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Google outlines Bouncer service for Android malware, touts lack thereof

Chris Burns, Feb 2nd 2012 Discuss [0]

Recent incidents in which the Android Market has been accused of hosting massive malware outbreaks have been responded to by Google today with a brand new system code-named Bouncer. With this new system, a completely non-invasive and potentially developer effort-free system will continue to build on Android’s security system blocking out all malicious software, especially here and now in the Android Market. This comes at a time when security group Symantec has changed their tune after a week of screaming about malware that the object they found wasn’t malicious at all in the first place.

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NASA, Pentagon hacker arrested in Romania

Rue Liu, Feb 1st 2012 Discuss [0]

Police in Romania have arrested hacker TinKode, who is notorious for hacking into US military and government websites. The 20-year-old IT student, Razvan Manole Cernaianu, was accused of breaking into NASA and Pentagon servers, stealing confidential information, and then posting it on his personal blog. Read The Full Story

Reviews

Dropcam HD Review

Vincent Nguyen, Feb 1st 2012 Discuss [0]

Webcams aren’t new, and WiFi isn’t new, but it’s taken a while for WiFi-enabled video streaming cameras to come down to a level where remote home surveillance is reasonably affordable. Dropcam’s second-gen offering, the Dropcam HD, is a compact webcam with integrated wireless network connectivity, together with a suite of online and smartphone apps that all link up with the company’s cloud-based backbone. We’ve been under the watchful eye of the Dropcam HD; check out the full SlashGear review after the cut.

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Symantec says pcAnywhere safe again with new security patch

Rue Liu, Jan 31st 2012 Discuss [0]

Symantec has released a security patch for its pcAnywhere application, declaring it now safe to use again. The patch follows Symantec's warning last week for all users to disable the product after the company discovered that the source code had been stolen back in 2006, meaning users were at greater risk of being hacked. Read The Full Story

DMARC: Facebook, Google, Microsoft & more team on anti-phishing

Chris Davies, Jan 30th 2012 Discuss [0]

Google, Microsoft, PayPal, Facebook and other big names have announced a new anti-spam and phishing project, DMARC.org, creating a new system for email authentication that promises to learn from past attacks. "Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance" will use "a feedback loop between legitimate email senders and receivers to make impersonation more difficult" and, the companies hope, will eventually be adopted by the IETF as a standard. Read The Full Story

Symantec: Android Market having its largest malware infection ever

Chris Burns, Jan 27th 2012 Discuss [0]

Virus detection and security group Symantec has today reported that a bug by the name of Android.Counterclank has infected between 1 million and 5 million Android users as of this afternoon. This bit of software sits on a handful of easily downloadable applications available on the Android Market as of late today and each has been downloaded several hundred times at least, with some ranging in the thousands. This Android.Counterclank has the highest distribution of any malware identified inside 2012 and may well be the largest infection on Android in its short history. Read The Full Story

FBI accuses insider of stealing Federal Reserve computer code

Mark Raby, Jan 26th 2012 Discuss [0]

Computer programmer Bo Zhang had access to data that only a privileged few have the authority to touch. He worked for the Federal Reserve and dealt with sensitive information on a regular basis. He scored security clearance levels that most foreign entities would die for. And what happens when you get to play with hyper sensitive government data? Read The Full Story

PSA: McAfee computer security patches flaw: are you fixed?

Chris Burns, Jan 20th 2012 Discuss [0]

Earlier this week, the McAfee group began sending out a fix to stopper up a flaw which turned their protection service into a hijacked spam festival. The flaw, they say, was allowing hackers to attach themselves to your computer specifically and shoot spam throughout your machine - hijacking that which was supposed to be protected using a flaw in the system that was supposed to be doing the protecting. The exploit was reported earlier this week by two customers who were taken aback by the flaw earlier this week, McAfee responding with a fix now here at the end of it. Read The Full Story

Military weapon source code to be tested by casual gamers

Shane McGlaun, Jan 20th 2012 Discuss [0]

The Pentagon has a new plan for testing the software and code that is used in weapons systems. The plan is to integrate that code into some video games that are released to gamers and let the crowd sourced testing of the code begin. The code won't be used in shooters like America's Army though, it would be used in "fun to play" games like puzzle games and such that normal folk could pick up and play. Read The Full Story

Hackers steal $6.7M in cyber bank robbery

Shane McGlaun, Jan 18th 2012 Discuss [3]

Most of the hackers we talk about here are out to steal credit card numbers and harass. Some of the hacks result in illicit gains, but few that we have talked about have been able to pull the massive amount of funds that hackers who hit the South African Postbank have grabbed. These hackers were able to steal $6.7 million from the bank. Read The Full Story

Hacker oxOmar and pals hit Tel Aviv stock exchange and El Al airline

Shane McGlaun, Jan 17th 2012 Discuss [0]

Hacking has been growing at a rapid pace over the last year and while many of the big attacks have come in the US and Europe, those countries are not alone in facing the hacker threat. The Middle East has become a big target for hackers. A hacker going by oxOmar hacked into a credit card database and posted the details on 20,000 credit cards of Israeli citizens not long ago. Read The Full Story