A US mother installed spyware on her home PC to track her 12-year-old daughter’s surfing activities. "The woman told police she bought the computer spying program because for a month or so, her daughter had been behaving oddly," says the Republican American. "She installed the program on Jan. 12 and after reviewing Internet chat transcripts, discovered […]
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A Greek hacker has been accused of selling corporate secrets, including data on weapons systems, from France’s Dassault Group. The man, a 58-year-old mathematician, hacked the company’s computer system to get the data, says Reuters. Greek police had been searching for a since 2002, "after Dassault contacted Greek authorities," the story has an anonymous police official saying. "He […]
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Organised criminal gangs are for the first time arriving at Apple’s doorstep with the intention of stealing money, says UK security firm Sophos. Malware for Macs has been seen before, "but until recently, organised criminal gangs have not felt the need to target Mac users when there are so many more poorly protected Windows PCs available," […]
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Congresswoman Betty McCollum wants the US Government Accountability Office to open an investigation into the potential security implications of a program thorugh which federal agencies are re-selling used magnetic data tapes to the public. She says an unofficial forensic test on a handful of tapes sold, "found a wealth of sensitive data still resident on the […]
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A US-based anti-spyware company has registered the ".com.au.com" domain name and it is now feared it could be used by cyber criminals to create more convincing phishing attacks, says ZDNet Australia. "The download page resembles an Internet Explorer error, and claims ‘Your computer system may have been compromised by dangerous spyware and/or adware infections’," says the […]
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British defence secretary Des Browne says the Ministry of Defence is investigating the reported loss of 69 laptops and seven PCs over the past year, says Guardian Unlimited. “Whitehall staff were banned from removing laptops containing sensitive data from their offices,” says the story. He also admitted a laptop with information on 600,000 people was stolen […]
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