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After a string of controversies over promiscuous data sharing and account takeovers, social networking giant, Facebook, has released a 13 page guide for users who want to secure their Facebook account. Among other things, the 700 million strong social network is warning its users to only “Friend” people they know.
Researchers at Symantec discovered that an outdated version of a controversial Android app called ‘Dog Wars’ is infected with a trojan apparently placed by animal rights activists offended by the game’s premise.
Samsung Mobile has hired the prolific and well-known Android hacker, Steve Kondik, perhaps better known by his Web-persona, Cyanogen.
In their latest effort, the online-collective Anonymous breached the Website of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) System.
LinkedIn is responding to user complaints about its new social advertising model, which asked its 100 million users to ‘opt-out’ if they didn’t want advertisers to pair their message with content – including photographs – from users’ profiles.
Scareware and Rogue AV are back with a vengeance in 2011, after receding in 2010 according to Kaspersky Lab’s latest threat evolution report.
Apple released an update today for its built-in, malware protection platform, XProtect, in response to the emergence of Mac-targeting trojan that hijacks Google searches, according to an article posted on Softpedia.
Microsoft shipped 13 bulletins in the August edition of Patch Tuesday, including two critical fixes for the Internet Explorer Browser and for Windows DNS Server that the company warns could enable remote attacks.
A Norwegian hacker collective that allegedly gained access to the email accounts of Anders Behring Breivik, the confessed perpetrator of killing spree that took the lives of seventy-seven individuals, may have connections to Anonymous, according to a local journalist who has had contact with the group.
DEFCON, the cash-only, aliases-welcome hacker conference took place in the moral vacuum of Las Vegas, Nevada this weekend, as it has every Summer since 1993. This year there was no shortage of controversial presentations and panel discussions. If you were short the airfare, the $150 entrance fee, gave up on the three hour line-ageddon to pick up your badge or – admit it – your boss (or spouse) just wouldn’t let you go, have no fear. The show was crawling with media, including computer security reporters and even the mainstream media (CBS and NPR were there). Here’s our round up of some of the major stories to come out of this year’s DEFCON conference.
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