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  Malware attack on Iran's oil ministry: infrastructure fine, but websites taken offline

  By Jeff Blagdon on April 24, 2012 12:34 am + 13 comments

  Iran's Ministry of Petroleum and a number of affiliated companies were hit with a malware attack on Continue reading…

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  FBI says 360,000 DNSChanger-infected computers may lose web access in July

  By Adi Robertson on April 23, 2012 04:51 pm + 29 comments

  The FBI is preparing to shut down servers that have allowed users whose computers are infected with Continue reading…

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  India overtakes US to become top spam purveyor in early 2012

  By Adi Robertson on April 23, 2012 01:03 pm + 7 comments

  According to research by IT security company Sophos, India is now the leading source of junk email. Continue reading…

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  The green scare: just how safe is Android?

  By T.C. Sottek on April 18, 2012 04:20 pm + 132 comments

  Yesterday, Symantec reported that it had identified 29 malware-loaded apps that "caught the Continue reading…

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  Flashback trojan still infecting about 140,000 Macs, Symantec says

  By Amar Toor on April 18, 2012 12:50 am + 46 comments

  Apple has already issued a patch for the Java vulnerability that affected more than 600,000 OS X Continue reading…

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  Apple updates OS X Java to remove Flashback malware

  By Nilay Patel on April 12, 2012 05:10 pm + 54 comments

  As promised, Apple just issued an update to Java for OS X that removes the Flashback malware which Continue reading…

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  Hotel caught injecting advertising into webpages on 'complimentary' Wi-Fi network

  By Sean Hollister on April 7, 2012 08:56 am + 79 comments

  The next time you find a hotel room with free Wi-Fi, you might not want to celebrate right away: Continue reading…

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  Second Kelihos botnet downed, 116,000 machines freed

  By Tom Warren on March 29, 2012 07:14 am + 9 comments

  Security experts from Kaspersky Lab, CrowdStrike Intelligence Team, the Honeynet Project, and Dell Continue reading…

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  NSA Director blames China for a 'great deal' of military-related data theft

  By Jamie Keene on March 28, 2012 06:51 am + 15 comments

  National Security Agency director General Keith Alexander has revealed that the attack against Continue reading…

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  Pirate Bay links blocked from Windows Live Messenger due to 'malicious' content

  By Nathan Ingraham on March 26, 2012 01:54 pm + 30 comments

  We learned yesterday that Microsoft had started blocking links to The Pirate Bay in Windows Live Continue reading…