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Customers trying to claim deposits from a collapsed Icelandic bank could be at a higher risk over the next few weeks of falling victim to phishing scams.

Hackers are using the results of the U.S. presidential election to launch a major malware campaign that aims to trick users into installing a Flash update that actually plants a Trojan on unprotected PCs.

An unidentified 'foreign entity' stole a large number of policy-related files from computer systems used by the Obama and McCain campaigns, according to a Newsweek story.

Hackers have found a way to circumvent controls in the Google Android operating system used on T-Mobile's G1 mobile phone, allowing them to get around restrictions created by the phone's designers.