Apple iPhone owners Down Under are reporting their jailbroken iPhones have been hit with a worm that hijacks their wallpaper, changing it to an image of 1980s pop star Rick Astley, and eats up their bandwidth. Although the worm may have spread beyond Australia, there are no confirmed reports yet. Full Story »
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York's attorney general said the operator of Tagged.com would pay $500,000 and overhaul its practices to resolve charges that the social networking site tricked members into providing personal details to lure new members and send out tens of millions of spam emails. Full Story »
The first worm to infect the iPhone will not affect most users of Apple's smartphone, despite worrying reports. The ikee worm only affects jailbroken iPhones, representing a minority percentage of iPhones on the market. Full Story »
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Of all the sinister things that Internet viruses do, this might be the worst: They can make you an unsuspecting collector of child pornography. Full Story »
The first worm written for Apple's iPhone has been unleashed and is infecting phones in Australia. Full Story »
ScanSafe researchers are seeing renewed activity regarding Gumblar, a multifunctional piece of malware that spreads by attacking PCs visiting hacked Web pages. Full Story »
The Postini technology that lets Google Apps Premier administrators control their e-mail environments by establishing and enforcing usage policies, rules and parameters will be extended to the other applications of the suite. Full Story »
If you want make a Mac user mad, just sidle up and whisper the words, “Mac security software.” Then step back as the incensed sputtering ensues. Full Story »
San Francisco - As many product vendors can readily tell you, this reviewer is the ultimate computer security cynic and a tough writer to please. Full Story »
Cyberthieves are hacking into small- and medium-sized organizations every week and stealing millions of dollars in an ongoing scam that has moved about US$100 million out of U.S. bank accounts, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation warned Tuesday. Full Story »
It's one of the basic tenets of online security: Never use the same password/username combo for every website that requires one. The logic is sound, of course. A single security breach could expose your most private information — such as banking and credit card numbers — to the bad guys. Full Story »
A U.S. man is facing federal criminal charges for allegedly selling modified cable modems and software that enabled free Internet access at super-fast broadband speeds. Full Story »
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BEIJING (AFP) - China's police chief has called for a reinforced nationwide Internet security system, in the nation's latest effort to oversee the activities of the world's largest online population. Full Story »
An expert on cable modem hacking has been arrested by federal authorities on computer intrusion charges. Full Story »
Microsoft released its latest security intelligence report on Monday -- and the picture looks grim for enterprises. Enterprise worm infections rose nearly 100 percent in the first half of 2009 from the previous six months. In the same period, consumers continued to struggle with rogue software. Full Story »
The Conficker worm continues to be one of the most prevalent threats facing PCs running Windows, according to a new security report published by Microsoft. Full Story »
WASHINGTON - The United States is well behind the curve in the fight against computer criminals, Sen. Joe Lieberman said Friday, as Homeland Security officials opened a $9 million operations center to better coordinate the government's response to cyberattacks. Full Story »
The Conficker worm has passed a dubious milestone. It has now infected more than 7 million [m] computers, security experts estimate. Full Story »
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