• Apple approves fake iPhone app for App Store

  Apple let a fake app slip through its approval process for the iOS App Store, áccording to the makers of the popular Camera+ program.

• Wikipedia anti-SOPA blackout bypass trick roils backers

  A security company's advice on how to circumvent today's Wikipedia blackout has roiled some users.

• Facebook, researchers turn up heat on Koobface gang

  Security researchers are worried that the alleged Russia-based authors of Koobface, a piece of malicious software that plagued social networking sites such as Facebook, may slip away before law enforcement can catch them.

• 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.

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