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A Russian cybercrime overlord has been jailed for four years for creating a spam botnet made up of over 30 million compromised computers.

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Security firm McAfee has warned of a significant increase in malware across all platforms in the first quarter of this year, with mobile devices and Macs being increasingly targeted.

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Following an investigation into the security and vulnerability of Mac OS, Kaspersky's CTO Nikolay Grebennikov explained that "Mac OS is really vulnerable."

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A new network traffic splitting system could provide security professionals with advance warning of cyber-attacks.

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Slovakian security company ESET gave a preview to its upcoming Endpoint Solutions designed for SMB and enterprise users. It claims to be capable of detecting current and new malware and other Internet threats and features Firewall, Web-control and Spam-filter; the Endpoint Antivirus does not come with these modules.

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With millions of laptops out there, tens of thousands of careless people and a handful of dishonest people, things tend to get lost easily. Imagine the moment you realize that you have lost your laptop with precious/confidential/private data in it; it is definitely worrisome that your data might land into the wrong hands. Therefore, Intel wants to address this issue by introducing a service called Anti-Theft and what it does is that it uses a hardware security feature built-in to every Sandy Bridge processors to lock down your laptop in case it got lost. Of course, before you can do that, you need to know and do a few things.

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Over half a million Apple Mac computers have been infected with a computer trojan that connects them to an extensive botnet largely based in North America.

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Hacktivist group Anonymous claims that an operating system erroneously linked to its members has infected thousands of computers with malware.

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If you need to crack somebody’s password, there’s no better piece of hardware than a graphics cards. ElcomSoft is a well known security firm with government and private clients… and have just announced the switch to OpenCL.

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One of most popular file sharing sites online, the controversial The Pirate Bay, is making steps to stay alive in a way that would require the governments to "break the fabric of the internet" i.e. the DNS.

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Hackers who stole blueprints for Symantec's security and anti-malware software tried to extort a $50,000 ransom from the company, but the security firm refused to pay up.

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2011 was a record year for malware creation, with 26 million new samples detected by security software firm Panda Labs.

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Syamantec is warning customers to disable its pcAnywhere remote access software due to exposed vulnerabilities in it after hackers stole the source code.

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