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ZERO DAY is a film about cybercrime, where a journalist Brian Krebs tracks down and takes an interview from a money mule, moves stolen money for the Russian mob. In addition, filmmakers are getting help from the Facebook’s Security Team at Menlo Park California headquarters. This team is providing an unattended access to various criminal activities like intrusions, hacks and more. More...

Conficker worm - the long 2 and a half year long living botnet is still infecting millions of windows machines. It managed to infect 1. 7 million PC users in the 4Q of 2011. More...

According to E-Threat report by Bitdefender about Android malware, Android. Trojan. FakeDoc. More...

Britain Information Commissioner’s Office (also known as ICO) has conducted researches, which discovered that more than one tenth of second hand hard drives contains personal information of the owner, that can be recovered. These research tests were commissioned by the NCC group. 200 hard drives, 20 USB sticks and 10 cellphones were acquired from internet trading sites at fair prices. More...

Microsoft has decided that Windows XP and Office 2003 productivity suite support will be discontinued in 2 years. In addition, Microsoft stated, that Windows vista won’t be supported mainstream on April 10th. Extended support phase means that registered users will receive only security patches, while organizations that have support contracts with the company will receive all other fixes, including reliability and stability updates. More...

SophosLabs experts have released a detailed report about the most spamming countries in the world. This report confirmed that India has beaten USA at spamming and now it is the top 1 country to contribute to the junk email problem. Probably the 1/10th of the spam messages you receive are from an indian computer. More...

Cloud-based payroll services are targeted by cybercriminals using Zeus malware. These organisations, which offers payroll services are one of the mostly wanted by hackers, because a lot of money that can be easily stolen. Zeus attacks are intended to transfer large amounts of money to criminals and avoid any interaction from large businesses. More...

This new Online Safety Bill states that ISP’s and mobile telecoms should give porn-free internet connection by default. However, if an adult wants, he can choose an uncensored porn - allowed version, which will provide sites with adult content that has 18+ verification systems. In addition, This Bill wants to filter every single Internet enabled electronic device that can download content. More...

Instagram is a popular free photo sharing application for iOS. Recently Instagram creators shared it on website and added it to Android Google Play market for download. However, cybercriminals used it to spread a malicious and rogue version of Instagram for Russian Android users, which is offered in a website that fakes the real one. More...

The Mac OS X Trojan called Sabpab has been updated. It seems that it’s exploiting malformed Word . doc files while some time ago it was only relying on Java vulnerabilities. More...