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Media Defender is Accused of Illegally DDoS’ing Revision 3
Truth is often stranger than fiction, and in this case, this certainly holds true. Media Defender is accused of illegally DDoS'ing Revision 3, a media delivery company, because a back door to their bittorrent tracker was shut down.
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Date: 2008-05-30

TJX Dinged Over Security-Related Firing
A former employee of TJX, which suffered one of the hugest security breaches and exposures of consumer information in recorded history, claimed he had been fired for whistleblowing the company's practices.
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Date: 2008-05-29

Dell Slapped In NY Fraud Case
New York's Attorney General Andrew Cuomo won big against the computer maker, with Dell accused of numerous unsavory business practices regarding its financial and tech support offerings.
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Date: 2008-05-28

Aussie Telco Hands Out Infected USB Drives
A little perk delivered to AusCERT attendees by national telco Telstra contained a little something extra besides their storage capability.
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Date: 2008-05-27

Woops: Oklahoma Auctions Tax Data-Loaded Drive
A computer labeled as coming from the Oklahoma Tax Commission ended up in an auction with personally identifiable information, including Social Security numbers, intact and unencrypted.
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Date: 2008-05-23

Cisco Releases Trio Of Advisories
Cisco released three security advisories yesterday, and some onlookers are taking the move as a sign that the company is a little on edge. It seems the patches fall outside Cisco's normal release schedule, and also come right before an important rootkit presentation.
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Date: 2008-05-22

White House Parody Site Pranked With Malware
A malicious bit of code injection into whitehouse.org poses a concern because some people don't realize the authentic White House site is at whitehouse.gov.
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Date: 2008-05-21

Terrorism Courts The Web
A Senate Committee isn't happy with the way terrorist groups embraced online video and the web browser as a recruitment tool.
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Date: 2008-05-20

Chinese Sites Hit With Script Injections
A malware attack using a Javascript injection to exploit several old flaws targeted over 327,000 sites in Asia.
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Date: 2008-05-19

Apple's Odd Attitude About Safari
The hallmark of Apple's products makes them work as invisibly as possible for their users. In the case of the Safari web browser, it downloads items without letting people know it's happening.
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Date: 2008-05-16

Rumor: Cisco Rootkit Coming To EuSecWest
A researcher at Core Security allegedly created a rootkit for the widely-used Cisco brand of routers, and will reveal his research next week in London.
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Date: 2008-05-15

Microsoft Fixes Long-Standing MDB Flaw
Remote code execution vulnerabilities received attention from Microsoft in its most recent edition of Patch Tuesday updates; one has been publicly known for seven months.
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Date: 2008-05-14

America's Botnet Needed, Says AF Colonel
An Air Force colonel's suggestion that American needs a botnet provokes a strange idea: that the military and intelligence communities don't have one now.
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Date: 2008-05-13

Gas Savings Spam Fills Inboxes
The inevitable attention of spammers turned to soaring gas prices, with one set of junk messages promising a way to save at the pump.
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Date: 2008-05-12

Google Expands Enterprise Web Security
Security vendors had a stealth competitor enter the marketplace when Google announced it would offer a product that provides web security; Google recently extended security coverage to roaming enterprise users.
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Date: 2008-05-09

Utilities At Risk Over Network Security
Utilities' legacy systems receive updates to allow centralized management of their resources over a computer network. Convenient? Sure. Safe? Questionable.
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Date: 2008-05-08

Trojan Plaguing File Sharing Networks
A massive outbreak of malware began hitting media swappers hundreds of thousands of times nearly a week ago.
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Date: 2008-05-07

EFF Wonders About Digital Music Rights
The disclosure by Microsoft that they will disable license servers and eliminate the ability for MSN Music customers to listen to music purchased from the service on new computers drove the Electronic Frontier Foundation to cry foul.
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Date: 2008-05-06

India Cites Ongoing Chinese Cyber Attacks
A year and a half of electronic warfare against public and private network resources in India has been traced back to a variety of attacks and antagonists in China.
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Date: 2008-05-05

McAfee Digests Spam Experiment
The 30-day challenge to run an unprotected computer and surf the Internet while filling out every form and answering every spam ended with the reinforcement of a lesson: nothing comes for free.
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Date: 2008-05-02

Forgery Spam Still Hammering Inboxes
Junk mailings touting all kinds of products, including steeply discounted luxury item knockoffs, pose threats beyond dodgy products.
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Date: 2008-05-01

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