Security firm Trusteer has discovered a new piece of malware that tricks Facebook users into handing over their credit card, debit card, and/or social security numbers.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/malware-tricks-facebook-users-into-exposing-credit-cards/11297

Security firm Sophos has acquired mobile management solutions and mobile device management (MDM) provider Dialogs for an undisclosed sum.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/sophos-acquires-mobile-management-provider-dialogs/11285

The Federal Trade Commission has fined social game developer RockYou $250,000 for storing 32 million e-mail addresses and passwords, including 179,000 belonging to minors, in plain text.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/ftc-fines-rockyou-250000-for-storing-user-data-in-plain-text/11274

Security researchers say they can extract credit card information from Xbox 360s even after they have been restored to factory settings. Microsoft says it is investigating the claims.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/microsoft-investigating-used-xbox-360-credit-card-hack/11260

U.S.-based credit card processor company Global Payments has confirmed that its security breach was confined to North America, and that less than 1.5 million credit cards were stolen.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/up-to-15-million-visa-mastercard-credit-card-numbers-stolen/11249

Security researchers at Drexel University and Dakota State University say they can extract credit card information from Microsoft Xbox 360s even after they have been restored to factory settings.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/hackers-can-steal-credit-card-data-from-used-xbox-360s/11240

Despite popular reports, the hacktivist group Anonymous is not hacking, killing, or taking down the Internet today via DDoS attacks on root DNS servers. The Internet will remain completely functional.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/anonymous-is-not-taking-down-the-internet/11225

Researchers from the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) have spotted an ongoing Facebook phishing attack, spreading across Syrian pro-revolution forums on Facebook.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/facebook-phishing-attack-targets-syrian-activists/11217

According to security researchers from Norman, they have intercepted a copy of the Sogu malware, that’s abusing MSDN, Baidu, LinkedIn and Twitter as C&C servers.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/cybercriminals-use-twitter-linkedin-baidu-msdn-as-command-and-control-infrastructure/11210

The Opera Web browser for Mac OS X has been recently updated to version 11.62, with the latest update patching six security holes.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/opera-for-mac-os-x-patches-6-security-holes/11201