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Gmail Close To Spam Fighting Perfection
Although Google sees about 70 percent of incoming mail to Gmail users as being spam, less than a percent of that junk makes it through their filters to recipients.
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Date: 2007-10-31

Melissa Strips For Captcha Translations
Some enterprising malware creators have created an enticing piece of software to help them break common captcha schemes on Yahoo's sites.
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Date: 2007-10-30

Trailing A Spam Transaction
A security researcher at CA took a trip through a typical spam offer, by making a purchase to see how the pieces of a scam all fit together.
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Date: 2007-10-29

NVidia Chip Helps Vista Password Cracking
Elcomsoft didn't need Blue Gene or a similar supercomputer to speed up their password cracking 25 times faster. They needed a GeForce 8800 Ultra off the shelf.
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Date: 2007-10-26

Teens Online No Big Deal To Parents
People with teenagers may not think the Internet is as good for kids as they thought it was a couple of years ago, but they don't think it's any worse, either.
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Date: 2007-10-25

Anonymity Leaves Usenet Providers
GigaNews and Usenet Server have made changes to their terms of service, quietly removing references that touted the anonymity features for their subscribers.
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Date: 2007-10-24

Anonymous On Craigslist? Maybe Not
One security researcher found his interest in one particular post on Craigslist piqued so much, he decided to try and track down the poster.
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Date: 2007-10-23

Boo! Halloween Spam Arrives
Holidays have always been a favorite time to try and scam people, and the fall party that is Halloween is no exception.
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Date: 2007-10-22

Mozilla Releases Firefox 2.0.0.8
Automatic update screens should be popping up for Firefox users, as a new release of the browser with security fixes and Mac OS X Leopard support arrived online.
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Date: 2007-10-19

Social Networking Means No More Secrets
A social networking profile only contains what its owner adds to it. In this modern Internet age, some people put in way too much information and endanger themselves.
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Date: 2007-10-18

The Absolute Poker Kerfuffle
A losing player at an online tournament at Absolute Poker asked for, and received, a hand history file from the site. The file showed the tournament winner either had the most amazing run of luck in the history of the playing card, or that someone helped the winner see hole cards.
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Date: 2007-10-17

Storm Botnets Using Encrypted Traffic
A 40-byte key used to communicate with specific nodes on a Storm botnet could be a harbinger of an even greater Storm threat.
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Date: 2007-10-16

Stuff The Military-Industrial Complex Should Use
An embarrassing breach of Department of Homeland Security computers from a Chinese site has at least one Congressman fuming, and the rest of us wondering what $1.7 billion buys in security these days.
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Date: 2007-10-15

Word Exploiter: Hi, I'm A Mac
An attack targeted at a newly-patched flaw in Microsoft Word came from a document created on an Apple Macintosh.
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Date: 2007-10-12

International Websites Plagued By Attacks
Government websites in the US and abroad suffered hacks that caused them to point to pharmaceutical and adult content sites.
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Date: 2007-10-11

Critical Fixes Arrive For Outlook Express, Word, IE
Patch Tuesday may as well have arrived with a siren screaming, considering the fixes needed for three of Microsoft's most widely used products.
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Date: 2007-10-10

Election 2008 Faces Cybercrime Risks
The various threats that plague users of technology could be a problem for the people who want to settle in to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with an election win next year.
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Date: 2007-10-09

Hallmark, YouTube Vexed By Spammers
Malicious greeting card payloads and abuse of YouTube's 'invite-a-friend' email feature have posed issues for everyday users and security pros.
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Date: 2007-10-08

Critical Fixes Coming For Office, Windows
Microsoft's regularly scheduled monthly patches arrive on Tuesday with fixes for issues rated Critical in the Windows operating system and the Office productivity suite.
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Date: 2007-10-05

Feds Deleted California's .Gov Domains
What started as an action to correct a hacked website from redirecting traffic to a porn domain ended up with the entire ca.gov domain being deleted.
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Date: 2007-10-04

The Biggest Enemy Of Security Pros
Chinese spies and Russian profiteers may be near the top of the list of what vexes security professionals the most, but user apathy has to be considered too.
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Date: 2007-10-03

Feds Crack Down On Spyware, DDoS Perps
Media Motor has been shutdown by the Federal Trade Commission as part of a settlement, and a 21 year-old male from California was arrested in connection with a DDoS attack on Castlecops.
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Date: 2007-10-02

Gap Has One: 800,000 Identities Stolen
A stolen laptop was at the center of the latest episode of massive identity theft when a contractor working for Gap clothing reported the loss of the device.
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Date: 2007-10-01

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