Updated Android malware can take over your phone

A customized variant of Android malware is now worming its way onto nonrooted devices and taking them over, and the weapon requires no interaction from the victim to begin its campaign. Researchers at the mobile security firm Lookout identified the reworked malware as Legacy Native (LeNa), which poses as a…

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Security Researchers Take Down ‘Kelihos Botnet’

Security researchers from four different organizations brought down a botnet by turning a supposed strength of the criminals’ spamming network into a fatal weakness. Experts from CrowdStrike, Dell SecureWorks, the Honeynet Project and Kaspersky Lab crippled the second-coming of the Kelihos botnet on March 21 by “sinkholing” about 118,000 bot-infected…

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Passengers take down ranting JetBlue pilot

By Oskar Garcia and Betsy Blaney Associated Press LAS VEGAS Passengers aboard an early morning flight from New York bound for Las Vegas first noticed something wrong when the plane's top pilot came out of the cockpit, didn't close the door and tried to force his way into an occupied…

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Hackers group Anonymous take down Vatican website

ROME (Reuters) – The Italian branch of the hackers group Anonymous took down the Vatican’s website on Wednesday, saying it was an attack on the Roman Catholic Church’s scandals and conservative doctrine. The Vatican website www.vatican.va was inaccessible. A spokesman said he could not confirm that the crash was the…

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