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Fake Barack Obama Sites Lead To Malware
PandaLabs says it has detected 40 Web sites that are using Barack Obama, President-elect of the United States, as bait to spread malware.
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Date: 2009-01-19

Fake Barack Obama Sites Contain Malware
PandaLabs says it has detected 40 Web sites that are using Barack Obama, President-elect of the United States, as bait to spread malware.
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Date: 2009-01-19

The Botnet Heavyweights Of 2009
SecureNetworks' list of "bots to watch in 2009" reads like an overview of heavyweight boxers, detailing weight, records, and fighting styles. The good news is some heavy hitters retired in 2008.
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Date: 2009-01-16

Securing The Presidential Blackberry
The Presidential Blackberry. Wouldn't you love to get a glimpse of it? That's precisely the problem, former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Joe Hagin told SecurityProNews. While President Bush travels generally incommunicado-that is, unthinkably for most us, sans mobile phone-the President-Elect is in a very public argument for retention of his pre-election smart phone.
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Date: 2009-01-15

Spam News: Michelle Obama Hotter Than Britney?
Well, socially speaking, there being more interest in First Lady-Elect Michelle Obama than in Britney Spears or Paris Hilton is a positive change, one that bodes well for society. On the flip side, as Inauguration Day nears, spammers are rewarding that renewed interest in affairs of state with an onslaught of junk mail
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Date: 2009-01-14

Microsoft Quietly Patches First Tuesday In ‘09
Microsoft followed up last month's dramatic, record-breaking Patch Tuesday with a much quieter one this time, releasing a single security bulletin addressing three vulnerabilities in Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003.
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Date: 2009-01-13

Conficker Worm Spooks Security Researchers
Security experts are warning that malware authors may be gearing up for a large-scale attack via what's been dubbed the "Conficker worm," a virus exploiting a Microsoft Windows server vulnerability and spread via USB device.
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Date: 2009-01-12

Crooks Target Inboxes With CNN Gaza News
Cybercrooks' latest attempt at your bank account comes in the form of CNN.com look-alike emails leading to CNN look-alike webpages offering graphic videos from Gaza via a fake Adobe Flash player.
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Date: 2009-01-11

Unemployed A Big Spam/Phishing Target In 2009
Expect more sophisticated spamming in 2009. And thanks to the economy, an increase in scams targeting the down and out, the tax-rebate hopeful, and the noble yet digitally naïve pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps market.
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Date: 2009-01-10

Hacker Claims Responsibility For Celeb Hacks
It would be hard to be more embarrassed than the guy caught with his pants down at the ski life-whose photos are at SmokingGun-but if there's a contender, it's "Crystal" at Twitter, whose admin support account was hacked by a standard "dictionary" attack.
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Date: 2009-01-09

Celeb Twitters Hacked
It was an especially nasty Monday morning at Twitter yesterday. Likely the staff didn't have time to fully wallow in post-holiday back-to-work blues for all the fires to be put out. In addition to a widespread phishing scam over the weekend, 33 celebrity accounts were hacked.
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Date: 2009-01-06

Twitter-Based Phishing Scam Raises Alarms
It was only a matter of time before hackers targeted the increasingly popular Twitter microblogging platform. Over the weekend, phishers sent out direct messages appearing to be from Tweeters, but were really password gathering decoys.
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Date: 2009-01-05

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