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Jeremy Kirk
Member since: April 2011
Bio: Jeremy Kirk is London correspondent at the IDG News Service and reports on security; chips; Microsoft Europe.
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Microsoft has released a temporary fix for a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer 8, which was used by hackers in a prominent attack against the U.S. Department of Labor's website.
13 hours 41 min ago
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Intruders used to creep in through ventilation ducts. Now they break in using the software that controls the ventilation.
14 hours 11 min ago
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A stealthy malicious software program is taking hold in some of the most popular Web servers, and researchers still don't know why.
1 day 9 hours ago
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China's government and military appear to be directly involved in cyberattacks against the U.S., according to a report released Monday by the U.S. Department of Defense.
2 days 12 hours ago
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Hackers could have turned up the heat in one of Google's offices in Sydney. Literally.
2 days 14 hours ago
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McAfee plans to acquire Stonesoft, a Helsinki-based maker of firewalls, for US$389 million in cash, the companies said Monday.
3 days 7 hours ago
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A partnership that sought to make it easy for Americans and Canadians to buy the virtual currency bitcoin has dissolved into a US$75 million lawsuit.
6 days 11 hours ago
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D-Link has published beta patches for vulnerabilities in the firmware of many of its IP surveillance cameras, which could allow a hacker to intercept a video stream.
1 week 9 hours ago
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Australia's government is keeping a tight hold on proposed data breach notification legislation that could become law before a federal election in September.
1 week 9 hours ago
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A subdomain of a U.S. Department of Labor website appeared offline on Wednesday after an apparent hack that looks similar to a known China-based hacking campaign nicknamed DeepPanda.
1 week 13 hours ago
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Aging networking protocols still employed by nearly every Internet-connected device are being abused by hackers to conduct distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
1 week 1 day ago
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Mozilla sent a cease-and-desist letter on Tuesday to a European company that created a piece of spyware masquerading itself as the Firefox browser.
1 week 1 day ago
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If you run a bank and use an IP video camera from D-Link, you may want to pay attention to this.
1 week 2 days ago
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McAfee said it has found a vulnerability in Adobe Systems' Reader program that reveals when and where a PDF document is opened.
1 week 3 days ago
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The man suspected of participating in a large DDoS attack on an antispam organization that caused intermittent Internet hiccups drove around Spain in a van he used as a mobile office, Spain's Interior Ministry said Sunday.
1 week 3 days ago
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A U.S. judge ruled Thursday that Motorola Mobility is entitled to substantially less royalties than it wanted from Microsoft for the company's use of wireless and video-encoding patents in its Xbox products.
1 week 6 days ago
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Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox has temporarily shelved plans to support a competing currency, litecoin, the company said Thursday.
2 weeks 9 hours ago
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A well-known cyber-spying tool called Gh0st RAT is still being employed in stealthy malware attacks, according to a new report from security firm FireEye.
2 weeks 1 day ago
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Australia has charged a 24-year-old man who allegedly defaced a government website earlier this month and claims to be the leader of LulzSec, a rogue inactive hacking group.
2 weeks 1 day ago
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Twitter users in the Netherlands are being targeted by a piece of malware that hijacks their accounts, according to security vendor Trusteer.
2 weeks 2 days ago
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The largest bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox, is in a continuing battle with miscreants trying to manipulate the price of the virtual currency.
2 weeks 3 days ago
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Wikileaks' latest release is billed as a transcript of a "secret meeting," but it may more accurately be termed a promotion.
2 weeks 6 days ago
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A Russian porn site is delivering malware that uses the victims' computers to mine bitcoins, according to research from ThreatTrack Security.
2 weeks 6 days ago
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The largest Bitcoin exchange in the U.S., BitFloor, has closed again, this time due to issues with its bank account, according to its founder.
3 weeks 7 hours ago
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Thirteen popular home and small office routers contain security problems that could allow a hacker to snoop or modify network traffic, according to new research.
3 weeks 9 hours ago
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