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Mac malware rises in 2011 

Mac malware rises in 2011

In Applications - By Tom Brewster, 20 January 2012 8:05 AM
Trojan downloaders most prolific.
Oracle patches 78 vulnerabilities 

Oracle patches 78 vulnerabilities

In Applications - By Tom Brewster, 18 January 2012 3:13 PM
Sixteen products vulnerable to remote code execution.
Google profits from illegal Olympic ticket ads 

Google profits from illegal Olympic ticket ads

In Networks - By Tom Brewster, 13 January 2012 11:05 AM
Fraudsters trump legit retailers in AdWords.
Busy Adobe, Microsoft patch days planned 

Busy Adobe, Microsoft patch days planned

In Applications - By Tom Brewster, 11 January 2012 9:21 AM
Microsoft and Adobe plan busy January patch days
Malware poses as police 

Malware poses as police

In Applications - By Tom Brewster, 21 December 2011 7:27 AM
Victims held to ransom over porn, terrorism material.
Shipping sector ignorant of infosec 

Shipping sector ignorant of infosec

In Risk - By Tom Brewster, 21 December 2011 7:26 AM
Affects all levels of industry.
Kaspersky quits BSA, snubs US piracy bill 

Kaspersky quits BSA, snubs US piracy bill

In Applications - By Tom Brewster, 7 December 2011 10:11 AM
Calls bill "counter-productive".
How scary is RankMyHack.com? 

How scary is RankMyHack.com?

In Hackers - By Tom Brewster, 24 August 2011 2:29 PM
A visit to RankMyHack.com proves interesting, disappointing and terrifying all at once.
Oracle issues 'huge' patch update 

Oracle issues 'huge' patch update

In Applications - By Tom Brewster, 21 July 2011 11:57 AM
Fixes for 78 vulnerabilities in quarterly release.
Google to kill man-in-the-middle attacks 

Google to kill man-in-the-middle attacks

In Networks - By Tom Brewster, 20 June 2011 2:38 PM
Chromium updates.
Turkey makes 32 Anonymous arrests 

Turkey makes 32 Anonymous arrests

In Hackers - By Tom Brewster, 14 June 2011 7:50 AM
Follows three arrests in Spain.
AWS used to spread bank data malware 

AWS used to spread bank data malware

In Applications - By Tom Brewster, 8 June 2011 11:15 AM
A Kaspersky researcher spies some malware hosted on AWS targeting bank data.
Google fixes 27 bugs in Chrome 11 release 

Google fixes 27 bugs in Chrome 11 release

In Applications - By Tom Brewster, 29 April 2011 12:04 PM
Google hands out more than $A15,000 in bounties.
Poor PDF redaction torpedoes nuke sub secrets 

Poor PDF redaction torpedoes nuke sub secrets

In Web/client - By Tom Brewster, 19 April 2011 11:34 AM
Who needs Wikileaks when Defence ministry blunder posts sub operations online?
Chrome offers malicious download warnings 

Chrome offers malicious download warnings

In Applications - By Tom Brewster, 7 April 2011 11:23 AM
Google is trying out a new malicious download warnings feature in Chrome.
Bagle to succeed Rustock as spam king? 

Bagle to succeed Rustock as spam king?

In Hackers - By Tom Brewster, 30 March 2011 9:45 AM
There may be a new botnet spamming king in town in the form of Bagle.
Hackers hunting for corporate IP 

Hackers hunting for corporate IP

In Risk - By Tom Brewster, 29 March 2011 8:01 AM
As companies move more data off-premise, cyber criminals are increasingly looking at how to steal it.
IE9 a 'non-event' for most businesses 

IE9 a 'non-event' for most businesses

In Web/client - By Tom Brewster, 16 March 2011 2:24 PM
No Windows XP compatibility.
Zero-day IE flaw not in Microsoft Patch Tuesday 

Zero-day IE flaw not in Microsoft Patch Tuesday

In Applications - By Tom Brewster, 7 March 2011 11:50 AM
Vulnerability stays unpatched.
Energy firms unprepared for cyber attacks 

Energy firms unprepared for cyber attacks

In Hackers - By Tom Brewster, 24 February 2011 10:09 AM
Energy providers recognise the threats they face, but some are not responding with the tech to protect themselves, data shows.
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