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Who's Afraid of a Big Bad Hacking Story? May 07, 2012 
It's been a cheerily good spring for FOSS fans here in the Linux blogosphere, so we may perhaps be forgiven for our utter shock and disbelief at the affront recently committed against us by a certain brick-and-mortar purveyor of books and magazines. Barnes & Noble yanked the very excellent Linux Format magazine from its U.S. shelves -- apparently because of a cover story on the topic of "hacking."
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What Evil Lurks in the Hearts of Hactivists? April 30, 2012 
Nearly two-thirds (64 percent) of IT pros believe their organizations will be the target of a cyberattack in the next six months, and three out of five (61 percent) say the attack will come from hactivists. That was one of the findings in cybersecurity firm Bit9's annual security survey released last week. What's surprising about the survey is the concern given to hacktivist attacks, said Bit9 CTO Harry Sverdlove.
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Anonymous Strikes Most Fear in the Hearts of IT Security Managers April 24, 2012 
The hacker group Anonymous and other so-called hacktivists are the biggest concern for IT security professionals, according to a survey by Bit9. Its 2012 Cyber Security Survey queried nearly 2,000 IT security experts to gauge the current state of enterprise security and otherwise identify what keeps IT executives up at night.
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Did Google's Wardriving Ways Give It a Competitive Edge? April 23, 2012 
Last week, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission let Google off with a tap on the wrist for hindering the commission's efforts to investigate allegations that Google was slurping information from WiFi networks with its fleet of mapping vehicles.The search giant's punishment -- a $25,000 fine leveled on Google by the FCC -- earned criticism from privacy advocates as too meek a response to the company's sins.
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Flashback Mac Trojan Sputters and Stalls April 16, 2012 
A week after the Flashback Trojan began running rampant on Macintosh computers, the malware appears to be in remission. The number of
infections from the Trojan have plummeted to around 270,000, from a high
of more than 600,000, according to the latest numbers from Symantec.
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Anonymous Launches Cyberattack Salvo on China April 05, 2012 
Hackers purporting to be members of the nebulous online hacker community Anonymous have reportedly hit almost 400 websites in China. The attacks have apparently been going on since March 30. They are listed on the Anonymous China Twitter page.
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EU Commish: Don't Act on ACTA April 05, 2012 
The European Commission, the executive body of the European Union, asked the European Parliament not to vote on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA. ACTA, which is designed to harmonize international copyright regulations and enforcement, is scheduled for a June vote.
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Pastebin to Patrol Its Corridors for Sensitive Data April 03, 2012 
Online text depository Pastebin has decided to more closely monitor its site to quickly remove potentially sensitive information, according to a report from the BBC. The site is intended as a way for Internet users to post large amounts of data outside of somewhere such as a comment forum or a blog post, where huge amounts of text would appear to be out of place.
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Troubles Multiply for Global Payments April 03, 2012 
Visa has dropped Global Payments from the list of companies that it deems compliant with its security policies following news that the third-party vendor experienced a security breach that could have compromised some 1.5 million Visa and MasterCard accounts. The breach first came to light at the end of the last week, and Global Payments has since admitted it was the source.
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Federal Agencies Struggle With Protecting IT Supply Chain April 03, 2012 
Managers of information technology systems in both the private and public sectors have had their hands full dealing with security breaches that come from hackers invading IT systems. Increasingly, however, IT systems are becoming vulnerable from another channel -- the actual supply chain sources of both hardware equipment and software programs. Federal agencies are just as vulnerable as commercial enterprises to supply chain security breaches.
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Bad Week for Botnets April 02, 2012 
Two zombie networks infamous for stealing banking information and spewing spam were hit with a right-left combination last week by botnet fighters. Using the power of the federal RICO Act, Microsoft, along with organizations representing the financial services industry, took down two command-and-control servers running botnets based on Zeus, a malware family known for stealing the logins to banking accounts.
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The Future is Now - The Dark Side and Hacktivism March 31, 2012 
We live in times when technology is exceeding the understanding of educational institutions and corporations. A highly social Web and a bad economy is making the Dark Side -- the Internet underworld where cybercrime and hacking run rampant -- overwhelming. Hacktivism is the new, hip thing; it has become a hobby for people with higher-than-average computer knowledge.
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LulzSec Rears Its Smirking Head in Military Dating Site Attack March 27, 2012 
Nine months after shutting down operations -- and just weeks after several suspected members were arrested -- the LulzSec hacker community has apparently sprung back to life, hacking the website of military dating site MilitarySingles.
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Microsoft Wields RICO Act to Storm Zeus-Infested Botnet Hives March 26, 2012 
Microsoft, together with partners from the financial services industry, has hit the operators of a botnet running the Zeus Trojan. Escorted by U.S. Marshals, staff of the companies seized command and control servers in two hosting locations -- Scranton, Pa. and Lombard, Ill. -- and took down two IP addresses related to the C&C structure.
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Iran Still Stuck With Stuxnet March 26, 2012 
Iran apparently has developed an antivirus program to neutralize the notorious Stuxnet virus that put a kink in the country's nuclear development program in June 2010. Iran has vowed to distribute the antivirus program for free in about a month, according to Trend, a publication that describes itself as a private media outlet in Azerbaijan.
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12 Steps for Staying 1 Step Ahead of Online Security Threats March 23, 2012 
With the explosion of Web-based communications in the form of applications, blogs, podcasts, and social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, new security threats that can cause serious damage to computers are emerging. As they access these Web-based services from both work and personal computers, many users are unaware that they may be exposing themselves and their organizations to risk.
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Hacktivists, Not Profiteers, Stole Most Data in 2011 March 22, 2012 
Cyberattacks carried out by hacktivists -- hackers motivated by political reasons -- shot up in 2011, accounting for 58 percent of the data stolen in cyberbreaches, according to Verizon. The company's 2012 Data Breach Investigations Report also stated that 79 percent of the attacks were opportunistic, meaning they were carried out because an opportunity presented itself, rather than being planned.
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Iran Likely Suspect in Cyberattacks Against BBC March 15, 2012 
The BBC was the target of hack attacks earlier this month, according to comments made by BBC Director-General Mark Thompson in a wide-ranging speech to the Royal Television Society on Wednesday. There was a simultaneous attempt to jam two different satellite feeds of BBC Persian into Iran, and to disrupt BBC's London telephone lines via multiple automatic calls, he said. There was also a sophisticated cyberattack on the news service.
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