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Bot Battlers Bruised By Botnets
The scary part of bot infestations running on millions of PCs connected to the Internet comes from the revelation that sometimes the bot herders work cooperatively rather than competitively.
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Date: 2007-01-31

Vermont Victimized By Virus
A bot attack against a state computer in Vermont may have yielded information on 70,000 people to the criminals responsible for the intrusion.
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Date: 2007-01-30

NEC To Seal Out VoIP Spit
NEC Corporation claims to have a new technology called VoIP SEAL that can prevent Spam over Internet Technology (SPIT) through the use of a Turing test to detect spam-generated calls.
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Date: 2007-01-29

MySpace Asked GoDaddy To Drop SecLists
At the request of MySpace, domain registrar GoDaddy removed DNS records for SecLists.org after the security site published a list of 56,000 MySpace usernames and passwords that has been circulating the Internet.
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Date: 2007-01-26

419 Scams Lure In Government Worker
The treasurer for Altona County in Michigan has been arrested for siphoning over a quarter of the county's budget to send to Nigerian scammers.
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Date: 2007-01-25

Storm Trojans Raining On Internet
An outbreak of Trojans has been escalating since December, with security companies observing a lot of activity surrounding them.
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Date: 2007-01-24

No Friends On MySpace For Spam King
Scott Richter gained a notorious footnote in the history of the Internet for his mass email activities, and has now been accused of using MySpace to send millions of spam messages.
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Date: 2007-01-23

Swedish Bank Tapped By Cybercrime
The $1.1 million lost to Russian criminals by a Swedish bank took place over a three-month period, with a keylogging Trojan at the heart of the scheme.
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Date: 2007-01-22

Spammers Target Email Newsletters
Criminals have started to mimic newsletters to carry their product promotion messages, and that imitation includes forging message headers to make it look like the real publisher sent them.
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Date: 2007-01-19

Tokyo Doc Loses Patient Information
A physician with the University of Tokyo Hospital placed personal information about 150 patients on his home computer, only to have that data leaked online.
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Date: 2007-01-18

Image Spam Goes Boom
Spammers switched tactics with millions of junk messages by sending them as images instead of text, and that exploded to account for a huge portion of all spam sent in 2006.
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Date: 2007-01-17

Identity Theft Attacks Up 250 Percent
The threat to home and business computer users rose dramatically between January 2004 and May 2006, with a 250 percent rise in the number of keylogging utilities found on the Internet.
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Date: 2007-01-16

Serenity HD-DVD Cracked And Torrented
Hackers have found a way around the protection used for the next-generation HD-DVD format and enabled the distribution of the Firefly movie, Serenity, over the Internet.
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Date: 2007-01-15

HP Spy Pleas Guilty To Charges
Colorado private investigator Bryan Wagner used pretexting tactics to gain access to personal phone records of members of the Hewlett Packard board as part of tracking down who leaked information to reporters about the company.
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Date: 2007-01-12

Microsoft Patches Lack Word Fixes
A trio of zero-day exploits for Word emerged in December around the time of Microsoft's last patch release. Their most recent updates for January contained four fixes, but none for Word.
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Date: 2007-01-11

Adobe Reader Still Open To Exploits
The continued shift of attacks from operating system components to application software has compelled security researchers to comb popular apps for vulnerabilities. Older versions of Adobe Reader have again been found with a weak spot.
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Date: 2007-01-10

Strange Excel Advisory Appears Online
An advisory about Microsoft Excel rated Highly Critical by Secunia appeared this morning, but the source for the advisory seems to be lacking supporting information.
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Date: 2007-01-09

New Excel Flaw Does Exist
A highly critical problem in Microsoft's much-utilized spreadsheet program Excel will be formally disclosed and patched by Microsoft later today.
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Date: 2007-01-09

Early Vista Bug Not A Reliable Threat
Although the debut of a threat affecting Windows component csrss.exe could impact the new Vista operating system, it does not appear to have a clear chance of doing so in every case.
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Date: 2007-01-08

Scammers Go Phishing With Flash
Since anti-phishing measures can involve analyzing the content of a page to determine if it is a phish or not, some criminals have shifted to Flash to evade their notice.
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Date: 2007-01-05

Adobe Reader Needs An Update
Users of versions 6.x and 7.x of the Adobe Reader browser plug-in should go ahead and upgrade to version 8 to avoid a nasty little sanitization flaw.
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Date: 2007-01-04

Firewall Fright Tops 2006 Hacks
Amid a year of worms, cracks, phishes, and other computer security nastiness, a method of port scanning intranets from the outside topped the list.
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Date: 2007-01-03

Gmail Rings In New Year With XSS
Users of Google's Gmail service should avoid staying logged in to it until a cross-site scripting issue can be completely fixed.
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Date: 2007-01-02

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