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Canned Air Helped Beat Encrypted Hard Drives
Sure the custom software had something to do with it, but some students at Princeton also found that compressed air enabled an unlikely crack.
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Date: 2008-06-30

ICANN, IANA, Fall Prey To Hacks
Turkish hackers believed responsible for shenanigans with image site Photobucket.com's domain earlier in June struck at two major domains that hold responsibilities affecting the entire Internet.
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Date: 2008-06-27

Microsoft, Google Endorse Health Records Standard
The two big tech companies joined with a variety of insurers and consumer groups in backing standards governing the privacy and accessibility of health information online.
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Date: 2008-06-26

HP Writes Scrawlr For SQL Injection Detection
A recent spate of thousands of SQL injection attacks across the Internet created the need for a tool to diagnose a website's potential vulnerability to them.
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Date: 2008-06-25

Judge, Jury, And Google Trends
A Florida trial will serve as the venue for an interesting defense: determining if searching for adult content is mainstream enough to get a defendant out of an obscenity charge.
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Date: 2008-06-24

Early Russert Wikipedia Update Leads To Firing
Securing confidential trade secrets poses one challenge to security pros, but the spread of private inside chatter via the Internet makes for an impossible task.
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Date: 2008-06-23

Mozilla Sees Little Risk In Firefox 3 Flaw
A vulnerability affecting both the latest version of the Firefox browser as well as the previous one, Firefox 2, poses minimal concerns for users according to Mozilla.
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Date: 2008-06-20

Instant Worm Creation Software Hits The Web
A point and click interface for turning .exe files into self-replicating worms makes malware creation an easy prospect for attackers.
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Date: 2008-06-19

Router Attacks Witnessed In The Wild
A variant of the Zlob Trojan may be carrying an exploit against routers, subjecting them to brute force attacks against login procedures.
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Date: 2008-06-18

Spammers Shield Junk With Google Docs
Another tool in the arsenal of spammers comes courtesy of a well-meaning service from Google.
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Date: 2008-06-17

Universities Show Little Control Over Personal Data
Columbia and the University of Florida are two of the latest schools with personally identifiable information about their students posted by the thousands online.
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Date: 2008-06-16

Voice Phishing Rising In Threat
Vishing, or voice over Internet Protocol phishing, attempts to steal information from people via the phone rather than the computer.
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Date: 2008-06-13

Once Again, China Implicated In Computer Espionage
At the highest levels of government in the United States, some Congressmen believe attackers from China infiltrated their computers.
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Date: 2008-06-12

Microsoft Closes Critical Bluetooth Flaw
The monthly updates from Microsoft brought a few Critical repairs to its customers; one fix corrected a remotely executable vulnerability in the Bluetooth stack.
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Date: 2008-06-11

Microsoft Sues Repeat Offenders Over Piracy
Sellers of counterfeit software continue to bedevil Microsoft, as the company announced a new series of lawsuits against sellers of pirated versions of Windows.
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Date: 2008-06-10

Economy, IRS Figure In May Spam
The monthly look at the State of Spam by security vendor Symantec found the usual efforts to take advantage of current events by spammers.
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Date: 2008-06-09

4Chan Stadium Threat Hoaxer Sentenced
An ex-grocery clerk in Wisconsin who repeatedly posted threats of stadium bombings to a website will spend six months in jail.
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Date: 2008-06-06

Romania, Hong Kong Top List Of Dangerous TLDs
Whatever the reason, .ro domains figured prominently in a look at where the most dangerous sites on the Internet reside.
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Date: 2008-06-05

Walter Reed Medical Suffers Data Breach
File sharing blamed for compromise that may have exposed patient data from the military health system with an outsider.
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Date: 2008-06-04

Gutierrez Possible Victim Of Chinese Cyber Spying
Whispers about a potential malware compromise of computers used by Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez during a trip to China raises suspicions in Washington.
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Date: 2008-06-03

Unlocking The Security Of Locks
Hackers at New York's 'The Last HOPE' conference in July plan to discuss security of a different sort: the humble, physical lock.
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Date: 2008-06-02

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