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10 March 2010 >_UK plastic fraud losses fall for first time in 3 yearsOnline banking losses up though A rise in online banking fraud losses took some of the shine off the overall fall in debit and credit fraud in the UK last year.… 10 March 2010 >_Twitter adds filter to cut phishing linesEvery twt.tl bit helps Twitter has tightened up security procedures in order to curtail phishing attacks against users of the micro-blogging service, which have become rampant over recent weeks.… 10 March 2010 >_Max Clifford takes £1m to drop hack probeKiss and don't tell Celebrity publicist Max Clifford has agreed to accept a £1m plus payoff in exchange for dropping phone hacking allegations against the News of the World.… 10 March 2010 >_Suburban woman accused of using net to recruit terroristsFeds cuff JihadJane A suburban Pennsylvania woman who went by the online alias JihadJane used the internet to recruit Islamic terrorists and to plot the assassination of a Swedish cartoonist who depicted the Prophet Mohammed, according to a federal indictment unsealed Tuesday.… 09 March 2010 >_Fraud-prevention service ponies up m for 'false' adsAgrees to safeguard customer data An Arizona company that sells services designed to prevent identity theft has agreed to pay m to settle charges it oversold their effectiveness and didn't adequately protect sensitive customer data.… 09 March 2010 >_It's official: Adobe Reader is world's most-exploited appThe new Microsoft Adobe's ubiquitous Reader application has replaced Microsoft Word as the program that's most often targeted in malware campaigns, according to figures compiled by F-Secure.… 09 March 2010 >_New Internet Explorer code-execution attacks go wildIE 6 and 7 users targeted Online thugs are exploiting a security bug in earlier versions of Internet Explorer that allows them to remotely execute malicious code, Microsoft warned on Tuesday.… What is your recession sales strategy? 09 March 2010 >_FA launches security probe after England team buggedLancaster Gate-gate Reported attempts to sell recordings of conversations between England squad players and coaches have sparked a security breach investigation at the FA.… 09 March 2010 >_Smartphone app botnet experiment blows up a stormWeatherFist shows phone vulnerability, devs claim Security researchers fooled nearly 8,000 iPhone and Android users into joining a mobile smartphone "botnet" under the guise of installing an apparently innocuous weather app.… 09 March 2010 >_Vodafone ships Mariposa-infected HTC MagicAndroid phone comes riddled with bots Updated Vodafone has been blamed for shipping Mariposa botnet malware and other nasties on a HTC Magic Android smartphones it supplied.… 08 March 2010 >_Thailand approves extradition of credit card hack suspectLosses top 3m A criminal court in Thailand has approved the extradition to the US of a Malaysian man suspected of participating in credit card thefts of more than 2m, according to a local news report.… 08 March 2010 >_'Crazy' man cuffed for plotting cyber extortion schemeThreatened to drag firm 'through the muddiest of waters' A California man was charged with extortion after he allegedly threatened to send millions of emails and social networking messages that maligned a large life insurance company unless he was paid almost 0,000.… 08 March 2010 >_Ubisoft undone by anti-DRM DDoS stormProtests over anti-piracy controls hobble games firm Ubisoft has confirmed its rights management servers were hit by a fierce DDoS attack over the weekend that left some customers unable to play its games for much of Sunday.… 08 March 2010 >_Paypal freezes CryptomeAnd sits on its cash eBay Inc has suspended Cryptome's PayPal account, confiscating donations made to the site in the past two weeks. New York architect John Young has refunded around ,300 to donors.… What is your recession sales strategy?
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