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Rootkits Pose Big 2007 Threat
Escalating efforts to increase the capabilities of rootkits could lead to them becoming a greater presence on the computer security landscape.
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Date: 2006-12-28

Criminals Loved Password Stealers In 2006
A lot of the spam that crawled into inboxes all over the world arrived with one mission - trick the person into dropping a password stealing program onto the system.
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Date: 2006-12-27

Vista Open To Proof Of Concept Attack
The public release of code that can escalate the privileges of a user with authenticated access to a Vista system has Microsoft tracking down a fix.
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Date: 2006-12-22

Microsoft's Long Year Of Zero-Days
From May through December 2006, Microsoft endured the emergence of ten zero-day exploits affecting their products.
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Date: 2006-12-21

Allchin Disputes Sophos Vista Claims
After the Sophos security firm claimed three of the top ten pieces of malware in the wild in November 2006 could affect the new Vista operating system, Microsoft executive Jim Allchin had his engineers investigate the claim.
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Date: 2006-12-20

Spam Problem Begs For Global Response
The ongoing criminal abuse of email by spammers who pump out billions of messages are reaching the point where technology solutions may not be the ultimate weapon against spam.
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Date: 2006-12-19

Big Yellow Big Problem For Symantec
A worm discovered by security firm eEye exploits a vulnerability in Symantec's software that unwary administrators may have left unpatched.
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Date: 2006-12-18

UBS Logic Bomber Sentenced To Jail
Roger Duronio picked up an eight-year and one month prison term in New Jersey for trashing the computers at UBS PaineWebber with a logic bomb in 2002.
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Date: 2006-12-15

VirtualATM To Key Secure Online Banking
The Authentium security firm has a product nearing launch that could eliminate keyloggers and man in the middle attacks from plaguing users of online financial services.
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Date: 2006-12-14

Microsoft Slips In A Seventh Patch
The company had announced six security bulletins would be released with its monthly patch cycle, but a seventh addressing a flaw in Windows Media Player entered the group at the last minute.
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Date: 2006-12-13

UCLA Suffers Massive Security Breach
While it's not on the level of the CardSystems crack of 2005, attackers did manage to access UCLA's systems, putting some 800,000 people at risk.
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Date: 2006-12-12

Microsoft Tagged With Second Word Flaw
Yet another zero-day vulnerability affecting Microsoft Word became known only five days after Microsoft acknowledged limited attacks were targeting the previously disclosed flaw.
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Date: 2006-12-11

Patch Tuesday May Not Close Word Flaw
The zero-day exploit being actively attacked in Microsoft Word on the Windows and Mac platforms probably hit too late in Microsoft's cycle to be addressed with its monthly patch releases.
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Date: 2006-12-08

F-Secure Dings Registrars Over Fake Domains
Dropping a well-known and trademarked name like "eBay" into a domain name registration should cause registrars to give them a glance and make sure they aren't being purchased by someone who is not entitled to use the term.
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Date: 2006-12-07

Zero-Day Exploit Corrupts Microsoft Word
Uses of Microsoft Office and Microsoft Works have been cautioned that a proof-of-concept exploit affecting the suites' word processing program has been observed in the wild.
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Date: 2006-12-06

Microsoft RSS Blog Burned By Image Prank
When the RSS team posted an image taken by a former employee to their blog, they did so without asking the photographer for permission, and he responded by swapping the image with a pornographic one.
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Date: 2006-12-05

Vista To Force Shift In Attacks
Much of the current popular malware that can infest Windows PCs will have a harder time doing so in Vista, and that will have attackers changing the way they attempt to compromise Vista systems.
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Date: 2006-12-04

Vista Open To Current Trio Of Threats
Out of the Sophos list of the top ten malware threats the company has observed globally, three of them can evade the default security of the new Microsoft Vista operating system.
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Date: 2006-12-01

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