International law enforcement activity has taken out the botnet used by the Beebone worm – polymorphic malware that threatened thousands of computers worldwide. Botnet? Polymorphic? Downloader? We explain …
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What a lot of patches! 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Watch the latest episode of our weekly fun-but-serious security news video. It only takes a minute!
Tracking report was wrong, says Facebook …but there is a bug that needs fixing
Facebook has responded to privacy claims made by Belgian researchers but admitted that a “bug” may have caused inadvertent tracking of some users.
The mobile “security gap” – Pinterest and Yammer the latest gappy apps
Pinterest and Yammer are the latest official mobile apps that didn’t do HTTPS correctly, leaving users at risk of imposters and phishing.
DEA sued over “suspicionless” mass surveillance of Americans’ phone records
Human Rights Watch and EFF are suiing the drug agency, along with the FBI, DOJ and the USA itself, to make sure they torch the bulk surveillance program and purge its mountain of records.
ISPs ordered to hand over names and addresses of illegal file sharers
In a landmark case, a Hollywood studio won the rights to unmask alleged pirates of the movie The Dallas Buyers Club.
Linux Australia gets pwned, rooted, RATted and botted
Linux Australia had a bit of a nightmare Easter Weekend. While the rest of us were loafing at the beach, the Penguinistas from Down Under were owning up to a pretty extensive cyberintrusion.
After School app grows up after child safety criticisms
Like many apps, ‘After School’ has decided to grow up and start taking toxic chat and threats of violence seriously. It’s a welcome sign of maturation. 
White House hackers accessed schedule of President Obama’s whereabouts
It’s unclassified, but it’s still highly sensitive, officials say. It’s just one non-public set of data gleaned by intruders who may have slipped in via the State Department’s system. 
Apple fixes loads of security holes in OS X, iOS, Apple TV, Safari
OS X gets a brand new photo application called, er, Photos, but the security fixes are the real reason you want these updates.