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McAfee Reveals Top Ten Threats For 2007
Mobile devices and videos will be potential targets along with PCs for various attacks, as bots and parasitic malware threaten to deliver a tremendous downside to our increasingly technology-oriented lifestyles.
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Date: 2006-11-30

Bot Attacks Old Symantec Flaw
An issue with Symantec Client Security and its Antivirus Corporate Edition had to be fixed after a bot program began exploiting it at universities.
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Date: 2006-11-29

Security Concerns Crimping Online Shopping
As well as websites did at the start of the holiday shopping season, there is a concern that the numerous incidents of security breaches that have made news over the past year may keep some otherwise energetic shoppers and their wallets offline.
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Date: 2006-11-28

CIA Quizzes Would-Be James Bonds Online
The tradecraft of decades ago, where spy recruiters would go forth to make surreptitious contacts with potential agents, has a complementary modern tool online to gain interest from the CIA's desired audience.
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Date: 2006-11-27

Mac OS X Receives Unwanted Attention
A zero-day exploit that takes advantage of the way Mac OS X handles disk image (.dmg) files provided an exclamation point to the growing belief that security researchers are spending more time on the platform.
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Date: 2006-11-22

Patch Tuesday Is Exploit Tuesday Too
Security researchers have been reporting newly found vulnerabilities on the same day Microsoft releases its monthly slate of patches, in an apparent effort to gain more notice.
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Date: 2006-11-21

Zango Defies FTC Settlement Terms
The $3 million fine and other restrictions meted out by the Federal Trade Commission to Zango for their adware installation practices does not appear to have had the desired effect.
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Date: 2006-11-20

IT Boss Busted For Computer Access
A former IT executive for a publishing company was arrested and charged with a single count of unauthorized computer access for tracking emails making the rounds of his old employer and informing his old co-workers when they were about to be fired.
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Date: 2006-11-17

SANS Updates Its Attack Target List
The Top 20 list published by the SANS Institute received a name change as its annual update of the top 20 Internet security attack targets hit the Web.
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Date: 2006-11-16

Mozilla Claims Phishing Win Over IE
The Mozilla development team tested Firefox 2 against Internet Explorer 7 to see which browser fared better at flagging phishing sites.
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Date: 2006-11-15

Sites Want To Hook And Gut Phishers
A trio of websites offer people the opportunity to report the phish emails they receive in order to thwart the various scams and their perpetrators.
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Date: 2006-11-14

200 Spammers Create 80 Percent Of Spam
Email users in North America and Europe who find themselves plagued with the incessant bombardment of spam can blame 200 spammers singled out by junk mail fighter Spamhaus for the unwanted messages.
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Date: 2006-11-13

XML Fix Ready For Patch Tuesday
Microsoft's monthly patch release date will see the company provide a fix for a zero-day exploit affecting a Critical issue with its XML Core Services, along with repairs for other problems.
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Date: 2006-11-10

Vista Arriving With New Security Features
Microsoft's volume licensing customers will get their hands on the latest operating system from the company first, as Vista entered the manufacturing process.
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Date: 2006-11-09

US Slithers Atop Spam Producing Heap
The United States again took the dubious honor of being the worst spam relaying country in the world, with over 300 versions of the Stratio worm emerging in the third quarter helping things along.
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Date: 2006-11-08

Microsoft XML Exploit Running Wild
A zero-day exploit affecting Microsoft XML Core Services has been circulating online, and poses a remote code execution threat to Windows XP, 2003, and 2000 operating systems.
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Date: 2006-11-07

Wikipedia Targeted By Malware Distributors
The issue of trusting material on user-contributed websites took a turn on Wikipedia, with malicious links being placed on the well-known site.
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Date: 2006-11-06

FTC Asked To Investigate Online Ads
A pair of advocacy groups have filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission over the various practices of online advertising companies, including Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft.
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Date: 2006-11-03

IE6 Not Forgotten By Attackers
Internet Explorer 7 has been available for a few days, but with millions of installations of IE6 in the world there are plenty of PCs that have not opted for the latest release from Microsoft.
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Date: 2006-11-02

Google, YouTube Motivated By Landmark
Motivational and self-help workshop group Landmark Education has hit Google, YouTube, and the Internet Archive with subpoenas to find out who uploaded a video that presented a critical look at Landmark's methods.
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Date: 2006-11-01

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