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Article | 7/10/2011 SpyEye steals banking codes by sending them to wrong phone
Researchers from browser security vendor Trusteer have identified a new variant of the SpyEye financial Trojan that tricks online banking users into c...
Article | 5/10/2011 XSS web attacks could live forever, researcher warns
Websites that accidentally distribute rogue code could find it harder to undo the damage if attackers exploit widespread browser support for HTML5 loc...
Article | 12/09/2011 GlobalSign plans to reopen Tuesday despite web server hack
GlobalSign expects to bring its certificate-issuing systems back online on Monday, and resume business Tuesday, it said over the weekend. The U.S. cer...
Article | 29/07/2011 Google's two-step authentication goes worldwide
Google <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/2-step-verification-stay-safe-around.html">said Thursday</a> that it has rolled out its two-ste...
Article | 27/07/2011 Passwords in Mac OS X can be pilfered with new tool
A company that makes password recovery tools has released one that can snatch passwords from a locked or sleeping Macintosh running Mac OS X Lion by p...
Article | 22/07/2011 T-Mobile securing Android phones with Good
T-Mobile is hoping to make it easier for businesses to use Android phones by reselling secure e-mail services from Good Technology.
Article | 19/07/2011 UK operators say voicemail weaknesses fixed
As the phone hacking saga continues to grip the U.K., mobile operators contend that spying on someone's voicemail messages wouldn't be possible today ...
Article | 26/06/2011 LulzSec calls it quits after 50 days of 'mayhem'
The computer hacking group LulzSec said Saturday it had ended its campaign of cyberassaults on government and corporate websites and that it was time ...
Article | 21/06/2011 Dropbox left document storage accounts open for four hours
Online storage service Dropbox accidentally turned off password authentication for its 25 million users for four hours on Monday -- although "much les...
Article | 18/05/2011 Israel, Iran announce strategies to counter cyberthreats
Israel is setting up a national task force to expand the state's ability to defend vital infrastructure networks from cyberterrorist attacks by foreig...
Article | 13/05/2011 Facebook tightens log-in verification
To help its hundreds of millions of users prevent unauthorized access to their accounts, Facebook has added an optional verification step to its log-i...
Article | 16/04/2011 White House releases trusted Internet ID plan
The U.S. government will coordinate private-sector efforts to create trusted identification systems for the Internet, with the goal of giving consumer...
Article | 29/03/2011 Security manager's journal: Helping in-house developers
This week I found out that my company is developing software in-house. Until now I hadn't known that we were a software development shop, but I guess ...
Article | 25/03/2011 European Commission hit by serious cyberattack
The European Commission, including the body's diplomatic arm, has been hit by what officials said Thursday was a serious cyberattack.
Article | 19/03/2011 After RSA breach, are SecurID tokens in jeopardy?
The intrusion by hackers of security giant RSA, a unit of EMC, has left customers and analysts wondering if it is still safe to use millions of the on...