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The AOL Mail data security breach could yield enough valuable information to craft convincing phishing campaigns, according to security experts, who said the security incident is the latest in wide-scale targeting of web-based email accounts conducted by financially motivated cybercriminals.

A group of five hackers claims they worked for two weeks to find an exploit in the new patched version of OpenSSL, which the Heartbleed bug affected.

The Apache Software Foundation rushed last week to update the popular Apache Struts framework after a previous security patch for a high-risk vulnerability proved to be incomplete.

Hackers broke into the Twitter account of the Associated Press news service this week, posting a fake message that triggered a stock-market reaction that saw $200 billion briefly erased from United States markets.