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• Mac botnet generated $10,000 a day for Flashback gang

  Flashback was robbing Google of advertising dollars by redirecting clicks from infected Mac OS X machines and stealing the ad revenue.

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• Anonymous hacks Bureau of Justice, leaks 1.7GB of data

  By Emil Protalinski | May 21, 2012, 4:27pm PDT

  Anonymous has apparently hacked the United States Bureau of Justice Statistics and posted 1.7GB of data belonging to the agency on The Pirate Bay. This is a Monday Mail Mayhem release.

• Facebook account cancellation is malware, not Adobe Flash

  By Emil Protalinski | May 21, 2012, 3:38pm PDT

  If you’re asked to confirm or deny a Facebook account cancellation request, ignore it. Facebook will never ask you this, and chances are someone is looking to install malware on your computer.

• Malware charges users for free Android apps on Google Play

  By Emil Protalinski | May 21, 2012, 8:41am PDT

  Android users are being tricked into paying for free apps. The malware is a new variant of the Android.Opfake family that pushes fake versions of popular Android apps to unsuspecting consumers.

• The Pirate Bay returns, Anonymous hater takes credit for DDoS

  By Emil Protalinski | May 17, 2012, 5:13am PDT

  The Pirate Bay is back online. An Anonymous traitor who goes by the name AnonNyre has claimed responsibility for the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that kept the site offline for days.

• Wikileaks has been under DDoS attack for the last three days

  By Emil Protalinski | May 16, 2012, 5:27pm PDT

  The Pirate Bay is down. Wikileaks is down. Visa was down. Are all these Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks a coincidence? Right now it’s not clear, but something is definitely happening.

• Apple releases QuickTime 7.7.2 for Windows, fixes 17 flaws

  By Emil Protalinski | May 16, 2012, 4:09pm PDT

  Apple QuickTime version 7.7.2 is out, fixing 17 security vulnerabilities in the multimedia framework. This is a security update, meaning no new features have been added. You should still update.

• Anonymous denies it is behind The Pirate Bay DDoS attack

  By Emil Protalinski | May 16, 2012, 11:41am PDT

  The hacktivist group Anonymous has denied allegations that it is behind the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack against The Pirate Bay. Update: The Pirate Bay has confirmed the denial.

• The Pirate Bay hit with massive DDoS attack

  By Emil Protalinski | May 16, 2012, 7:45am PDT

  The Pirate Bay is down for me. Is it down for you? It may be, since the site has confirmed it is experiencing “a quite big” Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. It’s unclear who is behind it.

• Android malware families nearly quadruple from 2011 to 2012

  By Emil Protalinski | May 15, 2012, 10:01pm PDT

  F-Secure has found that between Q1 2011 and Q1 2012, the number of Android malware families has increased from 10 to 37, and the number of malicious Android APKs has increased from 139 to 3,069.

• Google Chrome 19 is out

  By Emil Protalinski | May 15, 2012, 3:01pm PDT

  Google Chrome version 19.0.1084.46 is out, fixing 20 security vulnerabilities in the company’s browser: eight high-severity flaws, seven medium-severity flaws, and five low-severity flaws.