Reports in Der Spiegel suggest that the Israeli air strike against claimed nuclear facilities in Syria were targeted after Mossad successfully hacked a laptop left in a London hotel bedroom.
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Researchers at Symantec find a Trojan that uses Facebook to communicate with a command and control server.
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'Opachki' Trojan hijacks links for cash and deletes Zeus malware from the infected machine.
Researchers at Symantec find a Trojan that uses Facebook to communicate with a command and control server.
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Scam email messages being generated at a rate of 1,000 per minute.
As Apple computers grow increasingly popular and enjoy increased market share, the Mac world offers the next great frontier for cybercriminals. Exploits targeting Apple computers were definitely on the uptick in 2009.
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One of the most notorious phishing scams lured Halloween fans into downloading a dancing skeleton. The subject lines sounded fun, but once dancing skeleton hit the desktop life was not sweet. Malicious botnets invaded computers and snatched personal information faster than you can say "Trick or Trojan."
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'URLZone' calculates how much money to steal from a victim's account without raising suspicion.
In a Sept. 28 e-mail sent to customers, PayChoice indicated that the hackers had obtained e-mail addresses as well as login IDs and at least parts of passwords for account holders using the OnlineEmployer.com web site.