An app distributed by Google's Android Market has collected private data from millions of users and forwarded it to servers China, validating Apple's uniquely strong stance on mobile security in the iPhone App Store.

The exploit, tied to an app that appeared to simply load free custom background wallpapers, was downloaded "anywhere from...

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As the technology industry prepares for the adoption of USB 3.0 (in anticipation of the increased speeds), Intel  has been hard at work on technology that will be far faster. In fact, it is capable of transferring the entire printed catalog of material within the Library of Congress in only a minute and a half. The technology makes use of silicon and light to achieve this...

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Free tools fix a Windows Shell vulnerability that allows shortcuts to execute malicious code. The tools from G Data Software and Sophos also fix a problem in Microsoft's solution that turns icons into "broken" generic white icons. The Windows Shell vulnerability gives cybercriminals many ways to infect a PCs:...

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The U.S. Government Library of Congress Copyright Office announced today new policy changes that let owners of electronic devices break security protections within the device to allow non-authorized code and programs to be run on the operating system:...

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Security firm, AVG, says a two-month study has resulted in its discovery of a network of 1.2 million malware-infected computers controlled by cybercriminals who were using the Eleonore exploit toolkit, commercial attack software which enables cyber criminals to infect and monitor compromised PCs.

According to AVG it researched 165 Eleonore toolkits in use by cyber...

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Internet Explorer 8's Smartscreen Filter, used to secure users from dodgy websites, has stopped its one billionth malware download, Microsoft has proudly announced.

As with similar filters found on browsers such as Mozilla Firefox, the first thing that Smartscreen does for IE8 users is check each site visited against a whitelist of known good sites, further assessing any new...

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The tendency of spammers to use shortened URLs to evade detection has gone from last year's clever exploit to this year's mainstream tactic, MessageLabs has reported.

In the second quarter of 2009, emails using shortened URLs exceeded 1 in 200 emails only once, the company's July 2010 Intelligence report notes:...

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Researchers at wireless security company AirTight Networks have uncovered a vulnerability in the widely used WPA2 security protocol, part of the 802.11 standard. The vulnerability, termed "Hole 196", which can be exploited by attackers already authenticated to the network, allows decryption of data sent by other users across the network.

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For the second time in two months, Mozilla on Friday rushed out a fix for its Firefox browser to patch a problem with an update issued just days before.

Mozilla shipped Firefox 3.6.8 on Friday to patch a single security problem and deal with what Mike Beltzner, director of Firefox, called "a stability problem that affected some pages with embedded plug-ins."

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