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UK sports-betting newspaper the Racing Post has received a stern warning – but not a fine – after it emerged that it had aired the private details of more than 677,000 customers as the result of a security breach last year.  

Fast food restaurant Dairy Queen has confirmed that systems in some of their locations have been infected with malware that puts at risk credit and debit card data of customers of the retail chain.  

Break out your ad blocker or your NoScript: Malicious advertisements have been discovered infecting the Web browsers of people who visited certain major websites between Aug. 19 and Aug. 22. Users did not have to click on the ads to be infected.  

Honeypots just got sweeter after researchers cooked up new digital bait designed to tempt hackers into revealing themselves by tapping into what are faked communications between an enterprise application and its users.  

For second time in a month, Mozilla – famous for the Firefox web browser – has had to warn that thousands of email addresses and passwords were left lying around on a server that the public could easily access.  

Microsoft has reissued a security patch for Windows that previously caused PCs to suffer blue screens of death. The new release comes 10 days after Redmond advised people to uninstall the dodgy update.

Malvertising Hits High-Profile Websites - Java, deviantART, TMZ, Photobucket Malicious, real-time advertisements serving browser exploits were inserted in the ad space of high-profile websites last week.  

In a restricted intelligence document distributed to police, public safety, and security organizations in July, the Department of Homeland Security warned of a “malicious activity” that could expose secrets and security vulnerabilities in organizations’ information systems. The name of that activity: “Google dorking.”  

NetFlix's security team has given the open source treatment to three tools it uses to monitor the internet and gather evidence of planned attacks against its infrastructure.  

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation said it is investigating media reports that several U.S. financial firms have been victims of recent cyber attacks.