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Apple iWork passwords cracked
Thursday, 9 February 2012.
ElcomSoft can now recover passwords protecting Apple iWork documents.

Considering the very nature of iWork as an inexpensive, simple-to-use, consumer-oriented product, chances of guessing the right password soon by executing a distributed dictionary attack are very high.

Top reasons for IT layoffs in 2011
Thursday, 9 February 2012.
Based on the data obtained with the help of a data leakage control system, and an in-depth analysis of work time usage by staff, the specialists of Falcongaze analytical department conducted a large-scale survey into the most common reasons of office employee dismissal in Europe in 2011.

Cybercriminals tailoring tactics for maximum appeal
Thursday, 9 February 2012.
Last month saw malware attacks targeting a wide range of potential victims, including gamers looking for a Pro Evolution Soccer 2012 game crack, small business owners concerned about the reputation of their business, and government organizations receiving spoofed messages from US-CERT.

How online communication connects generations
Wednesday, 8 February 2012.
While most respondents wish they knew more about how to keep personal information private (58 percent), and how to safeguard their devices (50 percent), the younger generation wants more information than older respondents about using social networks more safely (38 percent compared to 27 percent).

Satellite telephony encryption cracked
Wednesday, 8 February 2012.
In less than an hour, and with simple equipment, researchers found the crypto key which is needed to intercept telephone conversations. Using open source software and building on their previous research results, they were able to exploit the security weaknesses.

More bogus ad-serving Android apps evade Google's Bouncer
Wednesday, 8 February 2012.
Users searching for games on the official Android Market have lately been heavily targeted by ad-pushing scammers. First it was the fake Temple Run app, and now a string of bogus copies of popular iPhone games supposedly developed by Rovio Mobile, the developers of the famous Angry Birds game.

Public beta of Flash Player sandbox for Firefox is out
Tuesday, 7 February 2012.
A little over a year after the implementation of a Flash Player sandbox into Google Chrome, Adobe has announced the release of a public beta of its new Flash Player sandbox for the Firefox browser.

Convincing tax-themed spam leads to malware
Tuesday, 7 February 2012.
With the US tax season underway, users are constantly being targeted with tax-themed spam. The latest one to be spotted is an email purportedly coming from Inuit, a US company that makes QuickBooks, a popular piece of software for bookkeeping.

Smaller DDoS attacks can be deadlier than big ones
Monday, 6 February 2012.
Contrary to conventional thinking that large bandwidth cyber attacks wreak the most damage on enterprises, security experts at Radware instead found that bigger problems usually come in small packages.

Hungarian sentenced for hacking, blackmailing Marriot
Monday, 6 February 2012.
A Hungarian national who tried to blackmail Marriot International into giving him a job by stealing the company's internal documents and threatening to publish them has been sentenced to 30 months in prison by a District of Maryland judge.

The state of cyberwar in the U.S.
Monday, 6 February 2012.
As a country that is used to being dominant in the more traditional sense, the U.S. has been working to come to grips with a new sense of supremacy as a result of cyber threats, according to DiploNews. The U.S. has taken steps towards allowing cyberwarfare.

VeriSign hack: Reactions from the security community
Friday, 3 February 2012.
VeriSign admitted it was hacked in 2010 and cannot identify what data was stolen. Here are comments on the situation that Help Net Security received from industry veterans from Entrust, BH Cosulting, Imperva, LogLogic, SystemExperts Corporation and Comodo.

Attackers use fake friends to blend into Facebook
Friday, 3 February 2012.
A new Barracuda Labs study provides an example of an increasing number of attackers move to social networks to carry out their wares. The study analyzes a random sampling of 2,884 active Facebook accounts to identify key differences between average real user accounts and fake accounts created by attackers and spammers.