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The passwords of 44,000 ?inactive? accounts for addons.mozilla,org have been inadvertently exposed. But Mozilla say it?s nothing to worry about. Chris Lyon, Mozilla’s director of infrastructure security posted the following on the Mozilla Security Blog: "On December 17th, Mozilla was … Continue reading

Fax machine?s have become the new target of Pro-Wikileaks hacktivists. Previously it was the websites of firms who had withdrawn their service from Wikileaks that had been targeted. The new Leakflood mission has encouraged activists to send faxes to Amazon, … Continue reading

A second denial of service attack hit Wikileaks on Tuesday. This follows attempts on Sunday to wipe the site from the face of the web in the run-up to the controversial release of hundreds of thousands of US diplomatic cables.The … Continue reading

British nuclear power station Haysham 1 suffered an ?unplanned outage?, one of two reactors had to be taken offline. EDF, who own the power station, have categorically denied any link to the Stuxnet worm. Suggestions that the sophisticated Stuxnet worm … Continue reading

The privacy rules on Facebook aren?t as tight as they would have users believe. The Wall street Journal revealed that some of it?s most popular apps siphon off personal information internet tracking out fits and ad firms. According to WSJ, … Continue reading

Symantec have finally secured their some what surreal HackIsWack competition website. Symantec have collaborated with rapper Snoop Dogg to raise awareness about malware and identity theft. the site is intended to provide a forum for a rap competition. Users post … Continue reading

Algerian hackers made a slight mistake when they defaced the website of an English stately home instead of the website for Belvoir Fortress in Israel. The cyber-jihadis of Dz-seC, a previously unknown group, commandeers the website of Belvoir Castle in … Continue reading

AV-test.org is a group with over 25 years experience in anti-virus research and data security. And they have awarded Microsoft Security Essentials their certificate of approval. A total of 19 AV and security applications were tested, all but 4 got … Continue reading

Symantec researchers have outted an Android gaming App that tracks user?s locations so that they can be secretly monitored in real time. Known as Tapsnake, the free app is an Android version of the old school video game. but that?s … Continue reading

A kernel-level vulnerability has been identified by researchers, and is present in all Windows versions even W7. The flaw allows attackers to gain escalated privileges and possibly remotely execute malicious code. The buffer overflow can be used to crash vulnerable … Continue reading