Windows malware tries to infect Android devices connected to PCs

Computerworld Security: January 24, 2014
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Windows malware tries to infect Android devices connected to PCs

A new computer Trojan program attempts to install mobile banking malware on
Android devices when they're connected to infected PCs, according to researchers
from Symantec.
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1. Why I did it: Former hacker Mitchell Frost explains his motivation
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2. Group charges Google+ plan violates privacy pact in complaint with FTC
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3. As Target breach unfolds, information vanishes from Web
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4. Google dismisses eavesdropping threat in Chrome
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5. U.S. watchdog calls for NSA to end phone records program
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6. Target breach shows payment system security needs less talk, more action
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7. U.S. privacy watchdog: NSA phone records program is illegal
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Why I did it: Former hacker Mitchell Frost explains his motivation

In 2006, Mitchell Frost, then a 19-year-old college student at the University of
Akron, used the school's computer network to control the botnets he had created.
Authorities say between August 2006 and March 2007, Frost launched a series of
denial of service (DDOS) attacks against several conservative web sites,
including Billoreilly.com, Anncoulter.com and Rudy Giuliani's campaign site,
Joinrudy2008.com. He is accused of taking down the O'Reilly site five times, as
well as disrupting the University of Akron's network during a DDOS attack Frost
allegedly launched on a gaming server hosted by the university.
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Group charges Google+ plan violates privacy pact in complaint with FTC

Google, through its plan to link Gmail addresses to its Google+ social network,
is violating a privacy agreement the company made with the U.S. Federal Trade
Commission, a long-time critic of the company's privacy practices said in a
complaint to the agency.
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As Target breach unfolds, information vanishes from Web

At least three security companies have scrubbed information related to Target
from the Web, highlighting the ongoing sensitivity around one of the
largest-ever data breaches.
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Google dismisses eavesdropping threat in Chrome

Google said there's no threat from a speech recognition feature in its Chrome
browser that a developer said could be used to listen in on users.
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U.S. watchdog calls for NSA to end phone records program

In a report to be released Thursday, the U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties board
says the National Security Agency's bulk collection of phone records is illegal
and should stop, according to the New York Times and the Washington Post, which
received advance copies of the document.
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Target breach shows payment system security needs less talk, more action

Retailers and banks must move quickly to figure out who should be responsible
for better securing the payments system network or risk having Congress decide
for them.
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8842828/823929835/653274/39/

U.S. privacy watchdog: NSA phone records program is illegal

The U.S. National Security Agency should abandon its collection of U.S.
telephone records because the surveillance program is illegal, a government
privacy oversight board said.
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