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- Android wallpaper app stealing user data and sending it to China
- Black Hat USA 2010: A recession proof conference?
- Apple improves App Store security
- ATMs hacked and spitting up money at Black Hat
- Trojan masquerades as iPhone jailbreaking software
- Authentication management platform for any and every authentication factor
- Google has two times more malware than Bing, Yahoo! and Twitter combined
- New assurance mark of software application security
- Sourcefire's open source framework for deep threat inspection
- 100 million Facebook pages published on torrent site
- Cell-phone call interception demonstration at Defcon might not be a sure thing
- Critical ToolTalk Database Server Parser vulnerability discovered
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The revelation that an application for Android that is being sold on Google's Android Market is sending out information regarding your phone shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone - it is patently obvious that with the huge amounts of applications sold for Apple and Android devices, some malicious applications can slip through the cracks and end up on the market. 
Delivering on his promise, security researcher Barnaby Jack has managed to make two unpatched ATMs from two major vendors spit out cash during his demonstration at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. He says that, as far as he knows, criminals aren't currently using his exploits, but that there was a thwarted attempt that used many techniques he used himself. 
Barracuda released its 2010 Midyear Security Report, revealing data from two key areas: search engine malware and Twitter use and crime rate. The purpose of the study was to understand the scope of the problem and to identify the types of topics used by malware distributors, and to model normal user behavior on Twitter and identify features indicating illegitimate account use. 
A compilation of Facebook pages of 100 million users of the popular social network is available for download on a torrent site, courtesy of hacker Ron Bowes of Skull Security. User names and profile page URLs are available in the torrent, and by following them personal information (address, birth date, phone numbers, etc.), friends and their picture can be be viewed.
Designing Network Security is a book that will teach you how to secure your corporate network infrastructure. Starting with security fundamentals, you'll learn how to define a security policy for your enterprise and how to implement it, then finish with learning from examples of practical implementation concerning physical and network infrastructure.
A 23-year old Slovenian hacker that goes by the handle "Iserdo" has been arrested for developing the code that allowed the three alleged Spanish Mariposa botnet herders to infect some 13 million personal, corporate, bank and government computers in more than 190 countries.
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