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Zango Still Misbehaving, Says Researcher
Spyware researcher Ben Edelman has been following Zango's software installation practices before and since their November 2006 settlement with the FTC, and found the company still doing some questionable practices.
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Date: 2007-07-31

YouTube Plans Video Fingerprinting
Lawsuits from several organizations about copyright infringing videos appearing on YouTube has Google's video service readying a screening solution to stop them from being uploaded.
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Date: 2007-07-30

Personalized Spam May Lead To Infection
Social engineering through data mining allows criminals to make their email come-ons look legitimate, but visiting included links could lead to a system being compromised.
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Date: 2007-07-27

Firefox Fixes FileType Flaw
A serious zero-day flaw in Firefox on Windows XP could allow local programs to be executed after certain URLs launch the wrong handler in the system.
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Date: 2007-07-26

Beware Of Natalie From Facebook
There may have been a real Natalie behind the social engineering scam found by a McAfee researcher, but her Facebook connection is a total fake.
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Date: 2007-07-25

Fox News Gaffe Revealed Personal Data
As many as 1.5 million email addresses may have been revealed to visitors arriving at an unsecured FTP server courtesy of a login left available by an error on the Fox News website.
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Date: 2007-07-24

Fox News Forgets About Directory Security
Most webmasters prefer not to allow visitors to browse their directory structures, but somebody on the Fox News online staff forgot this step.
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Date: 2007-07-23

eBay Scammers Working Hard Against Sellers
Beware of aggressive attempts by Nigerian scam artists who work somewhat sophisticated ploys to separate people from their merchandise without paying.
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Date: 2007-07-20

Phishing Quiz Tests Its Takers
An online quiz hosted at McAfee's SiteAdvisor website challenges people to pick out authentic sites and messages from pairs of real and fake ones.
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Date: 2007-07-19

Oracle Releases Numerous Critical Patches
Products ranging from databases to application serves and the PeopleSoft product line required a vast number of security fixes.
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Date: 2007-07-18

Safari Calls On iPhone Endanger Users
Apple has been working on fixing an issue with the iPhone's native Safari web browser, where dialing a number from a page displayed in Safari could be exploited.
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Date: 2007-07-17

Several Flaws Fixed In Flash, Java
The presence of the Flash Player and the Java Runtime Environment on millions of PCs worldwide makes them a massive target for attackers.
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Date: 2007-07-16

Boeing Employee Busted For Stealing Data
Gerald Eastman claimed his downloading and dissemination of Boeing documents over a couple of years amounted to whistle-blowing, not theft.
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Date: 2007-07-13

AP Easily Grabs Sensitive Military Documents
Associated Press found it could obtain a number of sensitive military documents from file servers simply by connecting to them.
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Date: 2007-07-12

FTC Spam Summit Opens Today
Microsoft and Yahoo will be among the panel participants at the Federal Trade Commission's two-day Spam Summit in Washington DC.
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Date: 2007-07-11

Stock Scammers Spam SEC Lawyer
The penny stock pump-and-dump scheme run by two Texas men used zombie computers to push out their spams.
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Date: 2007-07-10

The Trojan That Talks Trash
A new trojan making the rounds will taunt its victims vocally as it deletes files from a compromised PC.
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Date: 2007-07-09

Three Critical Patches Pending For Microsoft
The advance notification from Microsoft for its next patch release showed six patches, three of them for Critical issues, are on tap for July.
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Date: 2007-07-06

Free iPhone Sites Full Of Spam
You get what you pay for, so the saying goes, and those expecting a free Apple iPhone in exchange for filling out a form are getting plenty of junk email in return.
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Date: 2007-07-05

iPhone Fakery In Circulation
A trojan-driven phishing site offering non-existent iPhones for sale serves only to part the unwary from their cash.
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Date: 2007-07-03

Fake DOJ Messages Hide Trojans
Spam messages claiming to be from the Department of Justice have been hitting inboxes and bringing along a Trojan downloader.
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Date: 2007-07-02

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