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March 10, 2010
14:46
Twitter adds filter to cut phishing lines
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Every twt.tl bit helps
Twitter has tightened up security procedures in order to curtail phishing attacks against users of the micro-blogging service, which have become rampant over recent weeks.…
11:29
Max Clifford takes £1m to drop hack probe
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Kiss and don't tell
Celebrity publicist Max Clifford has agreed to accept a £1m plus payoff in exchange for dropping phone hacking allegations against the News of the World.…
9:02
Suburban woman accused of using net to recruit terrorists
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Feds cuff JihadJane
A suburban Pennsylvania woman who went by the online alias JihadJane used the internet to recruit Islamic terrorists and to plot the assassination of a Swedish cartoonist who depicted the Prophet Mohammed, according to a federal indictment unsealed Tuesday.…
1:17
Fraud-prevention service ponies up $12m for 'false' ads
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Agrees to safeguard customer data
An Arizona company that sells services designed to prevent identity theft has agreed to pay $12m to settle charges it oversold their effectiveness and didn't adequately protect sensitive customer data.…
March 09, 2010
22:33
It's official: Adobe Reader is world's most-exploited app
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The new Microsoft
Adobe's ubiquitous Reader application has replaced Microsoft Word as the program that's most often targeted in malware campaigns, according to figures compiled by F-Secure.…
21:08
New Internet Explorer code-execution attacks go wild
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IE 6 and 7 users targeted
Online thugs are exploiting a security bug in earlier versions of Internet Explorer that allows them to remotely execute malicious code, Microsoft warned on Tuesday.…

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18:20
FA launches security probe after England team bugged
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Lancaster Gate-gate
Reported attempts to sell recordings of conversations between England squad players and coaches have sparked a security breach investigation at the FA.…
17:37
Smartphone app botnet experiment blows up a storm
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WeatherFist shows phone vulnerability, devs claim
Security researchers fooled nearly 8,000 iPhone and Android users into joining a mobile smartphone "botnet" under the guise of installing an apparently innocuous weather app.…
12:56
Vodafone ships Mariposa-infected HTC Magic
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Android phone comes riddled with bots
Updated Vodafone has been blamed for shipping Mariposa botnet malware and other nasties on a HTC Magic Android smartphones it supplied.…
1:34
Thailand approves extradition of credit card hack suspect
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Losses top $153m
A criminal court in Thailand has approved the extradition to the US of a Malaysian man suspected of participating in credit card thefts of more than $152m, according to a local news report.…

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Twitter adds filter to cut phishing lines

Max Clifford takes £1m to drop hack probe

Suburban woman accused of using net to recruit terrorists

Fraud-prevention service ponies up $12m for 'false' ads

It's official: Adobe Reader is world's most-exploited app

New Internet Explorer code-execution attacks go wild

FA launches security probe after England team bugged

Smartphone app botnet experiment blows up a storm

Vodafone ships Mariposa-infected HTC Magic

Thailand approves extradition of credit card hack suspect