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Tuesday was quite a day for IT administrators—for the month of April, both Microsoft and Adobe released patch loads repairing a slew of critical flaws that could easily pave the way for users to become victims of malicious attacks. For its April Patch Tuesday security bulletin, Microsoft released six updates repairing a total of 11 [...]

Security took a few unexpected twists and turns for the first week of April. For one, Mac owners received a bit of a jolt when a rapidly spreading botnet ran rampant on their machines. Meanwhile, Anonymous is expanding its reach to the world’s most populous nation and the public white board Pastebin appears to be [...]

Pastebin.com, the notorious bulletin board site that has served as the premier dumping ground for Anonymous, Lulzsec and other groups, is planning to be a bit more judicious about what it lets pass through its gates, according to the BBC. The public white board was purchased by Jeroen Vader, a 28-year-old Dutch entrepreneur, who bought [...]

As of late, Apple has been looking a little more like Windows. Or at least,  feeling the pain known all too well by its Redmond-based counterpart. In recent days, the seemingly impenetrable Mac OS X platform was pummeled by not one, but two information-stealing attacks typically reserved for Windows. One of those in-the-wild attacks was [...]

Once upon a time in 2009 the City of Bozeman, Montana found itself at the brunt of a public firestorm when it became known that members had the audacity to request social networking credentials from applicants. Oh, those were the good ole’ days. The issue once again came to the forefront of public attention in [...]