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Unbloating Vista Could Be Security Risk
A frustrated Windows Vista user who turns to the vLite application to shrink the OS can pick and choose components to remove, including the Windows Firewall.
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Date: 2008-01-31

Bad Banners Hit Expedia, Rhapsody
Malicious Flash banner ads appearing on the Expedia travel site, and on Rhapsody's music site, deliver unwanted programs to unsuspecting visitors.
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Date: 2008-01-30

Snopes Pushing Popup Zango Adware
Sunbelt Software's Alex Eckelberry has become tired of seeing Fastclick ads popping up on Snopes, pushing an adware-laden product.
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Date: 2008-01-29

Most Phishers Clueless, Say Researchers
The use of pre-made phishing kits by less than detail-oriented phishers gives lie to the belief that phishers tend to be savvy and sophisticated criminals.
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Date: 2008-01-28

Domain Tasting Not Just For Speculators
Criminal spammers using fast-flux and rockphish techniques to hide their machines from investigators also acquire and release thousands of domains in the five-day grace period allowed for domain registrations.
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Date: 2008-01-25

Apple Altered DTrace Tool, Says Leventhal
The debugging tool DTrace has been ported to Apple's architecture, but it has been changed to prevent it from being used against iTunes.
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Date: 2008-01-24

Facebook Shoots Down Gun Ads
The owner of a firearms training center in Nevada had his advertising campaign on Facebook scuttled by the social networking site.
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Date: 2008-01-23

Drive-By Pharming Now A Reality
What had been suggested as a potential threat a year ago, an attack that would alter a victim's DNS settings simply by visiting a malicious web page, surfaced as a recent threat.
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Date: 2008-01-22

Storm Worm Marks One Year
The massive botnet of thousands of machines co-opted by the Storm worm began around this time last year with a huge spam outbreak.
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Date: 2008-01-21

Skype Vulnerability Threatens Video Searchers
Looking for video through Skype could expose a computer to a cross-zone scripting vulnerability that could lead to remote code execution.
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Date: 2008-01-18

Zero Day Excel Threat Vexes Microsoft
Public disclosure of a newly found vulnerability in several versions of the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet program have the software company racing to repair it.
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Date: 2008-01-17

Phishers Griefing World Of Warcraft Players
Criminals seeking valid players logins for MMORPGs have turned their phishing attention to the best-known presence in online gaming.
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Date: 2008-01-16

MySpace Not A Source Of Microsoft Updates
Bogus friend requests on MySpace led people to malware downloads purporting to be a Windows 'Automatic Update'.
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Date: 2008-01-15

TSA Website Slammed Over Security Flaws
A blistering report from the House Oversight Government Reform Committee bashed the Transportation Security Administration over its website's failings.
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Date: 2008-01-14

Barbara Moratek Leads To Malware
Criminals have been packing an assortment of sites with malware and other junk, and are using the name "Barbara Moratek" to get those sites indexed by Google and others.
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Date: 2008-01-11

SQL Injection Hitting Numerous Websites
Web applications have long been targeted when injection flaws could be exploited, with one automated bot stepping up its injection attacks.
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Date: 2008-01-10

Microsoft Patches Critical Vista Vulnerability
The first Patch Tuesday of 2008 for Microsoft led off with only one Critical-rated issue to fix, along with an Important-rated patch for Windows.
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Date: 2008-01-09

Facebook Secret Crush On Sleazy Apps
The Secret Crush/My Admirer app tossed off the Facebook social networking site required people to send it to other users, who would have to install it so the sender could use it.
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Date: 2008-01-08

Products, Scams Made In China
A hot product at a wholesale price may lead shoppers to questionable websites; the unwary could have their greed turned against them.
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Date: 2008-01-07

Storm Botnet Triples In Size
Holiday infections from Christmas to New Years led to the Storm botnet increasing by more than 200 percent.
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Date: 2008-01-04

Beware The Facebook Phish
Compromised accounts on Facebook have enabled criminals to try and entice people into logging in to the site from a fake login page.
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Date: 2008-01-03

Trojan Malware Dials It In
Getting infected by one particular Trojan will lock up the PC and try to extort the victim into calling in a payment to get it unlocked.
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Date: 2008-01-02

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