Android Tool Designed to Steal Information from PCs

Security researchers from F-Secure have managed to locate an interesting Android hack tool identified as HackTool:Android/UsbCleaver.A, allows anyone to steal sensitive information from a PC by connecting an Android phone to it. The hacker must install an application called USB Cleaver on his/her Android device. Once executed, the app downloads...

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Linux 3.10 Is Out With a New Method of SSD Caching

Linux 3.10 was released by Linus Torvalds last night, bringing with it a new method of SSD caching and some upgrades to the Radeon graphics driver.  The two most significant changes in Linux 3.10 are the aforementioned SSD caching "and support for the newer Radeon graphics cores' video decoder," Leemhuis wrote. "The Radeon driver in the...

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Beware of Unpatched Backdoor in Atlassian Crowd Authentication Service

Over 25,000 companies from all over the world rely on Atlassian’s solutions, including organizations from the automotive, consulting, education, engineering, entertainment, government, health and other industries. According to the advisory published by Command Five, Crowd users should update their installations as soon as possible because...

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Diet spam campaign have moved to Instagram

The messages that make the rounds on Instagram show pictures of fruit. The pictures are accompanied by a bogus BBC News message which promotes an “exclusive offer” for a fruit diet. In some cases, the spammers continue to trick users by claiming that the diet has been recommended by Dr. Oz. Unfortunately, the Instagram spam run appears to...

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Facebook Is Working On Mobile News App Reader

According to the Wall Street Journal, Facebook is working on a service that include iPhone users provides news . The business newspaper relies on unnamed sources to come. Organization itself from Facebook Reader news would bundling both users and publishers.  Facebook would already more than a year working on the service. Reader would look...

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Spying Software Found on Chinese Devices

According to Reuters, several pieces of spying software have been identified on several devices owned by Chen, including an iPhone and an iPad he had received shortly after his arrival to the US from the wife of activist Bob Fu, the man who runs the Christian group called ChinaAid.  After fleeing to the US last year in May, Chinese activist...

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Anonymous Social Networking With Your Real Friends : Unface.Me

The world has changed, and it is important for us to face certain realities i.e; there’s a greater reliance on technology,this has led to significantly less face-to-face interactions,even when such interactions occur, rarely are they wholly honest conversations and this leaves most of us desperately resorting to the web to engage in anonymous...

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Facebook Issue May Have Leaked Your Email and Phone Number

Facebook just published a data breach notification on its security blog. You might not immediately notice that from the title of the article, which announces itself as an "Important Message from Facebook's White Hat Program."  The cloud (bad pun intended) is that Facebook's systems made the fault possible in the first place. What Facebook...

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U.S. is Spying on China,Stealing ‘Millions’ of Texts : Edward Snowden

Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden revealed on Saturday that the U.S. is tapping into Chinese mobile carriers to access customers’ text messages. It’s not just a few messages, either. Snowden told the South China Morning Post that millions of Chinese text messages are being harvested by the U.S. “China should set up a national information...

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Android Ransomware

These days, fake Antivirus programs that run under Windows look just as good as real, valid antivirus tools. They'll run a scan for free—a fast one, since there's no actual scanning going on. However, to remove the imaginary malware found by the scan, you'll have to pay up. In a recent blog post, Symantec researcher Joji Hamada reported that...

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