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  Twitter ordered to unmask hate speakers

  Sophos - Naked Security

  Months after hate speech was taken down from Twitter, a French court has ordered the company to hand over details of users who posted anti-Semitic content. Is the uncloaking of the haters worth the erosion of privacy?
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  Anatomy of a phish - how crooks hack legitimate websites to steal your details

  Sophos - Naked Security

  Are you a "safe surfer"?
  
  What about sites that were perfectly good yesterday, but today are serving phishing pages for the crooks?
  
  Paul Ducklin takes you on a four-country phishing trip...
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  Pirated App Stores on iOS?

  TrendLabs - Malware Blog

  In the past couple of weeks, there has been some breathless reporting about how iOS users could now install pirated apps without having to jailbreak their phones. This was made possible by certain Chinese app store-like services. Some of the reporting has been wondering how this was possible, but anyone with knowledge of iOS enterprise [...]

  Post from: Trendlabs Security Intelligence Blog - by Trend Micro
  
  Pirated App Stores on iOS?

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  Big Bank Mules Target Small Bank Businesses

  Krebs on Security

  A $170,000 cyberheist last month against an Illinois nursing home provider starkly illustrates how large financial institutions are being leveraged to target security weaknesses at small to regional banks and credit unions.

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  Upswing in Ransomware Activity

  Symantec Security Response Blogs

  As we predicted toward the end of last year, we are once again seeing an upswing in ransomware activity in 2013.

  
  

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  Monday review - the hot 24 stories of the week

  Sophos - Naked Security

  It's weekly roundup time.
  
  Here's everything we've written in the past seven days.
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  2013 Security Trends

  CSO Online

  In looking at the security landscape for this year, two trends are clear. Cloud computing and BYOD programs will continue to flourish. Both present a similar challenge to businesses: placing control of data into the hands of third parties or on third party devices.
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  Memories of the Slammer worm - ten years later

  Sophos - Naked Security

  Ten years ago to the day, we published an FAQ about a computer worm called Slammer.
  
  It was aptly named. If you were in IT back in 2003, I'm sure you remember it well...
  
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  Not-so anonymous Anonymouses head off to prison over PayPal DDoS

  Sophos - Naked Security

  Four young Englishmen who went on an Anonymous rampage back in 2010 weren't as anonymous as they might have hoped.
  
  They were traced, identified and arrested...now two of them are on their not-so-anonymous way to prison.
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  CAN-SPAM spammers with a sense of humor

  Sophos - Naked Security

  SophosLabs researcher Richard Wang ran into a unusual opt-out disclaimer earlier today in an email message. It would appear that this spammer has a sense of humor and is polite to boot!