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Article | 25/08/2011 Researchers see improvements in breakaway Zeus malware
A dangerous piece of malicious code responsible for stealing money from online bank accounts is being updated with new functions after its source code...
Article | 18/08/2011 Google highlights trouble in detecting web-based malware
Google issued a new study on Wednesday detailing how it is becoming more difficult to identify malicious websites and attacks, with antivirus software...
Article | 6/08/2011 Has your company been infiltrated by the Shady Rat hack?
When McAfee released its <a href="http://www.mcafee.com/us/resources/white-papers/wp-operation-shady-rat.pdf">Operation Shady Rat hacking report</a> e...
Article | 5/08/2011 As targeted e-mail attacks proliferate, companies wince
The strange e-mails arrived in executives' inboxes around the same time that the Australian oil company was negotiating a deal with a Chinese energy c...
Article | 4/08/2011 Metasploit 4.0 sets the stage for mass penetration testing
Security product provider Rapid7 has updated its widely used open-source Metasploit exploitation framework, expanding the software so it supports ente...
Article | 4/08/2011 US warns Anonymous, LulzSec could up their game
Hacker groups such as Anonymous and Lulz Security may need to be monitored more closely in the event they are assisted by other hackers with higher sk...
Article | 3/08/2011 McAfee: Hackers compromised 72 organizations since 2006
Security vendor McAfee published a detailed report on Tuesday about a hacking group that penetrated 72 companies and organizations in 14 countries sin...
Article | 2/08/2011 Zero-day vulnerability found in a Wordpress image utility
Hackers are exploiting a problem with an image-resizing utility called TimThumb that is widely used in many themes for the blogging platform WordPress...
Article | 1/08/2011 Anonymous suspect 'Topiary' charged over DDOS attacks
The 18-year-old teenager identified by police as the spokesman for the hacking groups Anonymous and Lulz Security was charged on Sunday with five offe...
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 | 27/07/2011 SpyEye Trojan morphs to defeat online banking defenses
Banks are facing more trouble from SpyEye, a piece of malicious software that steals money from people's online bank accounts, according to new resear...
Article | 22/07/2011 Anonymous releases restricted NATO document
The hacking collective Anonymous released a document on Thursday marked "restricted" from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Article | 20/07/2011 Internet activist charged with hacking into MIT network
The cofounder of online news site Reddit has been charged with computer intrusion, fraud and data theft for allegedly stealing 4.8 million documents f...
Article | 15/07/2011 Researchers finds dangerous vulnerability in Skype
A security consultant has notified Skype of a cross-site scripting flaw that could be used to change the password on someone's account, according to d...
Article | 8/07/2011 UK's News of the World closes after phone hacking scandal
News Corp. will close its weekly U.K. newspaper News of the World amid allegations that the tabloid hacked into the mobile voicemail accounts of celeb...