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DoJ Indicts E-Gold On Money Laundering
A digital currency company that has been known to be favored by criminals in their illicit online activities found itself on the receiving end of federal indictments.
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Date: 2007-04-30

Spammers Hit With Billion Dollar Lawsuit
Unspam Technologies' Project Honey Pot filed a federal lawsuit against spammers as part of their efforts to root out email and comment spam.
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Date: 2007-04-27

Google Ads Led To PC Infections
Paid search ads appearing in Google's search result pages held a trap for people who clicked on them when searching for certain keywords.
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Date: 2007-04-26

US Dominates Top 20 DNS Servers
Sixteen of the twenty largest DNS servers reside in the United States, and they account for 32 percent of the .com, .net, .org, .biz and .info top-level domains.
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Date: 2007-04-25

Military Banks Targeted By Phishers
Overseas deployments force military personnel to use online banking, and criminals have tried to take advantage of that by hitting them with phishing attacks aimed at the institutions they use.
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Date: 2007-04-24

Bored Searcher Finds Federal Privacy Breach
A farmer who queried Google about her family's farm discovered a website operated by the USDA and the Census Bureau displaying 63,000 Social Security numbers.
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Date: 2007-04-23

Trojans Arriving as Virginia Tech News
Online scammers continue to prove that they'll race anyone to the moral bottom as some have started sending out Trojans by email under the banner of news about the Virginia Tech shootings.
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Date: 2007-04-20

PowerPoint More Attractive To Virus Writers
Microsoft Word had been the target of choice for attackers, but more active patching of Word issues by Microsoft has pushed malefactors to target PowerPoint.
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Date: 2007-04-19

Ohio State Cracked For Personal Data
Two separate incidents of identity theft have affected 14,000 former and current Ohio State staffers and faculty, and 3,500 chemistry students, the University has revealed.
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Date: 2007-04-18

Skype Hears A New Worm
Another exploit affecting Skype users has been circulating through that network, using Skype's API to send messages with malicious links.
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Date: 2007-04-17

Time For Domains To Get .Safe
Security firm F-Secure thinks the ICANN board needs to consider a new top level domain (TLD) for banks and financial institutions to help cut down on fraud.
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Date: 2007-04-16

Microsoft Hunting For DNS Fix
A remote procedure call (RPC) problem with the DNS Server in Windows 2000 and 2003 could permit remote code execution.
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Date: 2007-04-13

FTC Wants Greater Spyware Crackdowns
The Federal Trade Commission told Congress that fighting data security violators, telephone pretexters, and spyware distributors would be easier with legislation to back up the FTC's work.
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Date: 2007-04-12

Zero Day Exploits Emerge For Microsoft
The pattern of releasing exploits right around the time Microsoft patches its products on a monthly basis has emerged again with the sighting of more attacks against newly found flaws.
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Date: 2007-04-11

ICQ, AIM Flaw Poses File Transfer Trouble
People who use AIM or ICQ for instant messaging are vulnerable to a file transfer path traversal vulnerability that could be remotely exploited.
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Date: 2007-04-10

Easter Trojans Email Fake War News
The latest effort at fooling people into installing malware on their systems comes in the form of email claiming a war in the Middle East has erupted with Iran and Israel taking part.
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Date: 2007-04-09

More Criticals Coming For Microsoft
The regular Patch Tuesday updates from Microsoft will take place next week, just after their out of band fix for the animated cursor problem and six other patches arrived on Windows systems.
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Date: 2007-04-06

Why The ANI Fix Took Three Months
Microsoft's patch update process requires a lot of testing, but the urgency of the animated cursor flaw problem, where numerous websites are hosting attacks against it, led them to cut some corners.
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Date: 2007-04-05

Microsoft Fixes Animated Cursor Flaw
The out of band advisory issued by Microsoft corrected the critical animated cursor problem that had been seeing exploits in the wild.
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Date: 2007-04-04

Jikto Hits The Web
The source code for the JavaScript web scanner Jikto has made it into the wild, making it easier for attackers to silently turn PCs into scanners for sites vulnerable to cross-site scripting exploits.
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Date: 2007-04-03

Microsoft Plans To Fix ANI Flaw Early
An escalation of attacks against Internet Explorer through a vulnerability in the handling of animated cursor files will receive a patch ahead of Microsoft's customary patch date.
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Date: 2007-04-02

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