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• Cisco recommends McAfee switch for IronPort customers hit by Sophos flaws

  Cisco Systems has warned customers about critical vulnerabilities in the Sophos antivirus engine included in its Cisco IronPort email and Web security appliances.

• Researcher finds critical vulnerabilities in Sophos antivirus product

  Security researcher Tavis Ormandy discovered critical vulnerabilities in the antivirus product developed by U.K.-based security firm Sophos and advised organizations to avoid using the product on critical systems unless the vendor improves its product development, quality assurance and security response practices.

• Lady Gaga Twitter, Facebook pages recover from iPad 2 scam hacks

  Lady Gaga's Twitter and Facebook pages were hacked on Monday, tricking some of her millions of followers to a scam website looking to suck up victims' personal information.

• Antivirus software sales expected to show strong growth in 2012

  The prevalence with which hackers are handing out headaches to IT security pros will have a big upside for vendors in the coming year, according to new figures from Canalys.

• NSW Privacy Commissioner investigates USB key auction

  The auction of 50 USB keys by RailCorp in Sydney has prompted an investigation by the NSW Privacy Commissioner into possible breaches of privacy laws around the use and distribution of personal information.

• Want data? Scoop up those lost USB keys

  Lost USB memory keys make such rich and easy pickings for personal data that criminals must surely be onto this scam already. Their only risk is getting infected by the damn things.

• Facebook users hit by nasty porn storm

  Facebook users have been bombarded with explicit and violent images in the latest malware campaign aimed at the giant social networking site, a security researcher said.

• Mac OS X Trojan steals processing power to produce Bitcoins

  A newly identified Mac OS X Trojan bundles a component that leverages the processing power of video cards (GPUs) to generate Bitcoins, a popular type of virtual currency.

• Amazon's Silk browser may not be smooth with privacy

  The most interesting feature on Amazon’s newly announced Kindle Fire tablet may be its Silk web browser. The browser promises to improve webpage loading performance by using Amazon’s servers to help render pages.

• Amazon's Silk browser raises privacy, security eyebrows

  Amazon's new Silk browser has raised some eyebrows among privacy and security experts.

• New Mac malware poses as PDF doc

  Security firms today warned Mac users of a new Trojan horse that masquerades as a PDF document.

• BitTorrent web downloads hijacked to push fake antivirus

  The publisher of the uTorrent file-sharing program has admitted to suffering a major security breach that allowed attackers to substitute downloads of its client for malware pushing fake antivirus software.

• iPad sings a sad tune for security vendors

  Is the cost of Windows security driving people to Apple? Afterall, running a Mac without any security software is inadvisable but running
  Windows without any is insane.

• Surge in attachment spam a sign of desperation, say experts

  Botnet criminals have flooded the Internet with a surge of attachment spam in recent weeks in a desperate attempt to rebuild a spam-distribution industry under pressure, security experts have suggested.

• Sniffer hijacks secure traffic from unpatched iPhones

  Almost anyone can snoop the secure data traffic of unpatched iPhones and iPads using a recently-revised tool, a researcher said today as he urged owners to apply Apple's latest iOS fix.