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Colorado Spammer Sentenced To Prison
A Colorado man who ran a large spam operation has been sentenced to 21 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $714,139 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
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Date: 2008-04-30

Israeli Private Eyes Stole Corporate Secrets
A private investigation firm made use of spyware to pilfer secrets from companies in Israel; four of their staffers received criminal sentences.
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Date: 2008-04-29

iPhone Gains VPN Boost With Check Point
VPN-1 support from security vendor Check Point for Apple's iPhone arrived as the glitzy gadget continues to gain fans from enterprise users.
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Date: 2008-04-28

Microsoft Patch Process Called Security Risk
Patch Tuesday could be Exploit Tuesday if malicious hackers escalate the rate at which they reverse engineer security patches.
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Date: 2008-04-25

SQL Injections Hitting Thousands Of Sites
The dynamic capabilities of websites powered by back-end databases made thousands of them targets for injections of unsanitized code.
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Date: 2008-04-24

Baker College Takes Cyber Defense Crown
The 3rd annual National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC) featured teams of students working to be the best at defending a business network from threats.
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Date: 2008-04-23

More ISPs Quietly Interfere With P2P
Comcast serves as the most visible target for Internet users' anger over tampering with BitTorrent and other peer to peer traffic, but the issue may extend beyond them to other Internet service providers.
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Date: 2008-04-22

Microsoft Won't Sue Over Legitimate Flaw Discovery
Security researchers do not want to end up being arrested or sued for pointing out problems on a website, and Microsoft would rather know the awful truth than prosecute.
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Date: 2008-04-21

Google Touts Malware Fight, Skips Real Question
The ongoing battle against malware brought plenty of good guys to the fight, but Google's latest discussion of its role leaves out a key question.
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Date: 2008-04-18

Mozilla Fixes Critical Firefox JavaScript Issue
Garbage collection in the Firefox JavaScript engine caused browser crashes for some people.
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Date: 2008-04-17

Oracle Issues Critical Product Fixes
Patches for the Oracle database and other products arrived as part of the company's quarterly fix cycle.
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Date: 2008-04-16

US District Court Spoofed By Malware Criminals
A wave of phishing spam tries to fake out recipients by spoofing a subpoena from a US District Court.
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Date: 2008-04-15

Old Mistakes Cause New Security Problems
The more things change, the more developers keep making the same mistakes, leading to exploits and other problems for visitors.
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Date: 2008-04-14

Should We Know Where To Find Google?
A publication recently put out a list of Google's datacenters by city; though it's interesting to us, Google probably has good reasons for not appreciating it.
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Date: 2008-04-11

Damballa Responds To Kraken Criticisms
Security researchers at Damballa who discussed a big new botnet received lots of pushback from the security community.
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Date: 2008-04-10

Microsoft Patches Crack Down On Drive-Bys
Malicious websites could exploit unpatched components in Internet Explorer and other Microsoft technologies.
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Date: 2008-04-09

Kraken Exceeds Storm Botnet In Size
A new headache for security pros from the Fortune 500 on down emerged in accounts of a wider-reaching botnet called Kraken.
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Date: 2008-04-08

EU: 18 Months Too Long To Keep Search Data
The Article 29 Data Protection Working Party in Europe wants search engines to commit to a much shorter period of data retention than they enjoy today.
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Date: 2008-04-07

Google Dinged Over SEO Poisoning
The search optimization poisoning attacks against dozens of websites continues its onslaught, with infected search results showing up in Google.
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Date: 2008-04-04

Another Young Cyber Criminal Eludes Jail
Botnet runner Owen Walker, aka AKILL and other names, committed and profited from his role in a gang that infected over a million computers, but did so under the age of 18.
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Date: 2008-04-03

Hannaford Grocery Breached With Malware
The introduction of malware into the grocery chain's network allowed outsiders to grab credit card information as it traveled from the point-of-sale to the company's back end systems.
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Date: 2008-04-02

IBM Banned From New Government Contracts
An ongoing dispute with the Environmental Protection Agency led to the EPA, and all government agencies by extension, banning IBM from receiving new contracts and other federal business.
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Date: 2008-04-01

Advance Auto Parts Compromised For Card Data
People who used credit or debit cards at one of 14 locations identified by Advance Auto Parts may have had that information accessed via a network breach.
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Date: 2008-04-01

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