The number of hackers attacking banks worldwide jumped 81% from last year, according to figures released at the BlackHat security conference Thursday. Researchers from SecureWorks also reported that hackers going after the company’s credit-union clients increased by 62% from last year.
So why are there so many more hackers this year than last? Joe Stewart, a [...]

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Microsoft Corp. will test a free, advertising-supported version of Works, an already inexpensive package of word processing, spreadsheet and other programs, but would not say whether it is exploring a similar Web-based suite.
The company said Wednesday that a limited number of computer makers will pre-install Microsoft Works 9 SE on new PCs in certain markets, [...]

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“The authors of this worm are more likely to be teenage mischief makers than the organized criminal gangs we typically see authoring financially-motivated malware these days,” said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for the security vendor Sophos PLC.
“As such, it’s not something we would lose an awful lot of sleep over, but there are some [...]

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Thanks to Milo for giving me the heads-up concerning the discomforting news which targets WordPress & Joomla users.
Templates Browser is re-distributing public blog themes which are modified in such a way as to exploit the end user by inserting hidden spam or malware links. A quick search concerning the website pulls up the following links [...]

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