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The year’s off to a rousing start, with all sorts of interesting security news this week: Wikipedia led a temporarily successful foray against SOPA and PIPA by joining numerous websites that went dark for a day; the founder of Megaupload …

This week, a phishing attack landed in the inboxes of several US government agencies, spoofing the US government’s cyber security watchdog and response agency. Complete with attachments, the e-mail’s payload was a nasty little virus that has already been tracked …

In Part 2 of our look at what you can expect in the coming year, faint rumblings out of Japan suggest that one prediction from Part 1 of this article has already come true. If the very real prospect of …

In a turn of events appropriate for the most tumultuous year in cybercrime, 2011’s body is barely cold and we’re already smelling something suspicious from its decomposing carcass. Rumors of two worms, one well-known and the other relatively new on …

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and what better way to take a look back at the year in spam than poke a little fun at the moronic state of the crap that invades our inboxes? In a …

In a fine example of international relations, Russia and the United States exchanged gifts early this year when they announced that the two countries are entering a new level of cooperation on cyber threat analysis and the global war on …

Stuxnet, arguably the most interesting and bone chilling discovery in the history of computer security threats, is back in the news this week. This time, however, it’s brought a friend – one familiar to security experts and IT personnel alike. …

There are always statistics about spam, but more often than not they are there to wake you up to just how damaging and costly spam could be. Regardless, you can learn quite a bit from stats; and the ones below …

Spam; one of the few four letter words that is still considered unacceptable anywhere. Whether it arrives in the form of a junk email advertising for prescription drugs or a shared post in Google+, spam is one of the most …

With the world about to end on Tuesday, you probably have more pressing matters on your agenda, like kissing your kids goodbye, donning your tinfoil hat, booking the first available space ark to Mars, and spending some last special moments …