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Arstechnica - While the rest of us were fretting about the Gmail outage on Friday, lawyers and those involved in the United States judicial system were concerned that uscourts.gov and other federal courts’ sites had been hit by a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack.   Also suffering an outage was pacer.gov, the “Public Access to Court Electronic Records” (PACER), a common way for lawyers and journalists to access court documents online. (That site, which normally charges $0.10 per page for documents, also...

The Hackers News - Hey Android users! I am quite sure that you must be syncing your Smartphone with your PCs for transferring files and generating backup of your device. If your system is running a windows operating system, then it’s a bad news for you. Researchers have discovered a new piece of windows malware that attempts to install mobile banking malware on Android devices while syncing.

Business Week - Telus and Rogers expect data storage sales in Canada to increase 20 percent this year. U.S. cloud computing businesses may lose as much as $35 billion through 2016, according to the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, a policy research group in Washington whose board includes representatives of IBM (IBM) and Intel (INTC).

The Hackers News - Google has announced its 4th Pwnium Hacking Contest hosted at the Canadian Security conference in March, offering more than $2.7 million in potential rewards for hacking Chrome OS-running ARM and Intel Chromebook. This year the security researchers have a choice in between an ARM-based Chromebook, the HP Chromebook 11 (WiFi) and the Acer C720 Chromebook (2GB WiFi) based on Intel's Haswell microarchitecture.

Barracuda - A week ago (on Monday, January 20), as well as on January 14, 11, and 10, Hasbro’s website pushed malicious software to visitors’ computers. As with the Cracked.com compromise a week prior, the incident was the result of direct site compromise, and affected users were unlikely to have recognized that their computers were infected For reference, below is a screenshot of Barracuda Labs’ malicious URL detection environment after a successful attack.

The Hackers News - Apart from various Government websites falling victim to Hacking attacks, the latest to be targeted by hackers belongs to the world's richest cricket Board, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Late night on 26th January (65th Republic Day of India), the official website of Indian cricket’s Governing body, BCCI.TV has been defaced by Bangladeshi hacker who goes by the name Ashik Iqbal Chy.

Sec-Down.com - The case started with a “Remote PHP Code Injection” vulnerability that later escalated to “Remote Command Execution”. Simply, PHPCI occurs when user-supplied(GET/POST) values of the parameters are reflected inside eval() function, that vulnerability allows attackers to execute PHP code such as system(“id”) or any other php function/code.

Graham Cluley - Michaels, the biggest arts and crafts retailer in the United States, may be the latest big name to have fallen foul of hackers. The company has published a warning to customers that it might have experienced a “data security attack”, raising concerns in the security industry that Michaels may have joined Neiman Marcus and Target in the list of retailers who have become casualties to RAM-scraping malware targeting point-of-sale computers (also known...

Talater - While we’ve all grown accustomed to chatting with Siri, talking to our cars, and soon maybe even asking our glasses for directions, talking to our computers still feels weird. But now, Google is putting their full weight behind changing this. There’s no clearer evidence to this, than visiting Google.com, and seeing a speech recognition button right there inside Google’s most sacred real estate - the search box. Yet all this effort may now be...

ZDNet - The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is warning US retailers to be on the lookout for malware that infects point-of-sale (POS) systems. According to Reuters, the FBI sent retailers a confidential report stating that it believes POS malware is on the rise.