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Anonymous hacks phone call between FBI and UK law enforcement
Hacktivist group Anonymous have released a 17-minute recording of a conference call between British and US law enforcement agents coordinating an ongoing investigation into the group.
 
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F-Secure Internet Security 2012 review
If you can tolerate some sluggishness, F-Secure Internet Security 2012 (£39.95 for one year and three PCs) will protect your PC pretty well.
 
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Panda Internet Security 2012 review
Panda Internet Security 2012 (£50.99 for one year) is an acceptable package for detecting and blocking malware, but its abysmal scan speeds - along with other speed issues - make it a poor alternative to its rivals.
 
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DNSChanger has infected half of Fortune 500 firms
Half of all Fortune 500 companies and major US government agencies own computers infected with the "DNSChanger" malware that redirects users to fake websites and puts organisations at risk of information theft, a security company warned yesterday.
 
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Microsoft researchers discover malicious cookie scheme
Microsoft researchers checking how easy it is to identify users by analysing commonly collected web-log data incidentally discovered a cookie-forwarding scheme that can be used to aid session hijacking.
 
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New Ice IX banking Trojan enables fraudsters to hijack phone calls
New variants of the Ice IX online banking Trojan program are tricking victims into exposing their telephone account numbers so that fraudsters can divert post-transaction verification phone calls made by banks to phone numbers under their control, researchers from security vendor Trusteer warned.
 
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VeriSign admits it was hacked in 2010 but managers not told
Internet giant VeriSign suffered a series of data breaches in 2010 and even now senior executives are not sure exactly what was compromised, the company has admitted in a filing made to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
 
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Bogus Facebook accounts always female, new study finds
Bogus Facebook profiles used to spread malware are overwhelmingly created to appear female, have an unusually high number of ‘friends’ and often claim to be bisexual, a study of the phenomenon has found.
 
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Bogus Facebook accounts easy to spot, new study finds
Bogus Facebook profiles used to spread malware are overwhelmingly created to appear female, have an unusually high number of ‘friends’ and often claim to be bisexual, a study of the phenomenon has found.
 
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Apple FileVault 2 encryption cracked by forensic software
The encryption keys for Apple’s FileVault 2 full-disk encryption used with OS X Lion can be recovered “in minutes” from memory, password-cracking outfit Passware has announced.
 
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