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Sony: Credit Data Risked in PlayStation Outage

LOS ANGELES -- Sony Corp. said Tuesday that the credit card data of PlayStation users around the world may have been stolen in a hack that forced it to shut down its PlayStation Network for the past week, disconnecting 77 million user accounts. Some players brushed off the breach as a common hazard of operating in a...

Malicious Code 'LizaMoon' Affects Millions [VIDEO]

Hackers in China Reportedly Hit Western Oil Companies

BEIJING -- An American security firm says hackers working from China have broken into computers of oil companies in the United States, Taiwan and other countries. The report Thursday by McAfee says hackers stole sensitive information about operations, finances and bidding for oil fields. The report did not identify the...

Feds Seek Computer Firewall to Block WikiLeaks 'Pollution'

Among the more striking aspects of the still unfolding WikiLeaks controversy are government demands that their workers -- and even federal contractors -- refrain from reading leaked classified documents, even though they are in the public domain. Now, according to one network security company, the government wants to...

What is OpenBSD, and Did the FBI Really Tamper With It?

(Dec. 17) -- Is there anyone on the Internet who isn't either spying or being spied upon? The open-source community is up in arms this week over allegations that, a decade ago, the FBI bribed the developers of operating system OpenBSD to insert a number of backdoors in the system's code. Unless you are a tech wizard...

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Bluetoothache: Super-Weapon 'Flame' Could Track And Steal Data Via Bluetooh

The online 'super-weapon' known as Flame was able to control Bluetooth chips on infected computers, enabling it to track nearby devices - and potentially locate high-priority targets, according to a security firm.

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Identity Theft Still on the Rise

For the 12th year in a row, identity theft complaints top the list of consumer complaints received by the Federal Trade Commission.

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Creating Undetectable Computer Virus 'Surprisingly Simple'

Since the Flame computer virus was discovered earlier this week, much attention has been focused on the cleverness of this piece of malicious code.

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âWalking Around Naked On The Internet': McAfee Says 17% Of PCs Globally Lack Malware Protection

Some eye-opening stats out today from McAfee , the Intel-owned IT security company: a study of 28 million computers in 24 countries has found that 17 percent of all PCs do not have any form of security at all on them against viruses, worms, spyware and other Internet malware â a transgression that McAfee compares to...

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'Flame' Malware Spying On Middle East Computer Users, Researchers Say

For at least the past two years, a large, complex piece of malicious software has infected hundreds of computers across the Middle East, stealing victims' data and spying on their online activities, security researchers have discovered.

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06/02/12 WHMCS Fixes SQL Injection, Exploit Sold for $6,000 on... Source: Softpedia News On May 29, WHMCS released a security patch to address an SQL Injection vulnerability that affected the billing and support software.
06/02/12 Unprotected sects: Church websites more likely to have... Source: Andover Townsman - Andover MA As with herpes, one of the peripheral embarrassments of contracting a computer virus is that everyone has a pretty good idea of what you were up to when you got it.
06/02/12 Obama ordered Stuxnet cyber attack on Iran? Source: Today.Az A US daily has revealed that President Barack Obama secretly ordered a cyber attack with the Stuxnet computer virus against Iran to sabotage the country's nuclear energy program.
06/02/12 Private Jet Central Expands its I-Jet Card Program... Source: PRWeb London, UK (PRWEB) June 02, 2012 The launch of the I-Jet Card, the latest innovation from Private Jet Central has been a spectacular success.
06/02/12 University of Cambridge conducts password study Source: PanArmenian.net The largest-ever study on user-selected password security shows that no matter how old the users are or what language they speak, their passwords are unsuccessful.