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Google pays $381,000 in bug bounties 

Google pays $381,000 in bug bounties

Payments used to squash 1100 vulnerabilities since November 2010.
Crims make $3 million a year off Android botnet 

Crims make $3 million a year off Android botnet

Uni researcher finds world's biggest Android botnet.
DDoS attacks hit IPv6 

DDoS attacks hit IPv6

Hacktivists dominate DDoS.
Splunk updates Enterprise Security product 

Splunk updates Enterprise Security product

Launches version 2.0
Trojan leverages patched Microsoft Office flaw  

Trojan leverages patched Microsoft Office flaw

The exploit arrives as an email.
Standards body to certify PCI end-user experts 

Standards body to certify PCI end-user experts

Looks good on business cards.
Franchises make lucrative hack targets 

Franchises make lucrative hack targets

Annual report
Japanese Police arrest six over alleged virus scam 

Japanese Police arrest six over alleged virus scam

Suspected 1.1 million infections.
Lost USB contained info on 1000 school kids 

Lost USB contained info on 1000 school kids

The details of more than 1,000 school pupils were lost when a USB stick was misplaced by a member of East Lothian Council.
Symantec source code posted to BitTorrent 

Symantec source code posted to BitTorrent

Symantec warns of pending breaches.
Symantec dobbed in hacker during extortion attempt 

Symantec dobbed in hacker during extortion attempt

Police investigation continues.
Hackers claim Symantec would pay $50,000 extortion  

Hackers claim Symantec would pay $50,000 extortion

Source code hacker claims Symantec offered hush money.
Bug means iPhone thieves get iMessages, too 

Bug means iPhone thieves get iMessages, too

iMessages relayed to strangers' iPhones.
FBI call intercepted by Anonymous 

FBI call intercepted by Anonymous

Hackers intercept intelligence on Anonymous, LulzSec crackdown.
Haditha massacre emails exposed in hacker raid 

Haditha massacre emails exposed in hacker raid

Anonymous dumped 300 GB of communications lifted from the legal representatives of Frank Wuterich.
HTC phones reveal Wi-Fi logins 

HTC phones reveal Wi-Fi logins

Apps could swipe SSIDs, passwords.
Google employs Bouncer to cleanse Android malware 

Google employs Bouncer to cleanse Android malware

Claims malware app downloads had dropped 40 per cent.
Verisign hacked, data stolen 

Verisign hacked, data stolen

Security pros detected hacks in 2010, warned execs the following year.
Pentagon, NASA hacker TinKode arrested 

Pentagon, NASA hacker TinKode arrested

Romanian hacker accused of breaching government systems.
Research offers software salvation from AV friendly-fire 

Research offers software salvation from AV friendly-fire

Yet it is too underdeveloped to replace existing malware analysis.
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