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Apple is distributing copies of its yet unreleased OS X 10.7 (Lion) operating system to a handful of security experts, including former Pwn2Own winner, Charlie Miller, who claims this is the first time Apple has taken such actions, according to a report from PC World.
Two U.K. teens and twenty-somethings received a collective prison sentence of fifteen years after administering the Ghost Market criminal forum, a meeting place and a classroom where nefarious individuals found anything from banking malware to methamphetamine recipes.
In February, the developing trend of phishing websites targeting universities in the U.S. and the U.K. became increasingly commonplace, and Symantec researchers isolated three exemplative cases.
UPDATED: A New Hampshire man has pleaded guilty in Federal Court to charges of conspiracy to commit computer fraud and failure to file income taxes stemming from a scam forcing telephone modems to call premium service numbers without their owner’s consent.
A Moldovan man alleged to be the mastermind behind an international fraud ring that targeted both private and corporate bank accounts has been arrested in Limerick, Ireland, in a joint operation by Gardai and customs officials.
Two new spyware programs, SW.SecurePhone and SW.Quieting, are targeting users of Android devices, mainly in the U.S., and could lead to serious data compromises, according to new research from NetQin Mobile.
Today’s Image of the Day comes from a film posted on YOUrban. The film is an exploration of the typically intangible landscape of WiFi signals. They built a WiFi measuring rod that displays strength of signal in a vertical alignment of light bars. As they moved the rod, they used long-exposure photography to light paint a cross-section of WiFi signal strength across various neighborhoods in Oslo where the extended nights of December create an optimal canvas for the light painting medium.
Marvin Walter Wimberly, Jr., a sixty one year-old programmer and game board designer has been charged by authorities in Florida with committing computer crimes with the intent to defraud after his employer, game maker Bob’s Space Racers (BSR) uncovered an elaborate scheme in which popular arcade games were programmed to self destruct.
Another ground breaking mobile device release, another embarrassing leak. Mobile device maker Research in Motion found itself responding to the publication of documentation for its much anticipated Blackberry Internet Service (BIS) 4.0 on Thursday.
Today’s image of the day comes from Brian Krebs’s blog, KrebsonSecurity. The image illustrates how Glavmed and other alleged players in the global spam game operate, and is part of a larger exposition of the Spamit operation that was reportedly shut down sometime last year as detailed by Krebs on his blog.
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