LulzSec member pleads not guilty to charges he hacked Stratfor website
Hammond answers charges that he took data belonging to 860,000 Stratfor clients.
Website bug exposes 70,000 Kickstarter ventures that weren’t ready for publication
Crowd-funding site exposes draft projects in the latest social-networking gaffe.
Bitcoins worth $87,000 plundered in brazen server breach
Unknown hackers broke into Bitcoinica, a site that trades the virtual currency.
Amnesty International malware attack: when bad things happen on good sites
The group's UK website was compromised to host a notorious espionage trojan.
Twitter fights government subpoena demanding Occupy Wall Street protester info
Twitter has asked a New York state judge to throw out a court order requiring it to turn over three months worth of messages posted by an Occupy Wall Street protester...
Facebook "Likejackers" agree to stop sending misleading spam
A US-based advertising firm has promised to stop bombarding Facebook users with fraudulent messages in exchange for Washington State officials dropping a lawsuit that claimed the practice violated a federal antispam statute.
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Attackers target unpatched PHP bug allowing malicious code execution (Updated)
A huge number of websites around the world are endangered by an unpatched vulnerability in the PHP scripting language that attackers are already trying to exploit to remotely take control of...
Emergency Flash update fixes security bug being used to hijack PCs
Adobe has released an emergency update for its Flash Player that fixes a security bug that's being actively exploited to hijack Windows computers running the ubiquitous software.
The "object confusion vulnerability" resides ...
Malicious apps hosted in Google store turn Android phones into zombies
Google has been caught hosting more than a dozen malicious titles in its official Android app market. Some had been downloaded tens of thousands of times and turn smartphones into zombies...
Android users targeted in drive-by download attacks
Almost a dozen sites are actively targeting Android users with malware that could gain access to corporate networks and other protected systems, security researchers said. They note it's the first time...
Release of exploit code puts Oracle Database users at risk of attack
Oracle has declined to patch a critical vulnerability in its flagship database product, leaving customers vulnerable to attacks that siphon confidential information from corporate servers and execute malware on backend ......
Backdoor that threatens power stations to be purged from control system
Mission-critical routers used to control electric substations and other critical infrastructure are being updated to remove a previously undocumented backdoor that could allow vandals to hijack the devices, manufacturer...
