A hacker in The Netherlands broke into some jailbroken iPhones and sent text messages to the owners asking them to pay to find out how to secure their phones, according to postings in a Dutch forum called Tweakers.net.

This is a screen shot of the SMS the hacked iPhone

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Malwarebytes is accusing China-based computer security firm IObit of intellectual property theft, but IObit denied the allegations and said there were problems with its malware submission site.

Malwarebytes claims IObit stole from its database of malware samples that its software uses to detect malware on customer computers.

Malwarebytes discovered that …

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The security industry consolidation continues.

Web and e-mail security provider M86 Security was set to announce on Tuesday the acquisition of Finjan.

Finjan brings to the table a secure Web gateway product and software-as-a-service solutions, M86 said in a statement. Under the merger, which is effective immediately, Finjan will maintain

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Originally posted at InSecurity Complex

Twitter and Facebook users were getting hit with scams on Monday.

Twitter users warned about direct messages that said, “I make money online with google. i learned how here [link],” according to Twitter users.

A Twitter representative said it was not a phishing scam because the site to which the …

Originally posted at InSecurity Complex