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New Zealand Rousts Teenaged Botherder
The 18-year-old going by the alias 'Akill' received a visit from cops in New Zealand after the FBI pegged him as the ringleader of an international criminal group.
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Date: 2007-11-30

Free Gift Advertiser Settles With FTC
The Federal Trade Commission won a settlement with Adteractive over its free gift online promotions that actually required people to pay money or participate in other promotions to be eligible.
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Date: 2007-11-29

SANS Cites Users, Apps As Main Threat Targets
Computer users and custom applications created with minimal attention to security emerged as the top two attack targets favored by criminals.
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Date: 2007-11-28

Symantec Predicts Security Trends For 2008
The ongoing Presidential campaigns by candidates for the Oval Office could be misrepresented by online criminals seeking financial gains or information from voters.
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Date: 2007-11-27

New Apple QuickTime Vulnerability Exposed
A zero-day exploit in Apple's QuickTime software now has accompanying proof of concept code that can affect version 7.3 of the player.
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Date: 2007-11-26

United Kingdom Loses Millions Of Identities
An astonishing combination of poor judgment and lack of information control led to a junior functionary being able to lose personal banking details about 25 million Britons.
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Date: 2007-11-21

Firefox 3 Beta 1 Out For Testing
Security updates rate among the numerous tweaks made by the Mozilla Foundation to the next version of Firefox.
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Date: 2007-11-20

China Poses Major Tech Threat To US
Espionage against corporate and government systems in the United States and Europe represents only one portion of the Chinese threat to critical technology infrastructures.
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Date: 2007-11-19

YouTube, GeoCities Used Again By Spammers
Malware attacks using YouTube and GeoCities as fronts for phishing scams have been spotted in the wild.
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Date: 2007-11-16

Apple Plugs Holes In Tiger, Safari
A massive 41 bugs needed attention from Apple engineers to correct them in a round of security fixes for Mac OS X Tiger and the Safari web browser.
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Date: 2007-11-15

Jarring Firefox Exploit Endangers Google Accounts
Through the use of a malicious .jar file, an attacker could grab details of a victim's Google Account, and the flaw enabling this has been known for months.
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Date: 2007-11-14

Government Wants To Redefine Privacy
Forget about anonymity. A highly-placed government intelligence official thinks it's time for Americans to get used to domestic spying.
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Date: 2007-11-13

Botnet Master 'Acid' Busted By Feds
A plea agreement by John Kenneth "acid/acidstorm" Schiefer for his role in cracking 250,000 PCs likely made him the first person indicted for wiretapping by botnet.
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Date: 2007-11-12

Alicia Keys Victimized By MySpace Hack
The injection of a large image background on a page full of rich media content from the Grammy winning musician included a link to a malware server in China.
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Date: 2007-11-09

Whistleblower Lobbies Against Telco Immunity
Mark Klein has been at the epicenter of a class-action lawsuit against AT&T to determine if they illegally wiretapped millions of Americans and shared their findings with the National Security Agency.
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Date: 2007-11-08

Salesforce.com Falls For Phishing Attack
Software as a Service took a credibility hit as news emerged of a successful phish against a Salesforce.com staffer, which resulted in a loss of data to criminal spammers.
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Date: 2007-11-07

Microsoft Vexed By Macrovision Zero-Day
A critical flaw in the secdrv.sys driver affects some versions of Windows, but Macrovision has a fix available.
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Date: 2007-11-06

Spammers Exploiting Advanced Google Search
No one should be feeling lucky with spam that sends them to a purported retail site via the use of advanced search operators in Google.
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Date: 2007-11-05

Firefox Quietly Updates To 2.0.0.9
Several previously fixed items regressed to an unfixed state in Firefox 2.0.0.8, requiring Mozilla to quickly release a new version.
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Date: 2007-11-02

Macs Victimized By Naughty Video Trojan
The Mac platform received unwanted attention from a group of professional malware writers, who crafted a Trojan and placed it on several pornography sites.
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Date: 2007-11-01

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