• Scammers rain on winter holiday plans: ACCC

  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has warned travellers to watch out for holiday scams including fake rental listings, holiday vouchers and travel website hacks.

• Hackers increasingly target shared Web hosting servers for use in mass phishing attacks

  Cybercriminals increasingly hack into shared Web hosting servers in order to use the domains hosted on them in large phishing campaigns, according to a report from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG).

• Recently patched Java flaw already targeted in mass attacks, researchers say

  A recently patched Java remote code execution vulnerability is already being exploited by cybercriminals in mass attacks to infect computers with scareware, security researchers warn.

• Ransomware leverages victims' browser histories for increased credibility

  The authors of police-themed ransomware have started using the browsing histories from infected computers in order to make their scams more believable, according to an independent malware researcher.

• Romanian citizen sentenced to five years in phishing scheme

  A 28-year-old Romanian man was sentenced on Tuesday to five years in prison for his role in a phishing scheme, as part of a seven-year investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice.

• Opinion: The Petraeus scandal and computer ethics

  Last week Gen. David Petraeus, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, resigned in response to what has turned out to be a much bigger scandal than it first appeared.

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