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Weekly Roundup : Jan 27, 2012 : Twitter Announces Censorship Policy for Certain Countries

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Symantec may have identified a botnet string of Android apps « mashtop - the top links, mashed up

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Symantec admits stolen source code impacts pcAnywhere - TOpSEssIOn.net

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Symantec may have identified a botnet string of Android apps | VentureBeat

Symantec claims to have found a string of “malicious” applications in the Android app store that resemble botnets... Similar stories ...

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SEC Goes After Online Trading Firms That Unwittingly Helped Latvian Hacker

Photo: Randy Le'Moine Photography/Flickr In an effort to crack down on hacker/stock traders who hijack brokerage accounts and... Similar stories ...

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Additional 12 months basic maintenance for symantec protection suite advanced business edition ...

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PcAnywhere code stolen, Symantec warns of exploits - TOpSEssIOn.net

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Twitter Censorship Move Sparks Backlash: Is it Justified?

An example of what Twitter's censorship will look like Internet scorn for Twitter’s announcement Thursday that it w... Similar stories ...

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FINRA advises brokers to bulk up security

The self-regulating authority of Wall Street is warning securities firms about a rise in customers' email accounts being hack... Similar stories ...

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Symantec: Android Market having its largest malware infection ever - SlashGear

Virus detection and security group Symantec has today reported that a bug by the name of Android.Counterclank has infected be... Similar stories ...

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Univ. of Hawaii settles with 98,000 over five breaches

The largest class-action settlement in Hawaii's history is related to data breaches at University of Hawaii campuses. Similar stories ...

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Twitter Takes on Security | SecTechno

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Symantec: Android.Counterclank has infected 1-5 million Android usersAndroidGuys

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Kelihos botnet suspect 'surprised and shocked' at Microsoft accusations | The Verge

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Symantec pcAnywhere Insecure File Permissions Vulnerability

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Bugtraq: AdaCore Security Advisory SA-2012-L119-003 Hash collisions in AWS http://t.co/1uTdvDzp0 comments Similar stories ...

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Security roundup: The triumph of hactivists, the sorrow of Symantec

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Researchers unearth more Chinese links to defense contractor attacks - Computerworld

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Infosecurity - Out-Hoover Hoover: FBI wants massive data-mining capability for social media

FBI Wants Massive Data-Mining Capability for Social Media To "Detect Threats" http://t.co/pHa0uc8v0 comments Similar stories ...

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ComponentOne FlexGrid ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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Password Sharing Among American Teenagers

Interesting article from the New York Times on password sharing as a show of affection. "It's a sign of trust," Tiffany Caran... Similar stories ...

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Infosecurity - Attitudes and perceptions in mobile security

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Best free antivirus: 9 reviewed and rated | News | TechRadar

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Infosecurity - Users not checking the security of public WiFi

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Symantec publishes pcAnywhere security recommendations - The H Security: News and Features

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Symantec: Too Many Doubts - Disable pcAnywhere Software

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Symantec says it didn't know 2006 source code was stolen until now | The Verge

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Lawmakers set aside bill mandating retention of Hawaii consumers' Internet browsing histories | ...

Hawaii tables sweeping Internet tracking bill. The Republic: http://t.co/QIkyqZsP0 comments Similar stories ...

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Symantec: We Didn’t Know in 2006 Source Code Was Stolen

Anti-virus giant Symantec says it did not know back in 2006 that source code for its software was stolen when it experienced ... Similar stories ...

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Eight Reasons Anonymous Should Welcome Glenn Beck With Open Arms

Oh, Glenn Beck. It seems that Beck has put in an application to join Anonymous. But mere words fail. The only thing you can s... Similar stories ...

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Symantec: We Didn't Know in 2006 Source Code Was Stolen | Threat Level | Wired.com

Anti-virus giant Symantec says it did not know back in 2006 that source code for its software was stolen when it experienced ... Similar stories ...

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Several Zero-Days on Latest Wordpress CMS | SecTechno

WordPress CMS is now open to several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker to conduct SQL injection and run a malicious java... Similar stories ...

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The Fast, Fabulous, Allegedly Fraudulent Life of Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom

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Railroad Association Says Hack Memo Was Inaccurate

Photo: paulkim09/Flickr A government memo saying a railway was hacked in a targeted attack was incorrect, according to a spok... Similar stories ...

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Study: BlackHole appears, Conficker remains

Eighty-five percent of all malware is web-based, and some 30,000 websites are newly infected with malicious code each day, ac... Similar stories ...

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Symantec record: Two major hacks, two major delays admitting fault, risk to customers | ITworld

For the second time in a row, #Symantec delays admitting customer risk after major hack. (BTW, don't use #pcAnywhere.) http:/... Similar stories ...

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Source code theft prompts Symantec to issue warning to customers -- Engadget

Security software publisher Symantec has confirmed it was the victim of a cyber attack, resulting in the theft and disclosure... Similar stories ...

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Top 5 Antivirus Software for 2012

Antivirus program on a PC is a must and it does to prevent the software’s from the threats malware spyware programs and... Similar stories ...

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Anonymous Strikes: Symantec Says Stop Using pcAnywhere

Symantec’s pcAnywhere software could very well turn into “virusAnywhere” due to a potential security breach... Similar stories ...

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Evidence on the Effectiveness of Terrorism

Readers of this blog will know that I like the works of Max Abrams, and regularly blog them. He has a new paper (full paper b... Similar stories ...

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Don't Use Our Software, Security Firm Symantec Warns Customers | Fox News

Don't use our software, security firm Symantec warns customers: Symantec is advising customers not to disable on... http://t.... Similar stories ...

Software

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Symantec suspected Anonymous code breach back in 2006

Symantec suspected in 2006 that its network had been breached, but the company was unable to confirm any data exfiltration un... Similar stories ...

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Symantec warnt nach Quelltext-Klau vor pcAnywhere | heise Security

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Symantec: Users Should Disable PCAnywhere Now - Security - Vulnerabilities and threats - ...

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Symantec Recommends Disabling PcAnywhere and Waiting for Security Patches | PCWorld Business Center

Symantec Recommends Disabling PcAnywhere and Waiting for Security Patches: Security vendor Symantec has advised ... http://t.... Similar stories ...

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BBC News - Symantec advises disabling pcAnywhere software

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Threatened by Anonymous, Symantec tells users to pull pcAnywhere's plug - Computerworld

Rt @OskNets: Threatened by Anonymous, Symantec tells users to pull pcAnywhere's plug http://t.co/KfoPO16A0 comments Similar stories ...

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Symantec advises customers to stop using pcAnywhere

In a perhaps not wholly unexpected move, Symantec has advised the customers of its pcAnywhere remote control application to s... Similar stories ...

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Piraté, Symantec conseille de désactiver PCAnywhere

Des Anonymous ont mis la main sur le code source de plusieurs produits Symantec en 2006. Plus que les versions de Norton conc... Similar stories ...

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Google privacy policy changes raise concerns

A new blueprint by which Google will share user information across its offerings, similar to how Facebook does, is geared to ... Similar stories ...

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Beware Of Address Bar Spoofing

The problem in everyday life is that sometimes you have to deal with con men. There are all types of con men out there. They ... Similar stories ...

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Symantec tells customers to disable pcAnywhere - Times LIVE

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Symantec tells customers to disable pcAnywhere | HITBSecNews

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Major Symantec breach highlights risks of running old software | ZDNet

Symantec says it has fewer than 50,000 users of pcAnywhere, a remote-access program that has been around for decades. It now ... Similar stories ...

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Anonymous Goes After World Governments in Wake of Anti-SOPA Protests

@AnonyOps in interview with Wired. Credit: Annaliza Savage/Wired Over the last week, Anonymous has launched unprecedented str... Similar stories ...

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Symantec: Stop using pcAnywhere, right now | Naked Security

Symantec has admitted that blueprints for current versions of its pcAnywhere software were stolen in 2006 and that all users ... Similar stories ...

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Symantec: Anonymous stole source code, users should disable pcAnywhere

Symantec has confirmed that the hacker group Anonymous stole source code from the 2006 versions of several Norton security pr... Similar stories ...

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Symantec profit, forecast in line with estimates| Reuters

Symantec profit, forecast in line with estimates: (Reuters) - Symantec Corp, the top maker of... http://t.co/y7emoMDO #techno... Similar stories ...

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Federal Judge Orders Defendant to Decrypt Laptop

A U.S. federal judge has ordered a defendent to decrypt her laptop.... Similar stories ...

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Legality of Mobile Phone Tracking Still Unclear Despite Supreme Court GPS Decision

The Supreme Court’s blockbuster GPS decision Monday afforded American’s new constitutional privacy protections ag... Similar stories ...

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Bail Denied for Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom

Megaupload.com employees (left to right) Bram van der Kolk, also known as Bramos; Finn Batato; Mathias Ortmann; and founder, ... Similar stories ...

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Supreme Court Rules that GPS Tracking Requires a Warrant

The U.S Supreme Court has ruled that the police cannot attach a GPS tracking device to a car without a warrant. EDITED TO ADD... Similar stories ...

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Symantec admits stolen source code impacts pcAnywhere

Big Yellow has done an about-face in light of new analysis that confirms users of its pcAnywhere software may be at risk to a... Similar stories ...

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Use Google? Time to Get Real About Protecting Your Digital Self - Sara Marie Watson - ...

Google's decided to integrate the data it has about you, which means you better think about the digital tracks you're leaving... Similar stories ...

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Symantec tells customers to disable pcAnywhere software - Yahoo! News

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Acunetix WVS 8 Released Candidate Now Available!

We are pleased to announce a Release Candidate (RC) of the much-awaited Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner, version 8. This b... Similar stories ...

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Research into an Information Security Risk Rating

The NSF is funding research on giving organizations information-security risk ratings, similar to credit ratings for individu... Similar stories ...

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Joomla User Authentication | Joomla | PHP | Software Architecture

#Joomla User Authentication by ronbc: Specification is attached. (Budget: $… http://t.co/WgJCTrhS #freelance #job0 comments Similar stories ...

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Twitter Acquires Dasient for Anti-Malvertising Security Technology

Twitter acquires Dasient, which has developed a scanner that detects malicious content on Websites and deploys the scanner as... Similar stories ...

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Google tracks consumers across products, users can’t opt out - The Washington Post

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Twitter acquires web malware fighter Dasient

Twitter, a hotbed of malware due to its extreme popularity, has made one of its first-ever security acquisitions with the pur... Similar stories ...

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