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Reckz0r Hacks Sony, Dox Available on Pastebin as Usual
The Pastebin page also gives away an SQL injection vulnerability, however, it seems like not everyone is excited is about this hack. Discordian has criticized Reckz0r on this hack, saying most of the data was already out in the public domain.
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Pirate Bay Criticizes Anonymous for Virgin Media DDoS
With this ban, Virgin Media has become the first UK based ISP to impose a ban on The Pirate Bay. Legally, Virgin Media is not at fault here because it is just following court orders. However, instead of accepting the ban so happily, Virgin should have challenged the decision and followed BT’s example.
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Norton 2013 Begins Public Beta, Introduces Windows 8 Support
Norton 2013 series of products is now available for beta testing. Apart from cosmetic changes, the biggest improvement is complete Windows 8 support.
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Gmail Starts Sending Suspicious Sign in Prevented Emails
Gmail has started sending suspicious sign in prevented emails to users to alert them of suspicious activities in their accounts and when a user tries to login to Gmail from unknown locations.
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WhatsApp Security Woes; Hardcoded AES Key Used For Message Storage
WhatsApp message storage database uses static AES key to store messages. Can be decrypted and view by anybody.
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Android Still Has Serious Security Problems to Address
Hackers are developing spyware everyday that can infiltrate Android phones without user knowledge, and most of users have no idea that spyware is on their phones, or how it should be removed.
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Sophos Security Threat Report 2012 Identifies Decline in Fake Antivirus Threats, but Increase in Infected Websites
Sophos has published its annual report which includes an in-depth analysis of the security threats we witnessed in 2011, as well as prediction of trends for 2012.
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Redditor Uncovers the Mystery Behind the DuQu Trojan
It is interesting to note that the mystery man why demystified DuQu is none other than Igor Skochinsky, who reverse-engineered the Kindle in early 2008.
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Police Plan to Raid The Pirate Bay Leaked… by The Pirate Bay Itself!
Swedish Police have acquired warrants to secretly raid noted torrent sharing platform The Pirate Bay. However, The Pirate Bay came to know of this information and leaked it to the public. Moreover, The Pirate Bay operates several public servers so effectively shutting down the site is next to impossible.
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Court Extends the Date to Cut off Computers affected by DNSChanger from Internet
A federal Judge has extended the date to cut off computers affected with the DNSChanger malware from the internet.For those unaware, DNSChanger is a malware that replaces the default DNS servers of the infected computers with rogue DNS servers. It is believed that around four million computers were infected by this malware .
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