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Security holes discovered in iPhones, iPads – Yahoo Finance

Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security called the flaws “critical weaknesses” in Apple’s iOS operating system. Internet-connected mobile devices are still subject to fewer attacks than personal computer, but they could eventually prove a juicy …
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AVG Warns of Malicious Crank Calls Coming to Your Computer Phone – Yahoo Finance

–(BUSINESS WIRE)– AVG Technologies, a leading provider of internet and mobile security, today warned of newly emerging social engineering attacks on users of the … saying their PCs have been checked for viruses and that a ‘fatal virus’ was found.
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APWG Report: More than One Third of Web Host Victims Repeatedly Exploited By Cybercrime Gangs – Yahoo Finance

WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)– The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) is reporting this week that more than one-third of respondents to a new Web Vulnerabilities Survey were repeat victims of phishing attacks that resulted in a successful establishment of …
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Will the Attack on the IMF Compromise Cloud Computing? – Yahoo Finance

The hackers carried out the attack using a method known as “spear phishing”, where an individual is tricked into opening a phony email link carrying a virus. The infiltration had utilized sophisticated code designed specifically to attack the IMF.
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