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Nigerian man gets 12 years for $1.3m 419 scam
Hunting 'mugu' in America
A Nigerian man has been sentenced to more than 12 years in US prison for orchestrating an advance payment scam that bilked victims out of more than $1.3m.?
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Spammers latch onto Ping to pump iPhone survey scams
Quick off the mark
Spammers have been quick off the mark in exploiting Apple's new iTunes social network to punt survey scams.?
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Symantec Snoop Dogg rap contest site rickrolled
#hackiswacked
Symantec's attempts to link up with Snoop Dogg to launch a cybercrime rap contest have descended into farce after it emerged that vulnerabilities with a dedicated site can be easily rickrolled.?
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Phone bugging scandal reignited as NotW suspends reporter
The story that refuses to die
New allegations of phone hacking at the News of the World have resulted in the suspension of one of the Sunday paper's reporters, pending legal and disciplinary action over allegations of tapping into the voicemail messages of an unnamed television personality.?
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Microsoft freshens retro code lock-down tool
Teaching old apps new tricks
Microsoft has released a new version of a software tool that developers and administrators can use to harden older applications against common vulnerabilities.?
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iTunes update plugs WebKit flaw
Ping-pong
The latest version of iTunes for Windows addresses 13 security vulnerabilities, as well as adding much-publicised social networking functionality.?
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Symantec and Snoop Dogg launch cybercrime rap contest
Now thass geekster
Symantec has teamed up with rapper Snoop Dogg to launch a cybercrime rap contest.?
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Cyber-jihadists deface home of teddy bears' picnic
Get their Belvoirs mixed up
Geographically mixed-up Algerian hackers made themselves look rather silly by defacing the website of an English stately home instead of Belvoir Fortress in Israel, their intended target.?
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Feds crack phone clone scam that cost Sprint $15m
More than 10,000 accounts spoofed
Federal prosecutors have uncovered a scam that used tens of thousands of cloned cellphones to defraud Sprint out of $15m in lost long distance revenue.?
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Microsoft releases FixIt for critical flaw in 100 apps
Relief for Firefox, Nvidia, PowerPoint
Microsoft has released a software tool that helps system administrators protect PCs against a critical class of vulnerabilities found in more than 100 applications from a variety of software makers.?
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Survey scammers serve up supposed shelter from survey scams
Kind of ironic when you think about it
Cheeky scammers are offering prospective marks an application that supposedly shields them from exposure to survey scams.?
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Russian cops cuff 10 ransomware Trojan suspects
Cybercrime gang allegedly raked in $16m
Russian police have arrested 10 suspected members of a ransomware gang who allegedly made millions via a locked computer malware scam.?
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Hardware hackers defeat quantum crypto
Tripping the light fantastic
Security researchers using hardware hacking techniques have unearthed generic flaws in supposedly ultra-secure quantum cryptography systems.?
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CarderPlanet founder charged in $9.4m RBS WorldPay hack
And then there were nine
A man accused of being one of the most prolific sellers of credit-card data has been charged with participating in the brazen hack of RBS WorldPay in 2008 that funneled about $9.4m out of the payment processor in just 12 hours.?
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Judge bashes warrantless cellphone tracking
Tower data protected by Fourth Amendment
A federal magistrate has ruled that information pulled from cellphone towers provides such an intimate portrait of a customer's life that government investigators must get a warrant before obtaining it.?
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