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Symantec's UAC Worries Challenged
Windows Vista has a security feature called User Account Control that helps inform users about applications attempting to run on their systems; UAC's potential exploitability has been the subject of debate.
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Date: 2007-02-28

Houston Chronicle Clueless On User Privacy
A publicly available area on the Houston Chronicle's website allowed visitors to easily view text and spreadsheet files containing names, addresses, phone numbers, and emails of contest entrants.
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Date: 2007-02-27

Firefox Plugs Gaps With Latest Update
Along with fixing several issues in the Firefox browser, the most recent update from Mozilla included some focused on supporting Windows Vista.
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Date: 2007-02-26

IBM Patches Serious DB2 Flaws
Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM's DB2 Universal Database presented the potential for local exploitation, which could have led to privilege escalation to root.
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Date: 2007-02-23

FTC Charges Consumerinfo.com Over Fees
For the second time in less than two years, Consumerinfo's website has run afoul of the Federal Trade Commission.
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Date: 2007-02-22

Google Seals Desktop XSS Hole
A vulnerability in the Google Desktop product could have exposed files on a machine running it to an external attacker.
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Date: 2007-02-21

Spammers Love MySpace Logins
There have been a number of faked MySpace front pages found scattered around the Internet. As with everything else associated with online criminals, the profit motive is at work here too.
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Date: 2007-02-20

Australian PM Latest Hacker Spam Subject
News of Australian Prime Minister John Howard surviving a heart attack has become the latest enticement to trick people into clicking a malware loaded link and corrupting their machines.
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Date: 2007-02-19

Discovery Upset About Parody Spanking
The Electronic Frontier Foundation sparred with Discovery Communications over the media company's efforts to silence a website that criticized a Discovery marketing campaign.
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Date: 2007-02-16

Aliens, Geeks, And A Stolen Laptop
Do not trifle in the affairs of geeks, let alone pilfer their wives' laptops, for they are subtle and quick to track you down.
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Date: 2007-02-15

Microsoft Backfills Twenty Security Holes
Even though a dozen security bulletins emerged from Microsoft on Patch Tuesday, some of them delivered multiple fixes to Windows systems.
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Date: 2007-02-14

China Busts Notorious Virus Suspects
Several people believed to be creators of the W32/Fujacks worm, known for the panda icon appearing on infected files, have been arrested by Chinese authorities.
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Date: 2007-02-13

PayPal Grinds Out New Security Key
PayPal and eBay users will be able to enhance their online security on those sites by adopting the forthcoming PayPal Security Key.
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Date: 2007-02-12

SPN Roundup: Microsoft, Botnets, and Tor
It's one of those days where several things seem to be happening at once, so we'll do a quick recap of three stories of interest.
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Date: 2007-02-09

Adult Spam Has Been Going Down
Symantec's most recent State of Spam report found a spike in the amount of image spam in January decreased by the end of the month, while another trend indicated adult spam has decreased its penetration.
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Date: 2007-02-08

Hack Attack Smacks Root Servers
Several of the main root servers for the Internet withstood immense saturation coming from unknown attackers who may have been traced to South Korea.
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Date: 2007-02-07

Office Zero-Day Still Plaguing Users
Although the most recent zero-day exploit affects Microsoft Office, Excel has been the most frequently targeted application for attacks against this latest vulnerability.
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Date: 2007-02-06

Small Fine A Dutch Treat For Spammer
For sending out some 9 billion junk emails through the use of zombied computers, the Dutch telecom regulator Opta fined the spammer known as Mr. X the paltry sum of $97,500 for his actions.
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Date: 2007-02-05

Casino Spam Royale
One of the biggest betting days of the year will happen on Sunday when the Super Bowl takes place, and US-owned betting firms have turned to spamming in Europe to get customers to replace American ones prohibited by laws from gambling online.
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Date: 2007-02-02

Storm Worm Dancing Past PC Defenses
Short life times for the Storm worms, and a multitude of variants, have combined to be part of the reason why fighting them has become a difficult effort for security companies.
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Date: 2007-02-01

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