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Site Promises Digg Promotion For Cash
Looking at the User/Submitter website, it's hard not to think the site, if it is legitimate, is an inevitable development for those who are desperate for a promotion to the front page of the popular news aggregating site, Digg.com.
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Date: 2006-09-29

Microsoft Buys Boost Email Security
Gartner published its 2006 E-Mail Security Boundary Magic Quadrant and rated Microsoft a leader in the category for its efforts.
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Date: 2006-09-28

Microsoft Sues Mystery Hacker Over DRM
The FairUse4WM utility released by the hacker known as Viodentia has led Microsoft to file a federal lawsuit, which the company will use to try and track down the person behind the DRM-cracking tool.
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Date: 2006-09-27

AOL Search Data Flap Draws Lawsuit
The inevitable legal action against AOL for releasing details on the queries performed by 658,000 of its users began with a suit seeking class action status filed in a California court.
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Date: 2006-09-26

ZERT Patches IE VML Flaw
While Microsoft continues testing a fix, a group of security researchers have responded to the escalating attacks vectoring on the VML vulnerability in Internet Explorer by releasing an unofficial patch for the problem.
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Date: 2006-09-25

Blue Pill Returning In Stealthier Mode
Researcher Joanna Rutkowska made headlines when news of her Blue Pill virtualization rootkit became widely known; now she is working on ways to make it even harder to detect.
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Date: 2006-09-22

Torpark Anonymizes Online Browsing
The Electronic Frontier Foundation's release of Torpark, a modified version of the Firefox browser that surfs the Internet in a secure and portable way.
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Date: 2006-09-21

Gonzales Demanding Data Retention Law
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales cited the proliferation of child pornography as the reason Congress needs to enact legislation requiring Internet service providers to retain customer data.
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Date: 2006-09-20

Google Public Service Fileted By Phish
The Public Service Search site at Google proved susceptible to creation of a page on Google's domain, as one software developer demonstrated.
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Date: 2006-09-19

Lonely Wives Spam Email Users
The Federal Trade Commission put a stop to four spamming operations, including one that sent out messages offering the recipient a chance to "date lonely wives."
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Date: 2006-09-18

No iTunes Movies For Asia
Fears of fueling the rampant movie piracy business in places like China and Hong Kong likely prevents Apple from offering movie downloads in most of Asia.
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Date: 2006-09-15

EarthLink Hammers Spammer For $11M
A federal court in Atlanta sided with Internet services provider EarthLink against KSTM, a Nevada firm accused of massively spamming EarthLink customers.
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Date: 2006-09-14

Governator, Rival Spar Over Audio
The campaign manager for Democrat Phil Anglides, a challenger for California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, admitted the campaign downloaded an audio file from the governor's web site and passed it along to the Los Angeles Times.
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Date: 2006-09-13

EFF Raises A FLAG
The FOIA Litigation for Accountable Government project will use Freedom of Information Act requests to expose the more egregious infringements on privacy by the federal government.
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Date: 2006-09-12

Second Life Cracked In Real Life
All users of the online 3D virtual community Second Life were forced to reset their passwords after someone broke into the company's database of user information.
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Date: 2006-09-11

FTC Spanks Xanga Over Child Privacy
The Xanga online networking site drew a record $1 million fine from the Federal Trade Commission over its account registration practices.
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Date: 2006-09-08

Google Query Reveals Federal Health Surveillance
An off-the-cuff search on Google revealed all kinds of interesting goodies, including a case study showing how routine public health surveillance to determine if a disease outbreak may be taking place.
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Date: 2006-09-07

Spammers Wrecked Talent Firm's Credibility
When spammers adopted the look and feel of an Australian talent agency's online advertisement for their mass mailing, the company behind the ad received the brunt of the criticism afterwards.
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Date: 2006-09-06

Apple Cracker Breaks Silence
It appears that the duo who claimed to be able to break into a MacBook through its wireless connection are being muzzled from discussing an Apple vulnerability.
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Date: 2006-09-05

Smart Is More Important Than Secure
Flaws, exploits, and patches for vulnerabilities all put the topic of computer security in the news regularly, but the typical PC user has more to fear from social engineering than malicious code.
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Date: 2006-09-01

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