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Irresponsible disclosure? That's a big fat zero

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2010-01-12 06:39:34 by Graham Cluley, Sophos in Graham Cluley's blog
...information about unpatched vulnerabilities. Such an approach may inevitably lead to innocent computer users finding their systems compromised by hackers exploiting the zero-day vulnerabilities before a patch is available What I think Legerov has failed to realise is that there is another way to get vulnerabilities fixed, whilst still...
 
 
 
 
 
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Baidu, China's largest search engine, defaced by Iranian Cyber Army

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2010-01-12 02:38:35 by Graham Cluley, Sophos in Graham Cluley's blog
...security scanning every webpage you visit, even if it's an established legitimate website
 
 
 
 
 
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South Korea launches its cyberwarfare command centre

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2010-01-11 11:40:13 by Graham Cluley, Sophos in Graham Cluley's blog
South Korea is reportedly officially launching its cyberwarfare command centre today The unit, which will be manned by some 200 computer technicians, is designed to counter the threat of Chinese hackers and the much-rumoured North Korean cyberwarfare division , which has been accused of attacking North American and South Korean military...
 
 
 
 
 
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Hate crime synagogue hacker unlikely to be charged

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2010-01-11 11:40:13 by Graham Cluley, Sophos in Graham Cluley's blog
In the first week of January, two synagogues in Boulder, Colorado, found that their websites had been defaced by a hacker who posted anti-Semitic messages The websites of Bonai Shalom and Har HaShem were breached on January 2nd with messages such as Jews are terrorists. Child Organ Smugglers and Jews are terrorists Organization Subsequently, the...
 
 
 
 
 
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Amazon Shipping update email contains malware

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2010-01-11 11:40:12 by Graham Cluley, Sophos in Graham Cluley's blog
Waiting for a delivery from Amazon.com? Well, be careful if you receive a notification in your email - as it could be that hackers are trying to trick you into infecting your computer We're intercepting a wave of forged emails which claim to come from order-update@amazon.com , but unlike regular emails from the dot com giant they have a...
 
 
 
 
 
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Banking malware found on Android Marketplace

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2010-01-11 07:38:06 by Graham Cluley, Sophos in Graham Cluley's blog
...information According to a blog post from the First Tech Credit Union, an app called Droid09 posed as a shell for mobile banking applications, phishing personal information about the users's bank accounts. The information would, presumably, have been usen for the purposes of identity theft SophosLabs has not yet seen a sample of the malware,...
 
 
 
 
 
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'Hack our election and spend the rest of your life in jail'

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2010-01-11 07:38:06 by Graham Cluley, Sophos in Graham Cluley's blog
...security of their sites, and try to uncover if potentially embarrassing security holes are lurking there
 
 
 
 
 
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Sophos Snowman 1.0 beta

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2010-01-06 11:38:42 by Graham Cluley, Sophos in Graham Cluley's blog
I'm visiting our Boston office at the moment, so missing out on all the fun back in the UK - where the country is under an unusually heavy blanket of snow. Up to 40cm (15.8in) of snow has fallen overnight in parts of Oxfordshire, where Sophos's UK headquarters is based Sophos staffers Letu and Ajay have been busy this morning, and are proud to...
 
 
 
 
 
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Is Web 2.0 suicide painless?

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2010-01-05 13:37:52 by Graham Cluley, Sophos in Graham Cluley's blog
A site called the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine has been making headlines after it offered internet users a simple one-stop-shop for wiping their data off the likes of Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, or LinkedIn Although it may have been created with honourable intentions - after all, there is plenty of evidence that far too many people are sharing far...
 
 
 
 
 
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Chinese virus writer seeks employment as security expert

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2010-01-05 13:37:52 by Graham Cluley, Sophos in Graham Cluley's blog
...security business, now he has been released from jail 28-year-old Li Jun wrote the Fujacks worm (also known as Worm.Whboy) which made headlines in 2007 because it converted icons of infected programs into a picture of a panda burning joss-sticks as it stole usernames and passwords from online games players According to media reports from...
 
 
 
 
 
 
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