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How zombie LulzSec exposed privates' love lives with PHP hack

Single soldiers site swallowed surprise load

24 May 16:28

CompSci eggheads to map Android malware genome

Aim for taxonomy of droid ills

23 May 16:18

Fake Facebook pull-down tricks social climbers into swallowing vile load

Malware-slingers understand your need to network

22 May 13:17

Backdoor sniffed in ZTE's US Android smartphones

Dial R for Root

21 May 19:04

Facebook and IM apps abused to spread social-climbing worm

Points you to a .zip archive full of badness

21 May 08:38

Call of Duty hacker behind bars after college burglary

18 months' porridge for banking malware-spreader

18 May 16:34

Seeing ads on Wikipedia? Then you're infected

Click fraudsters are milking you for cash

17 May 17:01

Vixie warns: DNS Changer ‘blackouts’ inevitable

Father of BIND fears ISP crisis in July

17 May 00:36

Apple scrubs old Leopards of Flashback Trojan infections

Security airdrop saves legacy fanbois from nasties

15 May 11:22

Adobe backs down, patches critical Photoshop CS5 hole

Paid upgrade fix row leaves a nasty taste

14 May 12:59

Amnesty International UK site flung Gh0st RAT at surfers after hack

Do-gooders done for

11 May 16:28

PHP devs lob second patch at super-critical CGI bug

If at first you don't succeed, compile, compile again

9 May 13:02

Jetting off abroad? Pack protection ... for your Wi-Fi

Feds warn of malware attacks on hotel net surfers

9 May 10:01

Zombie PCs exploit hookup site in 4Square-for-malware scam

Ill-used 'adult' dating site riddled with infection

8 May 12:38

GCHQ's spy death riddle shines light on UK hacker war

Was Gareth Williams spotted at Blackhat or Defcon?

3 May 11:14

Kaspersky: Apple security is like Microsoft's in 2002

Get ready for the era of the sick Mac

2 May 14:27

Infosec and B-Sides: Security biz exhibitions face off in London

Show diary Contrasting picture of infosecurity tech

26 Apr 13:26

Dr. Web disputes Flashback Mac Trojan bot army estimates

Much bigger than Symantec says

25 Apr 18:43

Iran cuts off oil plants hit by mystery data-destroying virus

Lockdown as officials drill into malware riddle

25 Apr 12:44

Hackers now pick tools from script kiddies' toybox – report

Infosec 2012 Automated attack weapons help blackhats spread the pain

24 Apr 16:02

Fake Instagram app slings SMS Trojan onto Android gear

Russian site rather than irate Apple fanboi fingered

19 Apr 13:40

Trojan sneaks into hotel, slurps guests' credit card data

No reservation required

19 Apr 07:27

Chinese and US military square off for cyber war games

Tensions mount as APT attacks continue

18 Apr 08:58

Apple finally deploys Mac Flashback Trojan terminator

Zombie OS X bot army drops to 270,000 strong

13 Apr 14:01

New fake anti-virus shakes down frightened file-sharers

Scareware brands Windows Registry Editor a smut 'tool', punts 'safe' torrents

13 Apr 07:27

Apple trails behind world+Microsoft in 'Flashback' malware debacle

Finally pulls head from sand, pledges patch

11 Apr 15:56

Malware-infected flash cards shipped out with HP switches

Vendor fields ProCurveBall

11 Apr 15:26

Microsoft seals up Windows zero-day flaw in April Patch Tuesday

Kill Bit for every MS boy and girl

11 Apr 10:28

New ZeuS-based Trojan leeches cash from cloud-based payrolls

Adds phishing mules to employee roster

11 Apr 09:39

550,000-strong army of Mac zombies spreads across world

Infected machines, not blank-eyed shuffling fanbois

5 Apr 13:52

Fake cop Trojan 'detects offensive materials' on PCs, demands money

Crooks exploit those embarrassing files we all have

5 Apr 11:18

Apple plugs Java hole after Flashback Trojan intrusion

6 weeks after Microsoft machines are patched...

4 Apr 16:17

Tibetan activists' Macs targeted using trojan-laden MS Office files

Backdoors popped by unusually sophisticated methods

2 Apr 10:43

Kelihos zombies erupt from mass graves after botnet massacre

Pumping spam, entering backdoors again almost right away

29 Mar 15:29

Ukrainian cops silence old-skool virus tinkerers' playground

'It's not a game any more, chummy'

29 Mar 13:29

Staggering Kelihos zombie army smacked down AGAIN

Resurrected spam-spewing network sinkholed by security bods

28 Mar 14:52

Microsoft censors Pirate Bay links from IM

Malware blamed – but other torrent links still allowed

26 Mar 19:57

Microsoft takes down ZeuS botnets

Disrupted ... but not dismantled

26 Mar 10:03

Pro-China hackers target Tibetan activists with malware

Spammers in the service of the People's Republic

23 Mar 19:01

Survey scammers fling spam at Pinterest punters

Black Hat Tools offers spring bot collection...

23 Mar 17:44

Hackers booby-trap WordPress site with botnet-weaving Trojan

Crooks lure punters in with LinkedIn lies

23 Mar 16:28

Virus writers have girlfriends - official

And some don't even need inflating

15 Apr 2005, 16:27

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