Seductive Russian chat bot tries to steal your private data
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A chatroom bot called Cyberlover and designed in Russia claims to be able to secure private information from unsuspecting users by seducing them.
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A team of international investigators infiltrated an Internet chat room used by pedophiles who streamed live videos of children being raped, rescuing 31 children and identifying more than 700 suspects worldwide.
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Attackers can trick browsers into releasing password information.
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AOL denies responsibility Someone is surreptitiously adding unauthorized chat buddies to AOL instant messaging clients running across the Web. This afternoon, three separate Register employees have noticed the offending buddies, which show up under the "AIM Bots" portion of the AOL buddy list, carrying the names "Prof Gilzot," "sharethisdotcom," "Spleak," and "WSJ." In one instance, they appeared on a third-party Adium client that ties into AOLâs instant messaging network.â¦
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Next time a stranger sends you an instant message, don't be sure there's a real person behind the exchange. You may be conversing with Chatting AIM Bot, a free service for pranksters that spews out computer-generated conversation. By Daniel Terdiman.
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Internet chatroom romantics beware: your  next chat may be with a clinical computer, not a passionate  person, trying to win your personal data and not your heart, an  online security firm says.
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Semi-organized people just as dangerous as botnets In late April, a Russian-speaking blogger upset with recent events in Estonia posted a series of dispatches calling on like-minded people to attack government servers in that country.â¦
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Blog: Phishing and drive-by downloads are possible if you stumble across an infected profile.
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The sophisticated worm, known as W32.pipeline, is setting up a botnet and propagates when an AIM user clicks on a Web link apparently sent from someone in their buddy list.
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A TROJAN HORSE with a name that takes over a PC so that it sends SMS spam to mobile phones has been spotted in Russia. The Delf-HA Trojan contacts a Web site for details on which spam campaign to run and then
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9 out of 10 messages are junk Trojan programs, particularly those designed to steal online gaming account credentials, have become the mainstay of malware authors.â¦
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Information on individuals has been collected in a scam using e-greetings that appear to come from a secret admirer.
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Hackers got into a database containing the Social Security numbers of
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A newly identified malicious program not only messes up its victims' computers, it taunts them too.
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A cache found online of usernames and passwords for more than 100 government e-mail accounts includes takings from Iranian, Russian, Indian, U.K., and Kazakh victims.
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A computer security researcher figures out exactly how a high-tech scammer
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A new worm can spy on users by hijacking their Web cameras, a security firm warned Monday. The Rbot.gr worm -- the latest in a long line of similar worms; one security firm estimates that more