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Techworld - Security researchers said they've spotted a new type of banking malware that rivals the capabilities of the infamous Zeus malware. The malware, which is being called "Dyreza" or "Dyre," uses a man-in-the-middle attack that lets the hackers intercept unencrypted web traffic while users mistakenly think they have a secure connection with their online banking site. Although Dyreza has similarities with Zeus, "we believe this is a new banker trojan family and not yet...

Wall Street Journal - It’s London Technology Week, and that means the city is rolling out studies and statistics about how important the tech sector is for the U.K. capital. Two separate reports, commissioned by the Mayor of London’s promotional organization, found lots of evidence of robust growth for the British tech industry. One, by Oxford Economics, a forecasting and analysis firm, predicts that London’s digital tech sector is expected to create an additional £12...

The Hacker News - Today, the estimated number of known computer threats like viruses, worms, backdoors, exploits, Trojans, spyware, password stealer, and other variants of potentially unwanted software range into millions. It has the capability to create several different forms of itself dynamically in order to thwart antimalware programs. Users of the biggest online artwork community, DevianART with Global Alexa Rank 148, are targeted by the potentially unwanted software programs -- delivered by the advertisements...

Cyberwarzone.com - Cybercriminals have launched a new campaign which is hunting down unaware iTunes users. The hackers are sending a malicious crafted email which is titled ‘your account has been blocked!!’. The cybercriminals have used the [email protected] email account to send the malicious iTunes your account has been blocked campaign. Be aware as this is a scam and it will lead to the loss of your iTunes account. The hackers behind this campaign are harvesting...

Bloomberg - Somewhere in China, a man typed his user name, “ghost,” and password, “hijack,” and proceeded to rifle the computers of a utility in the Northeastern U.S. He plucked schematics of its pipelines. He copied security-guard patrol memos. He sought access to systems that regulate the flow of natural gas. He cruised channels where keystrokes could cut off a city’s heat, or make a pipeline explode. That didn’t appear to be his intention, and...

SC Magazine - A new project from CloudFlare, a website protection service, is hoping to better protect public interest websites from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. In its new initiative, dubbed Project Galileo, CloudFlare will identity deserving websites and offer its DDoS protection services to them, according to the project's website. Multiple organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Center for Democracy and Technology, will help CloudFlare sift through potential website candidates. Websites...

Ars Technica - For more than three years now, Microsoft has held to the line that it has loads of patents that are infringed by Google's Android operating system. "Licensing is the solution," wrote the company's head IP honcho in 2011, explaining Microsoft's decision to sue Barnes & Noble's Android-powered Nook reader. Microsoft has revealed a few of those patents since as it has unleashed litigation against Android device makers. But for the most part,...

Graham Cluley - A German security firm is reporting that an Android smartphone manufactured in China is shipping with malware pre-installed on it. The Star N9500 smartphone, which can be easily found available for sale via outlets like Amazon and eBay for relatively cheap prices, is said by researchers at G Data to be infected with the Uupay.D Trojan horse, posing as a version of the Google Play Store app. According to the security firm,...

New Jersey News - School and county officials are trying to determine who hacked into an Orange High School records system and changed the grades of several students. Sophomore Tyler Taylor says some students are paying the price for something they had nothing to do with. He believes the hacker changed two of his grades, but says that he never asked anyone to do it. "I just want the person whoever did it to confess...

The Washington Post - A new online tool purports to tell you how much you have in common with Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, LeBron James and any of your Facebook friends. It also has scary implications for the future of online advertising. A startup called Five Labs created the online tool using five dimensions many psychologists use to describe human personality: openness, extraversion, neuroticism, conscientiousness, agreeableness. (You can check out the tool here and use...