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Article | 26/01/2011 Twitter blocked in Egypt after political unrest
Twitter was blocked in Egypt on Tuesday as the country witnessed a large protest against the rule of President Hosni Mubarak.
Article | 25/01/2011 Carberp banking malware upgrades itself
A piece of banking malware that researchers have been keeping an eye on is adding more sophisticated capabilities to stay hidden on victims' PCs, acco...
Article | 24/01/2011 Mozilla to offer new feature for improved online privacy
Mozilla, the developer of the Firefox browser, is working a feature that will allow users to opt-out of online behavioral advertising.
Article | 22/01/2011 Got $500? You can buy a hacked U.S. military website
If you're a criminal looking for full control of the Web used by the U.S. Army's Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM), you can get it for just u...
Article | 21/01/2011 Ellsberg: With Wikileaks, Google, Facebook must take a stand
The Silicon Valley companies that store our personal data have a growing responsibility to protect it from government snooping, according to Daniel El...
Article | 21/01/2011 We'll pay by smartphone, but let's not pay for dumb security
It's a new dawn, people! As of today, you can walk into just about any Starbucks store and pay for your latte using nothing other than a (free) iPhone...
Article | 21/01/2011 Trapster hack may have exposed millions of iPhone, Android passwords
Millions of e-mail addresses and passwords may have been stolen from Trapster, an online service that warns iPhone, Android and BlackBerry owners of p...
Article | 21/01/2011 Soundminer Android malware listens, then steals, phone data
Researchers have developed a low-profile Trojan horse program for Google's Android mobile OS that steals data in a way that is unlikely to be detected...
Article | 20/01/2011 Researcher releases attack code for just-patched Windows bug
Attack code for a Windows vulnerability that Microsoft patched last week was released by a researcher one day after the company fixed the flaw.
Article | 19/01/2011 iPad hackers' chats were turned in by secret source
The US Government's case against two men charged with hacking into AT&T's website to steal e-mail addresses from about 120,000 iPad users got a boost ...
Article | 19/01/2011 Feds charge professed White Hat hackers in breach of AT&T iPad customer data
Professed White Hat hackers face federal criminal charges for grabbing the e-mail addresses of 114,000 AT&T 3G customers who use iPads.
Article | 19/01/2011 Black Hat puts 'offense' on its cyber agenda
ARLINGTON, Va. -- The ability of the Stuxnet worm to damage Iran's nuclear complex demonstrated, in a very public way, the capabilities of cyber weapo...
Article | 19/01/2011 The PC virus turns 25
Happy anniversary Basit and Amjad! Twenty-five years ago this month, the Alvi brothers of Lahore, Pakistan, gave the world the Brain Virus, the first ...
Article | 19/01/2011 US official defends domain seizures for copyright violations
The November seizures of more than 80 domain names by two U.S. government agencies were justified and necessary to project U.S. copyright holders, sai...
Article | 19/01/2011 Facebook cuts developer access to user numbers, addresses
Facebook has disabled a new capability it introduced several days ago that let users share their cell phone numbers and physical addresses with develo...
Article | 18/01/2011 ACMA issues warning on scams in wake of floods
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) today issued a warning about scammers trying to take advantage of Australians' generosity in ...
Article | 18/01/2011 Facebook gives your home address to developers
Your home address and phone number are now part of the information dump third-party developers can obtain through Facebook-powered Website logins and ...
Article | 18/01/2011 Israel tested Stuxnet worm, says report
The Stuxnet worm that disrupted Iran's ability to enrich uranium into bomb-grade nuclear fuel was jointly created by Israel and the U.S., the New York...
Article | 18/01/2011 Internet 'kill switch' could cause chaos, OECD report warns
A proposed US Internet 'kill switch' to be used in the event of a cyberwar could actually cause more problems that it would prevent, a new report comm...
Article | 17/01/2011 Coming soon: A new way to hack into your smartphone
More than three years after the iPhone was first hacked, computer security experts think they've found a whole new way to break into mobile phones -- ...

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