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Google Disables Android Malware; Takes Heat Over App Security

SPENCER E. ANTE And AMIR EFRATI The Wall Street Journal 03/07/2011
Ads, Promising Photos Of Dead Osama Bin Laden, Deliver Viruses

As U.S. officials debate whether or not to release bloody pictures of a dead Osama bin Laden, hackers and scammers are using links and emails promising those pictures to try to infect your computer.

Google Disables Android Malware; Takes Heat Over App Security

A major software attack on mobile phones has put pressure on Google Inc. to do more to secure its online store for smartphone applications. The company behind the now ubiquitous Android operating system came under fire after computer-security experts last week uncovered more than 50 malicious applications that were uploaded to and distributed from Google's Android Market.

Malware 'Aimed at Iran Hit Five Sites'

The New York Times 02/13/2011

iPad users targeted by hackers

Claudine Beaumont Telegraph 04/27/2010
Malware 'Aimed at Iran Hit Five Sites'

The Stuxnet software worm repeatedly sought to infect five industrial facilities in Iran over a 10-month period, a new report says, in what could be a clue into how it might have infected the Iranian uranium enrichment complex at Natanz.

iPad users targeted by hackers

Security experts have warned that Apple iPad users are being targeted by cyber criminals. Hackers are trying to dupe iPad owners in to downloading a fake iTunes update on their Windows computer, which, when installed, creates a backdoor for cyber criminals, allowing them to remotely access the machine or even use the computer to send spam messages.

Which Malware Should Businesses Worry About This Year?

Internet security company Webroot recently surveyed over 800 IT professionals in the US, UK and Australia to find out what are their biggest concerns are for 2010.

Cyber attacks touching celebrities, governments

The death of Michael Jackson and Internet attacks in the United States and South Korea share a cyber-crime connection. Almost immediately following Jackson's death, antivirus software companies began seeing links related to the singer that were in fact snares for users to download malignant software, or "malware." Similar sites cropped up related to the death of Farrah Fawcett.