Hacker avoids conviction over university cyber-attack

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans  Powered by Max Banner Ads A 20-year-old Auckland computer hacker has been discharged without conviction after launching a cyber-attack on the University of Melbourne in 2011. Neil McDonald appeared before Judge Pippa Sinclair at the North Shore District Court today facing one…

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Google Chrome avoids Microsoft malware designation

Google updated Chrome over the weekend to help users affected by Microsoft’s errant flagging of the browser as malware. New versions of Chrome for both the “stable” and “beta” channels were released Saturday, the day after Microsoft’s antivirus products identified Chrome as the Zeus botnet Trojan, and deleted the “chrome.exe”…

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