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5 ways to secure your Facebook profile in a post-Timeline world
by (Logan Kugler)
7 Feb 2012 at 5:00am
The new Timeline layout introduces some changes that may mean you're suddenly sharing more than you should. Here's how to lock down Facebook without going overboard.
Anonymous claims to have released source code of Symantec's pcAnywhere
by (John Ribeiro)
7 Feb 2012 at 1:17am
Hacker group Anonymous claimed late Monday that the source code of Symantec's pcAnywhere had been uploaded on The Pirate Bay site.
Copyright lawsuit targets owners of non-secure wireless networks
by jvijayan@computerworld.com (Jaikumar Vijayan)
6 Feb 2012 at 2:56pm
A federal lawsuit filed in Massachusetts could test the question of whether individuals who leave their wireless networks unsecured can be held liable if someone uses the network to illegally download copyrighted content.
Armored-truck company entrusts tracking software to Windows Azure cloud
by (Tim Greene)
6 Feb 2012 at 2:33pm
U.K.-based cash-transport firm G4S is trusting the security of Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud service to keep safe the application that tracks where the money is as it travels to and from customers and the company's vaults in armored trucks.
Kelihos botnet still dead, say Microsoft, Kaspersky
by gkeizer@computerworld.com (Gregg Keizer)
6 Feb 2012 at 11:42am
Contrary to reports, the Kelihos botnet has not crawled out of the grave, Microsoft said last week. But the company acknowledged that a new botnet is being assembled using a variant of the original malware.
Hundreds of DreamHost websites abused by spammers
by (Lucian Constantin)
6 Feb 2012 at 9:31am
Rogue PHP pages that redirect users to work-at-home scams have been added to hundreds of websites hosted at DreamHost following a security breach suffered by the company in January, researchers from cloud security vendor Zscaler said.
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Computerworld Cybercrime and Hacking News

Denial-of-service attacks are on the rise, anti-DDoS vendors report
by (Lucian Constantin)
7 Feb 2012 at 8:34am
Both the number and volume of distributed denial-of-service attacks are increasing, according to new reports from DDoS mitigation companies Prolexic and Arbor Networks.
Anonymous claims to have released source code of Symantec's pcAnywhere
by (John Ribeiro)
7 Feb 2012 at 1:17am
Hacker group Anonymous claimed late Monday that the source code of Symantec's pcAnywhere had been uploaded on The Pirate Bay site.
Kelihos botnet still dead, say Microsoft, Kaspersky
by gkeizer@computerworld.com (Gregg Keizer)
6 Feb 2012 at 11:42am
Contrary to reports, the Kelihos botnet has not crawled out of the grave, Microsoft said last week. But the company acknowledged that a new botnet is being assembled using a variant of the original malware.
4 keys for IP protection
by (Jason Clark)
6 Feb 2012 at 9:28am
Do you think data breaches are up or down in 2011 compared to 2007 or 2008? The official answer may surprise you. According to DatalossDB and the 2011 Data Breach Investigations Report [PDF link] by Verizon, the number of records compromised per year has been decreasing since its 2008 peak. But these reports are missing something very important. It all comes down to what is reported. Last year I met with more than 450 CIOs and CSOs, and almost all of them said that incidents are way up. New breaches are constantly making headlines, so why is there a discrepancy between our perception and what these reports are finding?
Hungarian hacker gets 30 months for extortion plot on Marriott
by jvijayan@computerworld.com (Jaikumar Vijayan)
3 Feb 2012 at 3:02pm
A Hungarian hacker who attempted to extort money from Marriott International Inc. by stealing confidential data from its computers and threatening to expose it was sentenced to 30 months in prison.
Anonymous grabs email from firm that defended Marine in Haditha case
by jvijayan@computerworld.com (Jaikumar Vijayan)
3 Feb 2012 at 1:34pm
In what's turning out to be quite a busy Friday for the hacking collective, Anonymous today said it has broken into the website of a law firm that represented a U.S. Marine accused of killing civilians in Haditha, Iraq.
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