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Windows Vista SP1 Arrives In Beta
Microsoft's heavily touted, latest version of Windows finally gains a much-needed service pack, but it's still just a little out of reach.
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Date: 2007-08-30

Blogger Users Under Storm Advisory
The Storm worm has been appearing in comments on blogs hosted on Google's Blogger platform.
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Date: 2007-08-29

Sony Has Another Rootkit Issue
It's not Velvet Revolver CDs at risk this time, but USB sticks distributed under Sony's name that show up with hidden software.
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Date: 2007-08-28

iPhone Cracker Swaps Phone For 350Z
George Hotz managed to unlock an iPhone so a T-Mobile SIM card would work in it and connect Apple's mobile phone product to that network.
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Date: 2007-08-27

Mobile DoS Threats Enabled By Flaws
Researchers have found several ways that a persistent attacker can cause problems for users of a wireless phone network.
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Date: 2007-08-24

The Wrap: Fujacks, E-Cards, And Google
Gamers who were infected with the Fujacks worm should be pleased to know four people have been charged with creating and distributing it online.
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Date: 2007-08-23

Monster.com Recruiter Accounts Compromised
Job hunters on Monster who have posted resumes may have had their personal details exposed through phished recruiter accounts, which would permit criminals to browse hundreds of thousands of profiles.
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Date: 2007-08-22

Internet Gunned Down Near Cleveland
Someone shot up a fiber-optic cable and caused significant Internet slowdowns throughout the US on Monday.
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Date: 2007-08-21

Monster.com Visitors Victimized By Malware
Malicious ads appearing on Monster and other job sites have led to Trojans being placed on job seekers' computers, leading to thousands of cases of identity theft.
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Date: 2007-08-20

Storm Gang Offering Fake Microsoft Tool
A component called Microsoft Data Access allows applications to connect to various data sources, but the one being offered by scammers will drop a worm onto a PC.
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Date: 2007-08-17

McAfee Helps Efforts Against Domestic Violence
The security company has been working with the National Network to End Domestic Violence's 'Safety Net' program, and educating law enforcement and others about the role of spyware in these cases.
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Date: 2007-08-16

Microsoft Fixes Another Vista Problem
Nine security bulletins from Microsoft for its 'Patch Tuesday' monthly update included fixes for several critical vulnerabilities in their software. One of the fixes covered a problem in the newest Microsoft operating system, Vista.
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Date: 2007-08-15

More Facebook Code Emerges
A couple of days after publishing the home page source code for Facebook, the bloggers behind Facebook Secrets revealed the source code for search functionality on the social networking site.
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Date: 2007-08-14

Facebook Opened Its Source Code
Anyone with a fascination for seeing a PHP-powered page make calls to a bunch of PHP scripts got an eyeful from social networking site Facebook over the weekend.
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Date: 2007-08-13

New Cybersecurity Laws A "Waste of Time"
Roger Thompson of Exploit Prevention Labs took a few minutes to talk about botnets, foreign security threats, and the likelihood new US laws on computer security will have any effect.
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Date: 2007-08-10

Pearl Jam Hit By AT&T Censorship
A webcast of Pearl Jam's Lollapalooza performance suffered some censorship at the hands of AT&T's content monitor.
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Date: 2007-08-09

Storm Worm Surging Again
Electronic greeting card spam has been the most recent way criminals try to infect people's computers with botnet software.
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Date: 2007-08-08

Mozilla Clarifies Ten Day Claim
Even though it seems like Mozilla cranks out its patches in record time, the truth is it usually takes longer than ten days to test and evaluate patches for products like Mozilla.
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Date: 2007-08-07

Dateline Producer Cracked At Defcon
Defcon 15 enjoyed the attentions of a would-be undercover Dateline producer, whose escapades at the conference ended with her being asked to leave the Las Vegas gathering.
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Date: 2007-08-06

Malware Count Will Reach 300,000
A troublesome milestone rests on the horizon, as McAfee expects to record the 300,000th unique piece of malware very soon.
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Date: 2007-08-03

Lost Cellphones Add Up For Owners
We worry so much about software security, be it applications or operating systems, that it's easy to forget softer targets like cellphones. Losing one can have consequences beyond mere inconvenience.
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Date: 2007-08-02

Google Zaps Malware Spam Blogs
A large number of Blogspot blogs appeared in July, toting malicious JavaScript and sending visitors to some seriously undesirable content and malware.
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Date: 2007-08-01

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