An anonymous reader sends news from The Washington Post’s Security Fix blog of a new Trojan horse program that takes click fraud to the next level .
More: New Click-Fraud Attack Is Stealthiest Yet
Three students in New Jersey are accused of hacking into their school’s computer system to access final exams.
More here: 3 New Jersey Students Charged in H.S. Exam Breach
PC World - Spammers are pumping out an increasing number of garbage messages as they regain their capacity to send spam through hacked PCs, according to the latest statistics released by Google on Wednesday.
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PC World - The latest changes to Twitter are simple and unnoticeable at first, but they can make a world of difference for some users.
Read the rest here: Twitter Updates Make Photos, Squashing Spammers Easier (PC World)
Hubris proved the downfall of a Revere teen-ager, who kept hacking phone networks and using them to attack his enemies even after he learned the FBI was investigating him.
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Minutes after any big celebrity dies, Internet swindlers get to work. They pump out specially created spam e-mails and throw up malicious Web sites to infect victims’ computers, hoping to capitalize on the sudden high demand for information.
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Security experts have strongly criticised suggestions by a government minister that former hackers might play a key role in Britain’s newly announced cybersecurity strategy.
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Federal prosecutors say a 25-year-old contract security guard accused of hacking into computers at the clinic where he worked has been arrested.
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