While previous "attacks" on jailbroken iPhones were benign, a variation of the same attack quietly extracts personal data from an infected device. Please, folks, change your default passwords.

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The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing a rash of reported online computer intrusions that have resulted in hundreds of thousands of dollars being stolen from school districts in Illinois.

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Facebook’s users are being hit by a virus dubbed ‘Koobface’ that seeks out sensitive details such as credit card numbers.

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Asus has admitted that some of the its Eee Box desktop mini PCs have shipped with a virus.

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Virus Bulletin (VB) conducted its latest test in September, posting the results this month. The security research company evaluated 24 anti-malware products for Windows Server 2008.

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Cyber-criminals have attacked key government and consumer websites, allowing them to steal the personal details of anyone browsing the sites, The Times has learn.

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BitDefender® announced today that BitDefender Security for Linux has won a VB100 Award from Virus Bulletin, adding to the company’s growing list of awards for its proactive threat prevention solutions. BitDefender Security for Linux won the award in the latest Virus Bulletin comparative review on the Ubuntu Linux Server Edition Platform.

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As of May 20, Microsoft has been granted patent number 7,376,970 (hereafter referred to as the '970 patent). The patent was filed on February 20, 2004, and it describes a particular type of proactive anti-virus scanner. The abstract describes the scanner thusly

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