10 crazy IT security tricks that actually work

Now that I am recommending it, but a good read.

Wikileaks releases Syria Files, 2.4 million government related emails

Wikileaks says its latest release shines a light on the inner workings of Syria's government and on Western hypocrisy

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Internet will vanish Monday for 300,000 infected computers

As many as 300,000 PCs and Macs will drop off the Internet in about 65 hours unless their owners heed last-minute calls to scrub their machines of malware.

DNSChanger's victims to be removed from the net

Schneier's So You Want to Be a Security Expert

Good article for the newbies trying to get into this industry.

Trend Micro AV breached & backdoored

A hacker claims to have breached and backdoored security and antivirus software firm Trend Micro due to 'pseudo-security' as well as SYKES which runs support services for Trend Micro. According to Pastebin and a dump for 'proof' of the breach, the hacker claims to still be in control of a backdoor into the security firm.

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30 June - Leap Second problem

Apparently, there the clocks had to be inserted with another second on 30-June (details here). This did not go well with the applications. Issues faced described here.

Indian Navy secrets stolen and sent to China

Computers in India’s primary eastern seafront naval establishment at Visakhapatnam were reportedly infected with spyware that sent classified information to IP addresses in China.

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