Malware breached 75M mark in 2011 —McAfee report

More than 75 million samples of malware were recorded in 2011, with those targeting mobile devices on the rise, according to security vendor McAfee. McAfee Labs senior vice-president Vincent Weafer said threats highly evolved in 2011, according to a report on PC World. “Increasingly, we’ve seen that no organization, platform…

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TicketWeb security breached by fake Adobe scammers

TicketWeb has suffered a security breach which saw emails containing malicious links purporting to be from Adobe sent to its customers. On February 11 customers of the British ticketing site reported receiving up to four emails all with the subject ‘Action Required: Update Your PDF Application’. The email claimed that…

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Care2.com social network accounts breached by hackers

Care2.com, a social networking website for activists, has decided to reset the account passwords of almost 18 million registered members after hackers gained access to its servers. The compromise was discovered last Tuesday and, according to the company operating the website, it only affected a limited number of accounts. However,…

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