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Spam Relays Found In Surprising Places
Major tech companies and corporations with significant IT resources may have something extra on their networks: a spam relay pumping out millions of junk messages.
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Date: 2007-03-30

New Drive-By Exploit Threatens IE
Versions 6 and 7 of Internet Explorer running on fully patched Windows XP SP2 systems are vulnerable to a silent exploit.
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Date: 2007-03-29

America's Spam Shame
About forty-five percent of the spam sent out to infest inboxes worldwide comes from a US-based machine.
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Date: 2007-03-28

I Have Your Password
Your weak password creation skills are no match for the determined miscreant, who can probably finagle his way into your accounts with ease unless you put some effort into making a stronger one.
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Date: 2007-03-27

ActiveX Undermining IE Security
Although ActiveX is part of Microsoft's components beyond the Internet Explorer browser, its place in IE has made it an ongoing concern for users and security companies.
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Date: 2007-03-26

MSN Closes Soapbox Over Infringing Videos
YouTube isn't the only video sharing site receiving uploads containing copyrighted works; Microsoft has had to shutter its Soapbox site to new users.
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Date: 2007-03-23

Online Auction Fraud Tops FBI Complaint List
The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) said in its annual Internet Fraud Crime Report that nearly 45 percent of referred complaints centered on fraudulent auction activity.
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Date: 2007-03-22

Apple Involvement Cited In Smear Campaign
ZDNet blogger George Ou, the technical director for TechRepublic, has published a scathing account of how Apple played puppet master to a whispering campaign against a couple of security researchers who found issues with MacBook wireless drivers.
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Date: 2007-03-21

Life Is Cheap Online
Symantec said in its latest Internet Security Threat Report, for the period of July through December 2006, that the access to essential details about a person's identity could be had for a low price of $14.
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Date: 2007-03-20

Secure Your OS, Courtesy Of The NSA
The National Security Agency has guides available for people who want to make their Windows, Mac OS X, and Solaris installations as secure as those used by government employees.
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Date: 2007-03-19

Disclosure Debate On Security Problems
A post by PHP security expert Chris Shiflett about a flaw in Amazon's 1-Click process that he disclosed to them a year ago does not appear to be fixed; his discussion of the issue brings up the problem of publicly disclosing security problems.
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Date: 2007-03-16

New Flaw Spotted In IE
Internet Explorer suffers from an input validation error that could be exploited by phishing scammers to steal information from users of that browser.
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Date: 2007-03-15

MySpace Faces Age Verification Law
The state of Connecticut has a proposal in play that would require social networking sites and chat room operators to verify ages of their users.
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Date: 2007-03-14

Meet The Carding Crew
Forget about selling drugs, the real money is in information, and according to an Australian security professional, the United States served as a more profitable territory for illicit hacking than illicit drugs.
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Date: 2007-03-13

OneCare Chews Up Outlook Email
Users of Microsoft's antivirus product OneCare have reported on its support forums that it has deleted the email stores in Outlook and Outlook Express on some machines.
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Date: 2007-03-12

SEC Halts Spam Related Stock Trading
The Securities and Exchange Commission suspended trading on 35 companies that have been featured in millions of spam messages.
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Date: 2007-03-09

Identity Theft Jumps By 50 Percent
Over the past three years, around 15 million Americans suffered an identity theft loss, with retail e-commerce breaches, phishing, and online auction scams among the reasons.
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Date: 2007-03-08

From Michaelangelo To Anti-Scam Scamming
It has been 15 years since a virus dubbed Michaelangelo first brought the threat of viruses to the computer-using public. The aims of virus writers have changed since then, but some of the criminals behind illicit computer activities haven't become any smarter.
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Date: 2007-03-07

Apples, Forgeries, Scanners, And Bagles
Eight vulnerabilities in Apple's QuickTime product received fixes to stop potential exploits from crashing the application or running arbitrary code; this and more in a SecurityProNews roundup.
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Date: 2007-03-06

NOAA Cracked By Russian Pill Hackers
A section of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration website has been stuffed with a few dozen pages containing promotions for a muscle relaxant.
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Date: 2007-03-05

WordPress Open To Script Injection
Multiple vulnerabilities in the WordPress blogging platform have been found, leaving it open to potential HTML or JavaScript injection by remote attackers.
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Date: 2007-03-02

Texas A&M Stopped Password Crackers
An attack against servers containing encrypted passwords for some university accounts was detected and stopped by Texas A&M staffers.
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Date: 2007-03-01

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