Kingdom, ...

Article | 13/12/2007 Microsoft yanks free Vista, Office offer

Microsoft on Tuesday withdrew an offer of free copies of Windows Vista Ultimate and Office 2007 in exchange for consumers agreeing to install monitori...