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  • Warrant issued for arrest of cyclist turned hacker

    Cyclist accused of planting trojan at dope testing lab. A French judge has issued a warrant for the arrest of US cyclist Floyd Landis in connection with a computer hacking case. Landis initially won the famous Tour de France cycle race in 2006, but was later stripped of his title when tests indicated that he…

  • Out-of-band patch release from Adobe

    Unscheduled update released by Adobe. Adobe has released an unscheduled patch for its Reader and Acrobat programs to address some critical flaws. The software company’s fixes usually follow a quarterly release schedule, and last month saw a bumper crop, so none were expected to be published this month, but the vulnerabilities in Reader and Acrobat…

  • Yxe trojan infecting mobile phones

    Symbian software-signing slipup certifies SMS spambot. A new trojan, the first of its kind, is affecting users of the Symbian mobile operating system by spreading itself via text messages sent to all numbers in the phone’s address book. These messages contain a link, clicking on which will attempt to install an application Sexy Space ,…

  • Keyloggers used to loot US county

    $415,000 sneaked from local government funds. A Kentucky county has suffered losses of $415,000 after keylogging malware infiltrated its computer systems, allowing cybercriminals access to sensitive user data which let them syphon cash to accounts in the Ukraine. Custom variants of the Zbot trojan were used to steal the passwords of the county treasurer, and…

  • Microsoft issues emergency patch

    Out-of-cycle update fixes serious, wormable flaw. Microsoft has issued an emergency update to cover a serious vulnerability in the Windows Server service, breaking its usual monthly ‘Patch Tuesday’ cycle of security fixes. The flaw was considered serious enough to merit an urgent patch release, although Microsoft will only confirm having seen the usual ‘limited, targeted’…

  • Malware reaches space station

    Autorun worm found on non-critical systems. US space agency NASA has confirmed reports that laptops in use on the international space station have been found to have been infected with password-stealing malware. The infected systems are said to be non-mission-critical and used by space station crew for email and recording data from ‘nutritional experiments’. According…

  • Best Western database hack exposes info on 8m customers

    Hotel chain data heist latest in string of major security leaks. The global hotel chain Best Western has had its network security breached, leading to full details of thousands of its customers being harvested and made available for sale on hacker websites. The haul of sensitive information is one of the biggest in a wave…

  • Storm mails bring spoof World War 3 news

    US-Iran war story used as hook for malware barrage. The Storm botnet has been spamming in force again in the past week, with its expected run targeting 4th of July celebrations in the US swiftly followed by a second campaign carrying news of a fictitious invasion of Iran by US forces. The mails have hyperbolic…

  • Macs under attack from trojan double whammy

    Two new threats in a week spark worries of approaching Mac malware era. Users of Apple Mac systems, who have so far only suffered from minimal attention from malware creators, may need to take more care in future according to some security analysts, after the exposure of a significant vulnerability in the operating system and…

  • Trojan-to-worm automation tool spotted

    GUI gizmo adds extra spreading menace to any malware. Researchers at Panda have discovered a simple and colourful graphical application designed to add basic worm techniques to trojans, giving any piece of malicious code the ability to spread itself across networks. The tool, dubbed ‘Constructor/wormer’ by Panda , also allows a number of advanced options…