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• VMware source code stolen, impact unclear

  VMware ESX source code has been stolen and posted online, but the company says its virtualization platform doesn't necessarily pose an increased risk to customers.

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  Monday Grok: 600,000 Facebook accounts compromised

  600,000 Facebook accounts were "compromised" yesterday, or thereabouts.

• Microsoft offers big anti-hacking prize

  Microsoft has kicked off a contest aimed at turning the tables on hackers by offering big money prizes for innovative tactics to foil cyber attacks.

• Personal data of Massachusetts' unemployed stolen

  As if being unemployed isn't bad enough, 210,000 unemployed residents of Massachusetts may have had personal data about them stolen from the state agency that is supposed to be helping them out.

• Lush takes down hacked website

  Lush customers who have made online purchases may have to cancel their credit cards after the popular handmade cosmetics business was targeted by hackers.

• Victorian councils, libraries taught security in hack

  A hacker has busted the security of eight Victorian Government websites in a string of minor attacks on Sunday.

• Apache project server hacked, passwords compromised

  Hackers broke into a server used by the Apache Software Foundation to keep track of software bugs.

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  Twitter application Grader.com hacked

  A popular Twitter application used to measure the influence of Twitter users has been hacked and used to send spam messages.

• TOR issues updated software after server breach

  The TOR Project is advising users to upgrade to a new version of the software following a hack that compromised three of its servers.

• Security researcher IDs China link in Google hack

  The malicious software used to steal information from companies such as Google contains code that links it to China, a security researcher said Tuesday

• Ballmer: Microsoft will stay in China

  Microsoft does not plan to follow Google’s lead in pulling out of China, the software giant’s CEO told news outlets on Thursday.

• China emphasizes laws as Google defies censorship

  China said Thursday that foreign Internet companies are welcome to operate in the country in accordance with local laws, after Google defied authorities by saying it will end censorship on its Chinese search engine.

• Hackers used rigged PDFs to hit Google -- and Adobe, says researcher

  Adobe today confirmed that the cyberattack that hit its corporate network earlier this month was connected to the large-scale attacks Google cited yesterday as one reason it might abandon China.

• McAfee peddles wares to millions in Facebook deal

  McAfee has beat off rivals in a deal with Facebook which will allow it to promote its security suite to the website’s 350 million users and make it mandatory for victims of compromised accounts to use its online scanning tool.

• Group behind Twitter hack takes down Baidu.com

  The group that took down Twitter.com last month has apparently claimed another victim: China's largest search engine Baidu.com.