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Radiation hazard sign FreeBSD bug gives untrusted root access

A security bug in the latest version of FreeBSD can be exploited to grant unprivileged users complete control over the operating system

Malware derails Indian business school admission tests

Politician wade in as exams for 8,000 applicants postponed

EFF seeks answers from Facebook police

Surveillance 2.0

Sequoia opens kimono with e-voting code handout

'Completely reversed'

Facebook goes live with privacy revamp

Is there an 'enemy of my enemy' setting?

Cameroon leapfrogs Hong Kong in malware hosting blocklist

One in three .cm domains booby-trapped, warns McAfee

PrevX U-turn on Windows update Black screen of Death claim

Updated Paint IT black

Cisco logoCisco and Juniper 'clientless' VPNs expose netizens

No cure for authentication bypass

Warning: biohazardWeb service automates WordPress password cracking

Malefactors debut Hacking as a Service

UK mulls extension of McKinnon judicial review period

Refusal to step in branded 'spineless'

Malicious PDFs can commandeer BlackBerries, RIM warns

Patch available

Foodies sue providers of hacked payment system

Breaches R Us

Russian ransomware blocks net access

New social engineering wheeze appears in east

Anti-spammers urged to gang up

Test suggests collaboration is the way to fight the wrong'uns

Extra spam and malware security for bit.ly

Sophos, VeriSign and Websense to provide belt and braces

Privacy fears prompt Fry to quit Plaxo

A bit of Fry and worry

Prolific penis pill pushers fined almost $19m

At last

Prevx blames Microsoft for black hawk screen down

Patches bestow chocolate teapot status on Windows PCs

Gervais pic used in amusingly rubbish failed bank fraud

Berks borrowed Brent's boatrace but blew it

Notts County Council sprays £82k on PC smut trawl

Funding gap plugging boob

IBM poised to acquire database security start-up for $225m

Guardium makes Big Blue sweat before signing

Web host Daily recovers after Tux-themed defacement

Lock-down follows cartoon penguin attack

Smut-ladened spam disguises WoW Trojan campaign

Pwned and porned

Toshiba worker arrested for selling copy limit busting SW

You can't do that in Japan

McKinnon family 'devastated' by Home Sec's latest knock-back

Options running out for 'suicidal' Pentagon hacker

Gov net disconnections could breach EU law

May scupper free Wi-Fi too

Splinter Cell hack smells more like publicity stunt

Pwn or PR?

Johnson refuses to intervene in McKinnon extradition

'No discretion' says Home Sec

Facebook swipes user's vanity URL

Analysis I am not a number, I am a squaresheep! Or not

iPhone developer hires worm author

Strewth!

US Military cyber forces on the defensive in network battle

Operation Screaming Whimpering Fist

iPhone anti-malware stuck in state of denial

Not needed, says Apple. Won't run, say developers

The rise of targeted attacks

Webcast Expert musings that hit the spot

Climate change hackers leave breadcrumb trail

Is anyone looking?

Bug puts net's most popular DNS app in Bind

Rare but remote

MS unleashes legal attack dogs to lick up COFEE spill

Cryptonomicon

Ralsky jailed for four years over stock fraud spam scam

Godfather of spam sent down

Opera update plugs heap big buffer overflow bug

Major upgrade features baked-in web server tech

Facebookers hit with steamy clickjacking exploit

'Click da button, baby!'

IE bug leaks private details from 50m PDF files

Black hat recon courtesy of Microsoft

Google hoodwinked into pushing Chrome OS scareware

Tamper tantrum

Cisco pumps out iPhone security app

World of IT threats in your pants

Symantec Japan website bamboozled by hacker

Plaintext passwords revealed

iPhone worm hjacks ING customers

Updated No messing this time

First malicious iPhone worm slithers into wild

Jailbreakers under assault