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Critical vulnerability could allow an attacker to take control of a computer, company says, and no patch is available yet.

Despite longtime diagnoses that antivirus software is doomed, security will become a service for mobile devices, experts predict.

Along with the security fixes, Firefox 3.6.9 gets a new feature to help Web developers reduce clickjacking risks. Also: Chrome 6 gets bug fixes.

The tool for removing aggressive malware is part of Symantec’s 2011 refresh to its Norton consumer security suites.

Survey finds China, Brazil, India, and the U.S. at top of list of countries with the most cybercrime victims.

Trend Micro revamps its consumer-protection suites by wagering heavily on cloud-based protection, creating security suites that the company claims are faster at detection and lighter on system resources.

Philadelphia appeals court rules that no search warrant is needed for police to track Americans’ cell phone whereabouts but says individual judges can “sparingly” require one.

Social-networking site plugs a second hole that allowed spammers to automatically post to people’s pages.

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The new iTunes-based social network is getting hit by comment spam since Apple apparently left it vulnerable through a lack of spam- or URL- filtering, according to Sophos.