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Malicious Spam: Government employees tricked… two hours of training prescribed September 19th, 2012 - 03:51 pm ET In Taiwan, a thousand government employees have fallen victim to a spam attack which could have been malicious. This was in fact a test set by the hierarchy. Each of these people ...

Internet Explorer: corrected in a few days September 19th, 2012 - 09:10 am ET Affected by a 0-day fault, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer will receive a corrective patch while an update is developed.

Cyber spying: three other malware programs linked to Flame September 18th, 2012 - 04:11 pm ET Additional information has come out about Flame: the platform that was first seen in 2006 whose development is still ongoing.

Internet Explorer: 0-day vulnerability September 18th, 2012 - 09:10 am ET From versions 6 to 9, a security vulnerability in Internet Explorer is currently being exploited by attackers.

Microsoft: malware originates from computer manufacturing - Update September 17th, 2012 - 10:30 am ET Microsoft has taken control of a domain that hosted the Nitol botnet. The malware infected machines during their manufacturing in Chinese factories.

Skype: connection with Microsoft and Facebook accounts September 14th, 2012 - 05:00 pm ET The latest beta version of Skype for Windows and OS X allows users to connect with their Microsoft and Facebook accounts.

Opus: the free audio codec which should become the standard September 14th, 2012 - 10:10 am ET The free audio compression format known as Opus Interactive Audio Codec should become the Internet standard.

A member of Anonymous arrested chatting September 14th, 2012 - 09:10 am ET An old member of the hacking group Anonymous was arrested on Wednesday while chatting online. AntiSec reacted by publishing the credit card numbers of government employees ...

An editor takes responsibility for leaked iOS identifiers September 11th, 2012 - 10:10 am ET Apple’s identifiers published by AntiSec come from editor BlueToad’s servers, with the company admitting to this. The hacking group had previously stated that they found the ...

Antivirus: Google gets their hands on VirusTotal September 10th, 2012 - 01:37 pm ET VirusTotal, the free online suspect file analyser, has fallen under Google’s control. While the service will become a Google affiliate, it will continue to maintain its ...