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  Feds arrest masterminds behind 'Gozi' banking virus that infected thousands of computers

  By Amar Toor on January 24, 2013 07:20 am + 25 comments

  Federal prosecutors this week charged three Eastern European men with using the so-called Gozi virus Continue reading…

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  Samsung introduces first updates to patch Exynos processor software vulnerability in US

  By Dante D'Orazio on January 16, 2013 01:20 pm + 12 comments

  Samsung promised in December that it would address a serious security hole in some of its Continue reading…

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  'Red October' malware has been stealing government and industrial secrets for 5 years

  By Jeff Blagdon on January 15, 2013 01:22 am + 52 comments

  Kaspersky Labs reports that over the past five years, a co-ordinated malware campaign called "Rocra" Continue reading…

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  US Department of Homeland Security advises disabling Java following fresh zero-day vulnerability

  By Ben Kersey on January 12, 2013 07:16 am + 74 comments

  A new Trojan horse has been discovered that exploits a flaw found in Java, leaving computers running Continue reading…

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  TwitPic and some Twitter pages blocked behind Google's anti-malware curtain (update)

  By Kimber Streams on December 30, 2012 04:00 pm + 51 comments

  Popular Twitter-based photo service TwitPic is currently being blocked by Google's malware checker. Continue reading…

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  Samsung confirms malware exploit on Galaxy S III and others, 'to address it as quickly as possible'

  By Dante D'Orazio on December 19, 2012 10:02 am + 34 comments

  Following news this weekend that an exploit on phones like the Galaxy S III and Galaxy Note II could Continue reading…

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  Fake antivirus software scheme results in four year jail sentence

  By Kimber Streams on December 17, 2012 10:01 am + 14 comments

  Swedish credit card payment processor Mikael Sallnert has been sentenced to four years in prison and Continue reading…

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  Serious vulnerability reportedly leaves Samsung Galaxy S III and other devices wide open to malware

  By T.C. Sottek on December 16, 2012 03:12 pm + 265 comments

  User alephzain at xda-developers reported yesterday that a severe vulnerability in the Samsung Continue reading…

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  Apple updates its malware blacklist to protect Mac OS X users from SMSSend trojan

  By Kimber Streams on December 13, 2012 04:50 pm + 61 comments

  Apple has updated its Xprotect anti-malware blacklist tool to address a new trojan for OS X that s Continue reading…

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  Google's Android malware scanner detects only 15 percent of malicious code in test (update)

  By Chris Welch on December 10, 2012 01:36 pm + 135 comments

  With Android 4.2, Google has taken steps to address the lingering threat of malware on its mobile Continue reading…