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Hackers leak Bank of America Emails
The hacktivist group Anonymous has obtained sensitive emails from a former Balboa Insurance employee. The content of the emails are said to reveal "that the firm intentionally concealed some information regarding foreclosures when U.S. federal auditors took over mortgage loan companies IndyMac and Aurora Loan Services, and that some of the loan documentation handled by the company was actually forged to expedite foreclosures."

Phising Sites Detected by New Anti-phishing Tool
New software has been developed by a Hong Kong City University professor that pieces apart a website into sections that can be analyzed to determine if the website is fraudulent site or not. "So far, the beta version of the software is being distributed freely. Called Reasonable Anti-phishing, it also has an online version called SiteWatcher, where you can enter the suspect URL and check if it's fraudulent."

iPhone and BlackBerry Hacked at Pwn2Own
Dion Blazakis and Chris Miller took home a $15,000 prize at the Pwn2Own contest for hacking an iPhone 4 and stole the address book. Vincenzo Iozzo, Willem Pinckaers and Ralf Philipp Weinmann successfully hacked the Blackberry Torch 9800 and stole images, contact list info and were even able to write a file on the device. They also took home $15,000 prize money for the contest as well as the hacked device which is a custom of the contest.

"Japanese Tsunami RAW Tidal Wave Footage" Facebook Scam
A clickjacking/survey scam is going around on Facebook to take advantage of those interested in seeing the events that occurred in Japan. The scammers provide a video that is supposed to be raw video footage of the Japanese earthquake taken by CNN. When the video is clicked it 'likes' the video unbeknown to the victim spreading the scam to others and then they are asked to complete a survey in order to view the video which generates revenue for the scammers.

0-Day Vulnerability Found in Adobe Flash
Adobe has found a critical vulnerability in it's flash player version 10.10.2.152.33 as well as earlier versions. The vulnerability is said to potentially give an attacker control of the compromised system as well as possible cause a system to crash. Adobe is preparing a fix for the vulnerability and will launch an update upon its completion.

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