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There’s a new Mac Trojan dropper that uses a silent installation process and it also has the ability to establish backdoor access to infected machines. Security researchers at Intego found samples of the OSX/Crisis malware on the Virus Total website, but it has not yet been found in the wild.
Nearly one-third of all recalled medical devices contain computers, and half of those are recalled because of computer-related problems, according to a recent study.
The controversial Lieberman-Collins Cybersecurity Act has been scrapped and replaced by a new bill that online rights advocates still consider unnecessary, but which they also acknowledge is a vast improvement on the slew of other bills that have cropped up in recent months.
A hacker affiliated with a group called TeamGhostShell claims he hacked into a website servicing IT professionals seeking jobs on Wall Street, and in doing so compromised the personal information of thousands of job applicants, according to a ComputerWorld report.
Residents of Washington State will soon be able to access voter registration forms on the secretary of state’s official Facebook page, according to an Associated Press report.
DEFCON is inviting the kids back again this year for the second edition of DEFCON Kids, and this time, there’s zero-days involved.
Vulnerability Lab researchers discovered remotely exploitable cross site scripting vulnerabilities in Blackboard Mobile Learn v9.
The Chinese Government has “pervasive access” to 80 percent of the world’s communications even military-grade encryption no longer provides sufficient protection to sensitive data, a former Pentagon analyst warns.
In the first six months of 2012, 36 percent of targeted attacks focused on small businesses of fewer than 250 employees, and there were an average of 58 attacks per day, according to a new research report. At the end of 2011, small businesses were on the receiving end of only 18 percent of such attacks.
A new downloader uncovered by researchers at the Finnish security firm F-Secure is capable of sniffing out which operating system a user is running and infecting them with a custom malicious payload.
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