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StarOffice Sees Its First Virus
Researchers at antivirus firm Kaspersky have found a proof-of-concept virus for the StarOffice productivity suite floating in the wild.
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Date: 2006-05-31

Fake Microsoft Email Carries A Trojan
An email circulating on the Internet claims to contain a patch for the WinLogon service in Microsoft Windows, but instead delivers an unwelcome payload.
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Date: 2006-05-30

Symantec Antivirus Vulnerability Revealed
A flaw in Symantec's Antivirus and Client Security products could leave the machines they are protecting subject to exploitation.
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Date: 2006-05-26

MPAA Countersued For Hacking
The Motion Picture Association of America has been sued by Valence Media, parent company of the TorrentSpy search engine, over its employment of a person to steal private information from them.
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Date: 2006-05-25

Gartner Warns Firms Against US Telecoms
The analyst firm Gartner has advised international companies to rethink their options for maintaining data outside the US and how they connect to it.
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Date: 2006-05-24

Info For 26.5 Million Veterans Stolen
An employee of the federal Department of Veterans Affairs took home data containing Social Security numbers and other personal information about 26.5 million, and that data was subsequently stolen during a burglary.
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Date: 2006-05-23

Symantec Finds Microsoft Word Trojan
The security company advised users of Microsoft Word 2003 that a zero-day exploit has been detected in the wild, and it targets a vulnerability in that program.
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Date: 2006-05-22

Microsoft Makes Whale Of A Buy
The company will enhance the secure access solution it offers by acquiring Whale Communications and its line of remote access security products.
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Date: 2006-05-19

EFF Can Use AT&T Docs In Case
US District Judge Vaughn Walker allowed the Electronic Frontier Foundation to use whistleblower Mark Klein's documents in its class action lawsuit against AT&T over domestic surveillance.
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Date: 2006-05-18

Blue Frog Killed By Spammers
The Israeli-based Blue Security firm had taken on spammers with its Blue Frog software, but the continued online attacks by those spammers has forced the company to shut down.
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Date: 2006-05-17

Oh No Ofoto Busted For Spamming
Kodak Image Gallery, formerly called Ofoto, sent out a lot of emails without the federally required opt-out information included.
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Date: 2006-05-16

DoJ Files To Dismiss AT&T Spying Suit
The Department of Justice waited until the wee hours of early morning on May 13th to file a motion to dismiss a suit brought against AT&T over its monitoring of communications.
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Date: 2006-05-15

Congress May Finally Limit SSN Sales
The online trading of Social Security numbers has led in some cases to identity theft, and both houses on Capitol Hill have bills in the works to stop those SSN sales.
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Date: 2006-05-12

Stolen Identities Found On Server
A malicious program called Trojan-Phisher-Rebery has been stealing personal information and placing it onto a remote server where it would likely be sold to other criminals.
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Date: 2006-05-11

SiteAdvisor Warns Users About E-Cards
Nothing beats the feeling of assuaged guilt quite like a $5.89 greeting card purchased and sent to Mom for Mother's Day, and for those who want to take a shortcut and send her an e-card instead, beware of what you choose for that service.
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Date: 2006-05-10

Spam Botmaster Going To Jail
A federal judge in Los Angeles sentenced Jeanson James Ancheta of the "Botmaster Underground" to 57 months in prison for his malicious computer hacking.
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Date: 2006-05-09

Hospital Hacker Pleads Guilty To Bot Attack
Christopher Maxwell will have to pay more than $252,000 in restitution to a hospital and the Department of Defense for his role in attacking thousands of computers with a botnet that installed adware on target machines.
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Date: 2006-05-08

Politician Sues Google Over Child Porn Ads
Jeffrey Toback, a member of the Nassau County Legislature on Long Island, filed a 16-page complaint against Google in New York State Supreme Court.
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Date: 2006-05-05

TypePad Hit By DDoS Aimed At Blue Frog
When Blue Frog's creator Blue Security redirected traffic from its URL to the blog it maintains on the TypePad service, the distributed denial of service attack aimed at BlueSecurity then affected TypePad.
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Date: 2006-05-04

Blue Frog Spam War Escalates
A Russian spammer claimed he possesses the email addresses of everyone using Blue Security's anti-spam Blue Frog software and threatened to spam members of that list continually unless they leave Blue Security.
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Date: 2006-05-03

Mac Security Reputation 'is in Tatters'
The SANS Institute released its spring update of the top 20 Internet security vulnerabilities, and the increased adoption of Mac OS X and the Firefox browser have made them more tempting to malicious hackers.
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Date: 2006-05-02

Government Intervenes In AT&T Case
The federal government wants the case brought against AT&T by the Electronic Frontier Foundation dismissed on the grounds of military and state secrets privilege.
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Date: 2006-05-01

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