World News
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Hundreds of DreamHost websites hacked by spammers
06 February 2012
Rogue PHP pages that redirect users to work-at-home scams have been added to hundreds of websites hosted at DreamHost following a security breach suffered by the company in January, researchers from cloud security vendor Zscaler said.
New virus-infected emails take over your PC even if you DON'T open their attachments
02 February 2012
A new class of cyber attack is threatening PCs - emails which infect PCs without the user having to open an attachment.
Swedish Supreme Court rejects Pirate Bay appeal bid
01 February 2012
The four founders behind The Pirate Bay saw their final attempt to appeal against an earlier ruling rejected in Sweden's Supreme Court today.
Mozilla releases Firefox 10
01 February 2012
Mozilla has released version 10 of its Firefox browser as part of its accelerated six-week build cycle, and has also included a pack of developer tools aimed at simplifying life for website operators.
Newzbin barrister struck off for owning site he represented
31 January 2012
A barrister has been struck off and fined after failing to disclose that he was the owner of a copyright-infringing website that he represented during trial - and for posting abusive Twitter messages.
New Trojan routes your bank's calls to CROOKS
02 February 2012
Devious cybercrooks have developed a banking Trojan that is capable of redirecting calls your bank has made to verify suspicious transactions – straight into the waiting handsets of professional criminal caller services.
TripAdvisor rebuked over 'trust' claims on its review site
01 February 2012
TripAdvisor has been ordered to rewrite some of its marketing claims by the UK's Advertising Standards Authority. The ruling follows complaints by hotels that the site had said that its holiday reviews could be "trusted".
Many pcAnywhere users are still sitting ducks
31 January 2012
Despite warnings from security software maker Symantec not to connect its pcAnywhere remote-access software to the Internet, more than 140,000 computers appear to remain configured to allow direct connections from the Internet, thereby putting them at risk.
Crackdown on phishing scams announced
30 January 2012
A crackdown on "phishing" scams has been announced by 15 of the top technology companies. Email providers such as Google and Microsoft will work with companies like Paypal and the Bank of America to improve authentication.
