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Trojans Prick PCs As Top Malware Threat
An assessment of the leading computer threats through the first half of 2008 found malware riding along in Trojans posing the most problems for people.
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Date: 2008-07-31

Design, Not Patching, Key To Secure Software
The current DNS cache poisoning variation requiring a fix on numerous nameservers around the globe could have been anticipated and stopped; one developer did that in 2000.
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Date: 2008-07-30

Photobucket Hack Attributed To Critical DNS Flaw
When photo sharing site Photobucket suffered an attack at the hands of Turkish hackers, it turns out they exploited the serious DNS vulnerability later detailed by security researcher Dan Kaminsky.
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Date: 2008-07-29

Open Source, The Patriotic Solution
Noted technologist Tim Bray repeated a call for the work of civic processes to use open source software for fulfillment.
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Date: 2008-07-28

Olympic Spam Reaching Olympian Proportions
A couple of weeks ahead of the Beijing Olympics, spammers continue to rollout millions of messages with an Olympic theme.
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Date: 2008-07-25

Metasploit Loads Up DNS Attack Code
Script kiddies and sophisticated hackers gained easy access to code for exploiting a critical flaw in the domain name service (DNS) system when the Metasploit Project added two attacks to its toolkit.
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Date: 2008-07-24

Romanian Pleads Guilty In US Phishing Case
Eighteen months after being indicted by a federal court, one of a group of seven Romanian citizens pleaded guilty to involvement with phishing bank details from people.
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Date: 2008-07-23

DNS Flaw Details Emerge
Security pros have been urged to patch vulnerable DNS systems if they have not done so already.
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Date: 2008-07-22

Server Theft Trumps Server Hacking
The brute force technique applied to physical goods long before it ever came up in the conversation about breaking passwords to gain access to resources.
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Date: 2008-07-21

Critical DNS Issue Threatens Internet
No hyperbole, no joke. People familiar with a flaw in the domain name system sounded a sobering call to administrators everywhere to fix their systems.
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Date: 2008-07-18

Mozilla Patches Firefox 3
A fix for a vulnerability reported a few hours after the Firefox 3 Download Day opened began arriving on people's computers.
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Date: 2008-07-17

Oracle Troubled By Web Component Security
The latest run of vulnerability fixes released by Oracle showed troubling trends with making services available with web-facing resources.
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Date: 2008-07-16

Unpatched Systems Survive Four Minutes Online
The presence of a firewall helps, but without something blocking the path from automated probes to one's PC, its survivability declines rapidly.
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Date: 2008-07-15

Internet Cafes Threatened Ahead Of Olympics
Throngs of visitors to China during the Summer Olympics will include many who want to check up on their email or other online resources. That could be a problem.
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Date: 2008-07-14

Swiss Slammed By Lots Of Spam
Inboxes in the tiny European country picked up far more spam than anywhere else in the world during the month of June.
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Date: 2008-07-11

Microsoft Patch, ZoneAlarm Make PCs Too Secure
A little incompatibility between a fix for the Windows Domain Name System caused users of a popular firewall product to lose their Internet connections.
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Date: 2008-07-10

Get Ready: Windows XP SP3 On Tap
Microsoft pegged July 10th at 1 pm EDT as the release date and time for the third service pack for the Windows XP operating system.
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Date: 2008-07-09

Fortune 500 Lacking In Email Validation
One vendor claimed some 60 percent of the Fortune 500 do not use methods of qualifying outgoing email, which could leave them open to being spoofed by forgers.
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Date: 2008-07-08

Google Discovers Privacy
"Privacy" became part of Google's home page just before the 4th of July. You're forgiven if you missed the switch.
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Date: 2008-07-07

Google Open-Sources Ratproxy Security Tool
An internally-used web application security assessment tool called ratproxy gained broader availability with Google's decision to release it publicly.
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Date: 2008-07-03

Software Should Be Like Food
Researchers of web browser security suggested a "best before" approach to informing people their software may not be so fresh any longer.
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Date: 2008-07-02

Feds Slowly Improving In Computer Security
Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) requirements pad on the paperwork for agencies, but the demands of the Act have made a positive impact in computer security.
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Date: 2008-07-01

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