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Virgin Media To Strike Out Music Downloaders
The British ISP plans to obey the will of the music industry by warning and shutting off accounts for individuals accused of illicit file sharing.
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Date: 2008-03-31

Euro 2008 Ticket Reseller Infecting Site Visitors
It appears another code injection attack at a site reselling tickets for the Euro 2008 soccer matches put visitors at risk of a drive-by infection.
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Date: 2008-03-28

SafeCentral Locks Down Online Transactions
Authentium's Virtual ATM concept reemerged as a secure desktop-to-web application called SafeCentral, which looks like an ideal choice to prevent identity theft.
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Date: 2008-03-27

Porn, Viagra Ads Hawk Fake Security Software
A case in Washington state concerns a man using bogus security software to spam other computers via a Windows service.
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Date: 2008-03-26

Microsoft Admits Ignoring Jet Flaw
Security engineers at Microsoft ignored addressing this latest exploit for years, as they believed existing protections mitigated the threat.
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Date: 2008-03-25

Google AdWords Phish In The Wild
Don't get reeled in by this one if you are a Google AdWords client: a new stream of phishing emails aimed at you have been hitting inboxes.
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Date: 2008-03-24

Government Digital Security Leaks, We Bleed
A glacial readjustment of security priorities from the evil-outsider model to the accidental internal leaker of data leaves federal resources playing a frantic game of catch-up.
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Date: 2008-03-21

Justice Catching Up To Spammers
Daniel Mascia and Robert Soloway face federal penalties for their spamming, while Robert Bentley awaits a decision on leniency in exchange for his help in tracking down botnetters.
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Date: 2008-03-20

Software Spotlighted Spitzer Shenanigans
The US Government hates money laundering and anything that might indicate someone trying to evade taxes, or worse, fund terrorist activity.
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Date: 2008-03-19

Grocery Chain Bagged By Online Criminals
As many as 4.2 million credit card numbers were exposed during a security breach lasting several months at East Coast grocer Hannaford Bros.
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Date: 2008-03-18

Berners-Lee: Protect Consumers From Online Tracking
The man who gave the world the World Wide Web would give its users much more protection from tracking than they have today.
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Date: 2008-03-17

Google Keeps Safe With Log Data
The voluminous log files Google retains on the activities of its users actually helps the search company combat threats.
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Date: 2008-03-14

Massive Attack: 10,000 Pages Compromised
A large scale assault on computer users began with the corruption of over 10,000 web pages through code injection. The attackers are looking for online gaming passwords.
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Date: 2008-03-13

Seven Virus Pieces In Tibet
Bad puns on movie titles aside, the various components of a recently spotted computer threat uses images from Tibet to entice people to accept an attack on their systems.
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Date: 2008-03-12

Bloggies Award Site Hands Out Malware
Ahead of their awards ceremony at SXSW Interactive, the website for the Bloggies received a nasty dose of code injection.
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Date: 2008-03-11

Amazing Pentagon Breach Happened Last Summer
A vulnerability in Windows found itself at the end of accusatory fingers of blame over a June 2007 Pentagon hack that led to the theft of sensitive information from the nation's defense epicenter.
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Date: 2008-03-10

Pentagon Declares War On Google Mappers
After Google Street View images of Fort Sam Houston appeared online, the Pentagon declared all US military installations off limits to Google's vehicles.
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Date: 2008-03-07

WikiLeaks Gets Its Domain Back
Swiss bank Julius Baer backed off its legal efforts to thwart WikiLeaks, after a judge rescinded a prior order that took the company's wikileaks.org domain name offline.
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Date: 2008-03-06

Oodle Suggests Safety For Online Classified Deals
Meeting a seller in a dark and distant parking lot at 3 am with a large amount of cash to complete a transaction could be a really bad idea.
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Date: 2008-03-05

Oxfam Charity Spoofed By Lottery Scammers
You haven't won £850,000 ($1.68 million) from humanitarian charity Oxfam, no matter what an email message may tell you to the contrary.
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Date: 2008-03-04

Email, Web Monitoring Leads To Firings
As security pros battle to keep their enterprises secure and sensitive data inside the network, their monitoring efforts have yielded plenty of real-world impacts.
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Date: 2008-03-03

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