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Avast false alarm hits Steam's weekend gamers

'I am sworn to carry your burdens'

6 Feb 17:23

Job-seeking Marriott hacker gets 30 months' porridge

Nabbed and jailed after Secret Service sting

6 Feb 13:03

Biz urged to blast DNSChanger Trojans before safety net comes down

8 March cutoff following Operation Ghost Click

3 Feb 18:28

Kelihos botnet BACK FROM THE DEAD

Bloodied spam-spewing zombie staggers in

2 Feb 14:04

Trojan smuggles out nicked blueprints as Windows Update data

Malware backdoors government-targeted kit 'using Adobe 0-days'

1 Feb 09:04

Virus-slingers abuse WordPress vulns, dose punters with exploit

Blogs also infected with information-harvesting Trojan

31 Jan 14:58

Sexy Girls Puzzle: Android Trojan or eager ad-slinger?

Researchers split on Counterclank's naughtiness

30 Jan 17:02

Blackhole crimeware kit drives web threat spike

Report: Conficker also still causing mayhem

26 Jan 15:27

Super-powered 'frankenmalware' strains detected in the wild

Virus-worm crossbreeds will trash systems faster than ever before

25 Jan 11:17

Sourcefire jumps into anti-malware market

Cyber-outbreak defence tech to shore up big biz

23 Jan 16:28

Facebook, experts spar over Ramnit worm contagion

Security boss says stalking site is free of bank account-raiding malware

19 Jan 10:21

Five Koobface botnet suspects named by New York Times

Trojan coins millions for its masters, say researchers

18 Jan 10:25

New stealthy botnet Trojan holds Facebook users hostage

Victims must pay $25 to get back into stalkerbase

18 Jan 08:29

Japanese boffins fear virus nicked spacecraft blueprints

Tokyo, we have a problem

17 Jan 12:03

Pro-Israel hackers threaten tit for tat after credit card leak

Saudi e-stores and Israeli diplomat's site nobbled in cyber-spat

10 Jan 16:29

German cops hacked in revenge for dad spying on daughter

Payback after officer used cyber-bug at home

10 Jan 11:49

Dammit Ramnit! Worm slurps 45,000 Facebook passwords

Bank-raid malware is latest nasty to infect social networks

5 Jan 14:33

Man convicted of murder gets retrial after virus eats transcripts

Refresh, restart

5 Jan 11:41

Kaspersky claims ‘smoking code’ linking Stuxnet and Duqu

Warns of three other unknown variants

30 Dec 00:54

Facebook scams now spread by dodgy browser plug-ins

Cybercrooks deploy new weapon to pollute profiles

22 Dec 10:01

Adobe kills two actively exploited bugs in Reader

Unscheduled update coming to Windows machine near you

17 Dec 00:02

'Android malware must be kind of thrilling for Microsoft'

QuotW Plus: 'Young people are fed up with iPhones'

16 Dec 10:44

Android malware victims offered free WinPhones by MS

'Haven't they suffered enough?'

13 Dec 15:45

Windows Phones message hub hit by killer SMS

Text of doom

reghardware 13 Dec 13:46

Espionage hack attack preys on chemical firms

Spotted in the wild: Nitro Part II

12 Dec 23:44

FOI request turns up Carrier IQ surprise

G-men slurping snooped smartphone data?

12 Dec 23:01

Kaspersky DLP spin-off buys German security firm

Cynapspro purchase to target small, medium-sized firms

12 Dec 20:24

Malicious apps infiltrate Google's Android Market

Bogus games purged after more than 10,000 downloads

12 Dec 20:16

Fake anti-virus victims in line for slice of $8m payout pie

Scareware swindlers' ill-gotten gains shared out by FTC

12 Dec 15:04

Web scam-busting trio thwarted by mystery DDoS rocket

Updated Backhanded compliment for fraud alert sites

12 Dec 12:03

Windows Defender Offline: For PCs too hosed to go online

In beta now

9 Dec 23:51

Chrome is the most secured browser - new study

Firefox finishes last in 3 browser security race

9 Dec 13:45

Download.com sorry for bundling Nmap with crapware

Open source freed from toolbar

9 Dec 13:04

Patchy app development security slammed

Eight out of 10 tested apps riddled with flaws

8 Dec 12:47

Why are Android anti-virus firms so slow to react on Carrier IQ?

Analysis Release of eradication 'detection' apps 1 month on raises questions

8 Dec 11:02

Oz rail company sold USB keys from lost property in auction

All your brollies, data sticks and lost scarves are belong to us...

7 Dec 11:01

Cnet slammed for wrapping Nmap downloads with cruddy toolbar

Babylon's Burning ...

6 Dec 15:42

Yahoo! 0-day! exploit! hijacks! status! updates!

Right now I'm: spamming my contacts with malware links

2 Dec 16:23

Northern Ireland's top cops 'hacked by NotW' - new claim

NI minister's PC also an alleged target

1 Dec 13:32

Duqu attackers: master coders, Linux rookies

Amateur goofs doom global wipe of C&C servers

1 Dec 02:01

Android glitch allows hackers to bug phone calls

Attack pierces defenses on devices from HTC, Samsung, Motorola, Google

30 Nov 21:10

Virus writers have girlfriends - official

And some don't even need inflating

15 Apr 2005, 16:27

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