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Arsenal Fan Site Smacked With Malware
The Online Gooner website picked up a nasty malware injection, filled with an assortment of malicious treats for vulnerable visitors.
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Date: 2008-02-29

Criminals Stepping Up Healthcare Attacks
People working in the healthcare industry need to be as aware of digital threats as anyone else. Patient data has real value to identity thieves.
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Date: 2008-02-28

Phishers Love Online Gambling
Countries with favorable laws permitting the hosting of online gambling sites also draw the attention of criminals looking for places to host phishing sites.
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Date: 2008-02-27

New Worm Same As The Old Worm
We have all heard of security by obscurity, but some malware creators are opting for attacking from obscurity.
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Date: 2008-02-26

Pakistan Caused Global YouTube Problems
An outage lasting about two hours took YouTube off the Internet due to an attempt by the Pakistani government to block the site.
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Date: 2008-02-25

EFF Challenges Adobe On Flash DRM
Digital rights management technology being applied to Flash will limit what can be done with streamed Flash content. The EFF questioned the practice, but we think it's here to stay.
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Date: 2008-02-21

Odd Canadian Interest In Money Laundering
Online enticements to engage in money laundering appear to have a following among Canadians, thanks to certain laws in the country.
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Date: 2008-02-20

Japan Nails Massive Spammer
Yuki Shiina reputedly sent more than 2 billion junk messages promoting gambling and dating websites.
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Date: 2008-02-19

Warcraft Scammers Phishing For Gold
Criminals continue to plague World of Warcraft players with attempts to phish their login details and other information, and steal their gold and loot.
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Date: 2008-02-18

Trojan Poses As Hillary Clinton
A purported link to a Hillary Clinton interview video leads to a malicious download, through a Google redirection link.
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Date: 2008-02-15

Happy Spamentine's Day
Spam messages with a Valentine's theme reach out for the lovestruck and the lovelorn, in some cases with targeted messages.
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Date: 2008-02-14

Firefox 3 Beta 3 Released
The next version of the Firefox web browser moved a step closer to full release with the formal debut of the latest beta.
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Date: 2008-02-13

Russia Acknowledged As Spam Superpower
The United States may send out the most spam due to botnetted computers, but Russia has gained second place.
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Date: 2008-02-12

Industry Group Defining Malware Testing
To fight the enemy, one has to know the enemy, and the security vendors backing the recently formed Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization (AMTSO) wish to do that.
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Date: 2008-02-11

Critical Microsoft Office Patches On Tap
February's Patch Tuesday will have a dozen security bulletins hitting installs around the globe. Seven of the twelve received a Critical rating.
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Date: 2008-02-08

Tech, Media, Telco Companies Stink At Security
Woeful preparedness for security breaches and a reactive mindset prevail among industries that collectively should really know better.
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Date: 2008-02-07

Swedish Viagra Sellers Boned By Cops
Authorities in Sweden cracked down on seven men for operating an illegal online pharmacy that sold drugs to 65 countries.
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Date: 2008-02-06

Facebook May Suffer Image Uploader Flaw
An unpatched vulnerability in an Active X library for an image uploading tool used by the social networking site has exploit code in the wild.
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Date: 2008-02-05

TSA Blogs The Unfriendly Skies
Anyone who has to fly probably has a beef with the Transportation Security Administration and its seemingly-bizarre policies, and the initial flood of comments at the TSA's new blog demonstrated that.
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Date: 2008-02-04

Digg Can Kill You With Generosity
As the social media site Digg gains in membership, more people will try to hit links from its front page to a destination hosting a featured story. That could be bad.
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Date: 2008-02-01

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