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Article | 21/12/2011 Altered Android application spreads a martyr's message
A popular Android application for Muslim users has been curiously hacked to commemorate the memory of a Tunisian produce vendor whose suicide kicked o...
Article | 9/12/2011 Wall Street Beat: Economy weighs on chip, PC sector
After several days of gains, tech stocks dropped Thursday as markets declined on disappointing news from Europe, where government officials are meetin...
Article | 7/12/2011 Lawmaker proposes cyberthreat sharing organization
A proposal in the U.S. House of Representatives would set up a new semi-independent organization allowing the U.S. government and private companies to...
Article | 7/12/2011 Symantec says spam levels fall to lowest in three years
Global spam fell to the lowest level in three years in a sign that spammers may be getting a better rate of return by hitting social-media websites in...
Article | 15/11/2011 Huawei buys out Symantec in joint venture
Huawei Technologies will buy out the rest of a joint venture with Symantec for US$530 million, the companies announced on Monday.
Article | 2/11/2011 Duqu exploits zero-day Windows kernel vulnerability to infect computers
Security researchers from the CrySyS laboratory in Hungary have located an installer for Duqu, the <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/arti...
Article | 26/10/2011 Spammers create their own URL shortening services
Spammers have created their own services to shorten URLs (uniform resource locators) in an apparent attempt to circumvent security measures in place a...
Article | 5/10/2011 iPad data LP: Security savior or strong-arm tactic
It's a late night, and you've fired up Facebook on your ACME.com company-owned iPad to post some bad news. "A reduction in workforce is going to happe...
Article | 29/09/2011 Catching up with mobile security threats
Development of enterprise mobile apps has been moving more slowly than development of consumer-facing apps, according to Gartner. One main reason is I...
Article | 27/09/2011 Scammers pretend to be friendly office printers
Hackers have found a new hook to trick people into opening malicious attachments: send emails that purport to come from office printers, many of which...
Article | 15/09/2011 Symantec cloud-based service seeks out 'rogue certificates'
Symantec this week introduced what it calls the Symantec Certificate Intelligence Center, a cloud-based service that works with an on-premises softwar...
Article | 15/09/2011 US agencies making progress on cybercrime, officials say
U.S. government agencies are getting better at sharing information about cyberattacks with private companies, but cybercrime shows no signs of slowing...
Article | 14/09/2011 Microsoft, Adobe unleash flood of security updates
Today is Patch Tuesday again. The ninth of the year already. Microsoft has released five new security bulletins, and Adobe has joined the party with s...
Article | 9/09/2011 Symantec responds to 'panic' around DigiNotar hack
Citing "panic" resulting from a hack on Dutch SSL certificate provider DigiNotar, Symantec has confirmed that its SSL Certificate Authorities VeriSign...
Article | 8/09/2011 Cybercrime costs rival those of illegal drug trafficking
Young males in emerging markets are the most likely to fall victim to cybercrime, whose total cost per year is approaching the scale of illegal drug t...