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What Adobe could learn from The Flying Wallendas
Do security safety nets make Reader less safe?
Analysis The Flying Wallendas were a legendary circus troupe that performed death-defying acts from a high wire without the use of nets or safety devices of any kind. Even when they performed their world-famous four-person, three-level pyramid act 50 feet in the air, patriarch Karl Wallenda steadfastly eschewed nets out of a belief they sapped the aerialists' concentration.…
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Bollywood 'recruits DDoS hired guns to fight movie pirates'
There's totally a movie in that
An Indian firm claims it was hired to carry out denial of service attacks against film download and torrent tracker websites at the behest of Bollywood movie distributors in India.…
Second SMS Android Trojan targets smut-seeking Russians
Someone's gonna be screwed alright
A second SMS-sending Trojan targeting smartphones running on the Android operating system has appeared, being distributed via Russian-language sites offering pornographic video clips.…
$9m RBS WorldPay hack mastermind avoids jail
Extradition unlikely
The Russian hacker at the centre of a massive $9.4m fraud against RBS WorldPay has avoided jail after he agreed to turn informant on his fellow cybercriminals and pay compensation to the bank.…
MS preps 9 bulletins for September Patch Tuesday
Four critical
Microsoft is planning another busy Patch Tuesday this month - with nine bulletins that tackle a total of 13 vulnerabilities ready for delivery next Tuesday (14 September).…
Email worm wants to party like it's 1999 (almost)
'Here you go'
A fast-moving email worm that began spreading on Thursday has been able to affect hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide, anti-virus provider Symantec warned.…
Google Instant a potential bonanza for search scams
You type it in here, and it comes out there
Security watchers are concerned that scareware scammers may quickly adapt to the introduction of real-time search technology from Google to develop even more potent search engine poisoning attacks.…
PayPal update email 'violates own anti-phishing advice'
Oopsie
PayPal UK has sent out an updated user agreement email to its customers that manages to violate its own tips on how to avoid phishing scams. The payments process outfit disputes the accusation.…
Google slaps malware warning on Radio 3 website
Someone's got to be Brahms and Lizt
Updated Google is warning surfers visiting BBC Radio 3's website that the classical music domain is a security risk.…
Symantec HackIsWack site still open to rickrolling
We know the game and we're gonna play it
Updated Symantec's hapless HackIsWack cybercrime rap competition site can still be rickrolled, despite assurances to the contrary from the security giant.…
YouGov's voluntary stalkware unpicked
Tracking software 'potentially unwanted'
YouGov recently confronted survey participants with an odd offer to download software that would track users' surfing habits.…
Koran-burning 'pastor' loses website
Dove World Outreach Center is out of reach
Red-nosed pastor Terry Jones, who plans to burn copies of the Koran and Jewish text the Talmud at the weekend, has either had his website hacked or his ISP has pulled the plug.…
Microsoft wins court order crushing mighty spam botnet
Waledac's 276 domain names seized
A federal magistrate judge has recommended that Microsoft be given ownership of 276 internet addresses used to control “Waledac,” a massive botnet that the software company has been working to bring down.…
Adobe Reader 0day under active attack
No mitigations for click-and-get-hacked exploit
Researchers have uncovered sophisticated attack code circulating on the net that exploits a critical vulnerability in the most recent version of Adobe Reader.…
Safari and Firefox updates plug critical holes
Drive-by download guard
Tuesday marked a busy day for alternative browser security updates with patches from both Apple and Mozilla.…
UK hacker fined for personnel database mischief
Email salary details to everyone ploy foiled
A court has ordered a UK hacker to pay compensation after he used a purloined laptop to hack into his ex-employer's personnel database.…
Privacy watchdogs challenge laptop seizures at US borders
6,671 travelers searched (so far)
Privacy advocates have sued the Obama administration over its practice of seizing laptops, cell phones, and other devices at US borders and copying their contents even when the owner isn't suspected of wrongdoing.…
Twitter bug creates account hijacking peril
One-click vuln 'ridiculously easy to attack'
Twitter has been bitten by a hard-to-kill web-application bug that's being actively exploited to steal users' authentication credentials, a security expert said Tuesday.…
Scammers seize on tax rebates as phishing lure
Greedy sprats
Fraudsters have wasted no time jumping on news of a tax mix-up in the UK as a hook for scams.…
Spammers exploit another Facebook flaw
Share this
Spammers have taken advantage of a vulnerability in Facebook to spread auto-replicating links, a trick that makes it possible to spread crud without using social engineering.…
TechCrunch purges Zeus malware attack
Oh, God
TechCrunch Europe has cleaned up its website following the discovery of malicious code that left visiting surfers exposed to infection by a variant of the infamous Zeus banking Trojan.…
MS probes mystery IE bug
URL shortening shenanigans
Microsoft is investigating reports of a new bug in Internet Explorer.…
Symantec finally secures HackIsWack
It's such a bungle, sometimes, it makes you wonder...
Symantec has belatedly secured its laughable HackIsWack competition website.…
iPad scammers hack Kirstie Allsopp's Twitter
Posh property presenter pwned
iPad scammers managed to reach a huge potential audience last weekend after they took over a Twitter profile maintained by British TV presenter Kirstie Allsopp.…
Browser security warning lookalike pushes malware
Zeven deadly sins
Scareware peddlers have developed a new ruse that relies on mimicking browser warning pages.…
