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Hackers steal £56,000 in bitcoins from exchange site Bitcoinica
Bitcoin exchange site Bitcoinica suspended its operations on Friday after hackers managed to steal 18,547 bitcoins - valued at about £56,000 (US$90,000) - from its online wallet. The user database probably was compromised as well, Bitcoinica's administrators said in an announcement posted on the site's home page.
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Cellcrypt announces voice encryption tie-up with Verizon
British mobile security firm Cellcrypt is partnering with carrier giant Verizon to sell its voice encryption technology for mobiles and smartphones to the US Government, the pair have announced.
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GCHQ releases secret mathematical papers by Alan Turing
Pioneer computer scientist and code breaker's notes finally declassified
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Chinese residents charged with selling pirated software worth $100m
Xiang Li, 35, and Chun Yan Li, 33, of Chengdu, China, are accused of operating websites, including Crack99.com, that sold allegedly pirated copies of software. The two defendants sold pirated products from 150 software companies between April 2008 and June 2011, according to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
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Flashback Mac botnet shrinks, says Symantec
The number of Macs infected with the Flashback malware has plummeted in the last few days, antivirus vendor Symantec said today.
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Google and Facebook vulnerable to single-sign-on attacks
The single sign-on protocols that allow users to sign in to a range of websites with their Google or Facebook accounts suffer from security flaws that could allow scammers to log in as somebody else, security researchers have reported.
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Armageddon DDoS botnet using Apache Killer exploit
DDoS botnet Armageddon integrates a relatively new exploit known as Apache Killer in the malware's latest version, distributed denial-of-service mitigation vendor Arbor Networks have announced this week.
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Terrorist hackers waiting in the wings, says F-Secure
Concern about cyberterrorism was evident this week among security experts at the RSA security conference, who find that some people with extremist views have the technical knowledge that could be used to hack into systems.
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Google Wallet PIN vulnerable through brute-force attack
Google Wallet, the new NFC system that purports to turn your phone into a credit card, can be compromised using a brute-force attack - and that raises questions about its security.
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Satellite communication encryption cracked by scientists
Researchers at a university in Bochum, Germany claim to have cracked encryption algorithms of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) that are used to secure certain civilian satellite phone communications.
