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Chemical and drug makers are the biggest malware magnets
2014-03-24 11:00:00| InfoWorld: Top News
How likely are you to run into Web malware? Depending on the industry you're working in, either not very -- or far more often than you ever imagined.
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Bitcoin-stealing malware hidden in Mt. Gox data dump
2014-03-17 15:36:09| InfoWorld: Top News
An archive containing transaction records from Mt. Gox that was released on the Internet last week by the hackers who compromised the blog of Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles also contains bitcoin-stealing malware for Windows and Mac. Security researchers from antivirus firm Kaspersky Lab analyzed the 620MB file called MtGox2014Leak.zip and concluded that in addition to various Mt. Gox-related documents and data, it contains malicious binary files.
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dump
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Major companies, like Target, often fail to act on malware alerts
2014-03-14 12:15:41| InfoWorld: Top News
Companies that suffer major data breaches almost always portray themselves as victims of cutting edge attack techniques and tools. The reality, though, is often much more mundane. Case in point: Target, which last year was hit with a major data breach that exposed to hackers data on some 40 million credit and debit cards and personal data on another 70 million customers.
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NSA's plans reportedly involve infecting millions of computers with surveillance malware
2014-03-12 22:14:58| InfoWorld: Top News
The U.S. National Security Agency has reportedly been working for the past several years on expanding its ability to infect computers with surveillance malware and creating a command-and-control infrastructure capable of managing millions of compromised systems at a time.
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Android malware detection boosted by university research
2014-03-07 23:21:32| InfoWorld: Top News
With smartphones and tablets increasingly at risk from malware, researchers from North Carolina State University have devised a new and potentially better way to detect it on Android devices. The tool they have developed, called PREC (Practical Root Exploit Containment), is trained to uncover aberrant code written in the C programming language, the language in which they say most malicious Android code is written.
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university
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