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A gang of hackers known as SwagSec announced at the tail end of last week that they had hacked into Lady Gaga's UK website and made off with a database of names and email addresses of fans. To prove their point, they published the stolen data online. The press reported that a source close to...

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A former college student has admitted taking part in a criminal scheme that used malware to steal and sell large databases of faculty and alumni, change grades, and siphon funds from other students' accounts. He used thumbdrives with malware he created to compromise the machines. At first, I...

The Metropolitan Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) has Link Removed that it has arrested a 19 year old man. Intelligence learned of an address, then seized the computer for forensic examination. Read Full Story: Met Police arrest alleged hacker in Essex - The H Security: News and Features

Following a hacker attack on Turkish government web sites, the Turkish police have announced that they have made the first arrests. Read Full Story: Turkish police announce Anonymous attack arrests - The H Security: News and Features

IDG News Service - He was hired to fix their computers, but police say that Trevor Harwell instead installed spyware software that took candid photos of his clients in various states of undress. Harwell had been a Macintosh specialist with a Los Angeles-area home computer repair company...

IDG News Service - Web mail users at Yahoo and Hotmail have been hit with the same kind of targeted attacks that were disclosed earlier this week by Google, according to security software vendor Trend Micro. Trend Micro described two similar attacks against Yahoo Mail and Windows Live Hotmail...

IDG News Service - The next time a website says to download new software to view a movie or fix a problem, think twice. There's a pretty good chance that the program is malicious. In fact, about one out of every 14 programs downloaded by Windows users turns out to be malicious, Link Removed...

Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) claimed credit on Thursday for taking down one of the biggest producers of spam e-mail in a joint effort with federal authorities across the United States. The world's biggest software company said its legal action against the operator of the Rustock 'botnet' -- or...

UK hacker Ashley Mitchell has admitted to stealing online poker chips from online gaming firm Zynga and laundering them through several facebook accounts in the hope of evading detection, after penetrating the poker game system. Link Removed due to 404 Error The poker chips that were...

In te last 48 hours. Residents in Queensland and also has started in New South Whales of Australia have been facing fake Microsoft Virus alerts via the phone and in some cases via email. These callers and sender say they are from Microsoft and other computer companies saying your computer is...

http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2009/12/decline-in-web-increase-in-p2p-attacks-predicted-for-2010.ars Cybercriminals have already begun shifting their focus from websites to file-sharing networks when it comes to dispensing malware, and will continue with this trend throughout 2010...

http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2009/12/malware-authors-grabbing-scarce-ipv4-address-blocks.ars Malware distributors, apparently tired of facing the constant threats of disconnection, are taking advantage of lax background checks in the system for distributing IP address blocks and buying...

Windows 7 may be secure, but are Windows users safe? Windows 7 users got a nice surprise on Tuesday when Microsoft released its first set of security patches since unveiling the new operating system last month. Of the 15 bugs patched, none affected Windows 7. When Microsoft launched Windows...