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Microsoft Bids For Software Convictions
A flurry of fifty-five criminal and civil lawsuits against sellers of counterfeit software hit targets in the United States and ten other countries as Microsoft tries to crack down on the threat to its main revenue business.
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Date: 2006-10-31

NWA Pass Creator Boarded By FBI
Indiana University PhD student Chris Soghoian had an eventful week following the debut of his online Northwest Airlines boarding pass creator, but pointing out a flaw in the Transportation Security Administration's security process brought him some unwanted attention.
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Date: 2006-10-30

Prison Time For Elite Torrent Tracker
Grant Stanley picked up a five-month prison sentence for his role in creating EliteTorrents, a BitTorrent tracker site that had been one of the most heavily used in the world.
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Date: 2006-10-27

Identity Theft Leads To Stock Fraud
Criminals outside the United States finessed their way into accounts held by customers of E*Trade and Ameritrade to engage in some profitable pump and dump stock fraud.
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Date: 2006-10-26

Microsoft Finds Need For Trust Ecosystem
A Microsoft executive speaking at the RSA Conference Europe 2006 called for the computer security industry to help build a "trust ecosystem" for computing environments.
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Date: 2006-10-25

SpamThru Trojan Includes AV Software
The sophistication of malware showed a dramatic increase with the assessment of the SpamThru Trojan, which brings along a copy of Kaspersky AntiVirus for WinGate to scan for and delete rival malware on a victim's system.
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Date: 2006-10-24

Microsoft Wrestling With Regulators, McAfee
The Gartner research firm believes Microsoft will need years to make updates to the Vista operating system to satisfy antitrust regulators in Europe and Korea; Microsoft also responded to harsh criticism from McAfee.
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Date: 2006-10-23

Microsoft Battles IE7 Reports, McAfee Complaints
The launch of Internet Explorer 7 soon saw a followup advisory that a vulnerability had been found in the browser, which Microsoft disputed. That was promptly followed by some heated rhetoric from security firm McAfee over Vista security.
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Date: 2006-10-20

Fake Journalist Phish Delivered Keyloggers
Social engineering proved effective at enticing bank employees to click a link in an email that pulled a keylogger onto 60 machines.
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Date: 2006-10-19

Windows Bitten By Apple iPod Virus
A small number of Apple's 5th generation video iPods arrived in the eager hands of Windows users with an irritating pest on board - a virus.
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Date: 2006-10-18

Ask Toolbars Hit With Spyware Claim
Spyware researcher Ben Edelman has documented several issues with toolbars distributed by IAC Search and Media's FunWebProducts that lead him to criticize how those toolbars function.
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Date: 2006-10-17

Beware Of PC Buyers Bearing Fraps
A nice little scam making the rounds victimizes sellers of computer hardware as the scamster asks for benchmarks of the system for sale, provides a link to Fraps for the vicitm to use, and delivers a keylogger with it.
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Date: 2006-10-16

Time Warner Grumbling Over YouTube
The billion-dollar deal Time Warner wrangled from Google for AOL in December 2005 looks like a distant memory, as CEO Dick Parsons wants Google's latest acquisition YouTube to pay up for copyright infringement.
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Date: 2006-10-13

British PCs Under Attack From The US
Computers in the US have been the staging point for a dramatic increase in criminal attacks against PCs in Britain.
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Date: 2006-10-12

Microsoft Patches Nailed Critical Flaws
The company distributed ten security bulletins on Patch Tuesday, with several Critical bulletins correcting multiple problems in Windows and Office applications.
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Date: 2006-10-11

Spybot And Symantec In Spyware Spat
Safer Networking, the maker of Spybot-S&D, has been battling with Symantec for a year and a half over Symantec's Norton products, leading to an ultimatum calling for Symantec to leave the Anti-Spyware Coalition, or Safer Networking will depart.
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Date: 2006-10-10

Google Blog Has A Rough Weekend
A strangely worded post that appeared on Google's official blog over the weekend proved to be a hack, and the company took it down a few hours later.
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Date: 2006-10-09

Microsoft Fighting 11 Flaws On Tuesday
Every system and network administrator's favorite time of the month, the unofficially-celebrated Patch Tuesday, arrives next week with eleven patches ready to battle a host of vulnerabilities.
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Date: 2006-10-06

Professor Studies Why Phishing Works
Those who have spent a long time working with and learning about technology have found it hard to determine why non-techies seem more vulnerable to phishing attacks.
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Date: 2006-10-05

Botnet Tactics Enable Click Fraud
An instant messaging botnet attack that plagued users of Yahoo's Messenger client has been revamped into a more sophisticated approach that could lure people into clicking lucrative ads for the attacker's benefit.
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Date: 2006-10-04

Firefox Javascript Vulnerability Was A Joke
Instead of a dramatically vulnerable JavaScript engine in the Firefox browser, the speakers at ToorCon were presenting code that one admitted will not enable remote code execution.
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Date: 2006-10-03

Firefox Accused Of JavaScript Mess
A "complete mess" in the implementation of JavaScript in the Firefox browser leaves its users vulnerable to an assortment of stack overflow attacks, according to accusations made at the ToorCon hacker and security conference in San Diego.
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Date: 2006-10-02

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