Oracle’s Early Security Patch Release: 11i Update
Database monster Oracle released an out-of-cycle security patch with multiple fixes for what are considered high-risk vulnerabilities for their enterprise customers. The product in question relates to the Oracle Diagnostics troubleshooting feature of the E-Business Suite 11i and it comes as nearly two months ahead of schedule.
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Date: 2006-02-28
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Politically Motivated Cyber Attacks On the Rise
Politically motivated cyber attacks were on the rise in 2005 according to statistics released by Zone-H. The numbers of attacks from Jyhadi cyber hackers as well as the attacks of Chinese hackers on U.S. military sites figure into the study as well. The information shows the problem is only getting worse.
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Date: 2006-02-28
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OS X In Hacker’s Gun Sites
Recent debates over the safety of Mac OS X or the lack thereof have been traveling around the Internet. Loyal Mac folks chomp at the bit every time someone suggests their machine may be becoming unsafe but the reality is just that. The cold fact is Macs aren't as safe as they used to be and it's only going to get worse.
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Date: 2006-02-28
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Trojans For Java Using Mobiles
Cybercriminals seem to be constantly expanding their scope. This time they're moving further into the mobile phone market, targeting phones that are Java application capable. A new Trojan called RedBrowser looks to be making the rounds now and while it is annoying, it's easily beatable.
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Date: 2006-02-27
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IBM Bucks Microsoft’s Infocard
IBM announced they are developing an open source initiative they call "Project Higgins" that will compete directly with Microsoft's recently announced Infocard. The purpose is to develop online identity management, giving people more control while protecting the relevant information.
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Date: 2006-02-27
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Computer Security Awareness Video Contest
The EDUCAUSE/ Internet2 Computer and Network Security Taskforce (NSTF) along with the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) sponsored a video contest in order to teach people the dangers involved in cyber security.
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Date: 2006-02-27
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Record Heist In UK
Most features here regard cyber security and various issues surrounding it. This story is a story of a security breach not in the security world but at a security facility in Kent, UK. The heist, carried out during the cold early morning of February 22nd, hit a total of ₤53 million or $92 million, making it the largest cash robbery in British history.
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Date: 2006-02-27
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Michelle Malkin Hit By Jyhadi Cyberhackers
Political columnist and blogger Michelle Malkin was the victim of denial of service (DoS) attack on Thursday after Turkish hackers knocked her site down. While the blog is back up and running, the problem of cyber attacks is still there.
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Date: 2006-02-24
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Sophos Fixes False Positive
Security software firm Sophos recently had a breakthrough announcement with the discovery of virus concepts related to the OS X operating system for Apple Macs. The cure they offered in the form of a security update looks to have been worse than the disease.
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Date: 2006-02-24
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CardSystems Solutions Redux: The Settlement
The company CardSystems Solutions reached a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). They were part of the ninth and largest financial data breach in history, compromising tens of millions of people's financial information.
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Date: 2006-02-23
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Islamic Hacker Picked Up In France
One of the latest trends in terrorism is to vandalize websites through defacement. Sites are hacked and various messages resembling cyber-graffiti will be left on the sites. On Tuesday, the Paris PJ arrested the Moroccan hacker known as Yanis in Metz.
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Date: 2006-02-23
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2005 CyberStalking Statistics
The cybercrime watchdog group, Working to Halt Online Abuse (WHOA) released their 2005. They're finding out some of the major harassers are white-collar folks including teachers, lawyers and businesspeople. It could even be your neighbor.
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Date: 2006-02-23
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McAfee Rattles Photoshop
Adobe, makers of wonderful software, including Photoshop, posted a bulletin regarding the image software. It seems a problem with McAfee VirusScan 8.0i crept up and it's affecting Photoshop CS2 dramatically.
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Date: 2006-02-22
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OverPhishing Continues To Grow
Phishing websites grew by leaps and bounds according to a new report by the Anti-Phishing Working Group. The number of phishing sites as well as the site that spread malware for password-stealing continued to proliferate in December 2005 and show no signs of getting any better.
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Date: 2006-02-22
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Teen Bloggers Offer Too Much Information
A new study of teen bloggers, aged 13 to 17, turned a lot of new and useful information about teen bloggers. Unfortunately, some of that information wasn't so good. Teenagers tend to open up on their online diaries and in so doing reveal all kinds of information like names, phone numbers and details of their life.
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Date: 2006-02-21
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Chinese Hack Into Lineage
South Korean network security firm GEOT blamed Chinese hackers for a massive hit, raiding private information from tens of thousands of people involved in the popular South Korean mmorpg known as "Lineage.
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Date: 2006-02-21
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More Mac Viral Love: Inqtana
F-Secure picked up on two more variants of the Inqtana worms. While the worms are extremely limited in their lifespan, they do show hackers are beginning to play with the code and more serious threats will be coming soon.
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Date: 2006-02-21
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New Mare Kicks At Linux
Much attention is going to other viral issues on other operating systems right now. That doesn't mean operating systems like Linux don't feel the love because it does. The delightfully well-received Mare family of worms has yet another offspring and this one exploits a vulnerability in Mambo.
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Date: 2006-02-20
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Apple’s Words of Wisdom
It seems Apple has sent a warning to hackers. As the first viruses for the vaunted inherently more secure Mac OS X, Apple left messages sprinkled throughout their operating system for would-be hackers with pirating plans.
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Date: 2006-02-20
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Another Company With Microsoft Anti-Spyware Problems
Microsoft is a mixed bag for many regarding cyber security. Last week, Microsoft's anti-spyware beta scanned computer with Symantec's Norton anti-virus and called it a password stealer. Now another company, BitDefender, reports similar problems. They weren't too happy either.
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Date: 2006-02-17
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Microsoft Weekly Security Release
Microsoft released their monthly security patch on Tuesday and it included seven security bulletins. The bulletins varied and cover a number of different problems. Two of those bulletins were rated critical and five were rated as important.
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Date: 2006-02-17
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Olympic Gold Medalist And Spyware Distributor
Australian skier and Olympic Gold Medalist Dale Begg-Smith also looks to be a first-rate spyware distributor. The site StopScum.com put together the information discussing Begg-Smith and his brother and their background because the only thing they do as well as skiing is spyware.
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Date: 2006-02-17
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A Worm In The Apple
Abingdon, England-based SophosLabs discovered a worm in the Apple OS X platform. The virus named OSX/Leap-A or OSX/Oompa-A moves through instant messaging, specifically, the iChat client.
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Date: 2006-02-16
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UK Wants Backdoor Into Windows
The UK wants in through the backdoor of Windows and they're negotiating with Microsoft over it. The logic from the UK is the new Windows: Vista will make it more difficult for police to peruse suspects' computer files.
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Date: 2006-02-16
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Croatian Crashes BitDefender For Beer, Vampires
Security software company BitDefender recently held a contest called "Crash and Win," inviting Linux junkies to take a shot at their beta version of Mail Protection for Enterprises product. While obviously a promotional ploy, it's definitely cool as first prize was a road trip to Transylvania (Romania) and 1,024 German beers to enjoy on the way.
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Date: 2006-02-15
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NCSA Examines 2006 Cyber Threats
In conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) announced their Internet threat list for 2006 and online best practices to help protect consumers from online threats.
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Date: 2006-02-15
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Brazilian Hacker Smash
Brazilian authorities raided a phishing scam, arresting 55 people, in which authorities believe millions of dollars were stolen. The scams reportedly swiped $4.6 million from 200 accounts in six different banks.
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Date: 2006-02-15
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Olympic Computer Viruses
The Olympics is meant to be a symbol of international cooperation and goodwill. Hundreds of athletes from all over the world compete in the winter and summer Olympic games. With the Winter Olympiad currently underway in Torino, Italy, it also provides an excellent opportunity for a few jerks to load pass out new viruses.
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Date: 2006-02-14
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New Danish Websites Hacked
Muslim hackers continue their retaliatory assault on Danish websites over the political cartoons run in Danish newspapers last year and more recently in other European publications. As this story is being written, the number is up to 1819 Danish sites alone and continues to rise.
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Date: 2006-02-14
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China Can’t Deal With Pirates
Most of the time, pirates in any venue are looked down upon. Those who spread secrets aren't always the good guys. In China, however, these two groups, while being looked down upon are becoming heroes to some as they attempt to break through China's intense scrutiny and censorship of all types of media.
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Date: 2006-02-14
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Bagle-EN Gets Cream Cheese: Dedicated SMTP Engine
It seems Bagles are found at more places than the local deli. A new version of the mailing worm Bagle-en@MM uses its own SMTP engine to send itself to all your friends and relatives. Don't forget it also gets keys to the backdoor.
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Date: 2006-02-10
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New Email Scam Tags Fund Firm
Some people get the scams in their email everyday. Some wealthy person died in a foreign country in an airplane crash or you won some European lottery or some other asinine scm. There's a new scheme in town and it's picking on Boston-based financial management firm Fidelity Investments and its investors.
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Date: 2006-02-10
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Microsoft Shows New Firewall Beta
Microsoft's been putting out some eye candy leading up to next week's RSA Conference. They opened the shades on their new ISA 2006 firewall public beta and threw in some new Client Protection and Antigen for Exchange early customer betas for bling-bling.
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Date: 2006-02-10
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Firefox Exploits Abound
Last week, Mozilla distributed a critical update for their Firefox browser. For those who didn't update, they should because the exploits are out now and they hit hard. The bug hit the net on Tuesday most security folks are saying update now.
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Date: 2006-02-09
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German Wikipedia Off The Hook
In a recent suit brought against Wikipedia associates at Wikipedia.de, the German district court in Charlottenburg found for the defendants. The case involved the parents of the deceased hacker known as Tron suing because Tron's actual name had been listed on a Wikipedia entry regarding him.
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Date: 2006-02-09
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Hacking MySpace
The online social communities have become incredibly popular with many people. One of the most popular of these social communities is MySpace. While many people register on these sites, one thing people find annoying are the ads, even in their profiles. It seems someone has found a way to make changes to that profile, of course without the blessing of MySpace.
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Date: 2006-02-09
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Liberty Alliance Continues To Grow
The Liberty Alliance Project, a consortium aimed at improving online authentication standards announced this morning the addition of 15 new members to its growing list of powerful players.
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Date: 2006-02-08
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Russian Bugs Bust French Internet Users
Computer criminals from Russia lifted more than €1 million from French bank accounts using what some call sleeper bugs to infect computers. The little bug was quick and dirty when some customers got hit for as much as €40,000 in a fell swoop.
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Date: 2006-02-08
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More Windows Security Problems
Microsoft issued security advisories on Tuesday regarding vulnerabilities in Windows. First comes another possible problem tied to the WMF vulnerability and the other is tied to a research paper about default services behavior.
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Date: 2006-02-08
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Windows OneCare Live Is On Its Way
Discussions on Microsoft's security product have been ongoing for some time. The discussion will really kick in as Microsoft let it be known the Windows OneCare Live is coming out shortly. The new product is expected to challenge Symantec and McAfee for dominance.
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Date: 2006-02-07
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Spanish Hacker Heads For Hoosegow
Sometimes getting even isn't such a good idea. Santiago Garrido, 26, decided a "denial of service" worm was the way to go when he got booted from the "Hispano" IRC chat room.
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Date: 2006-02-07
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NyxemD Update: Indian Damage Control
While the NyxemD virus remained a low threat for many people in this country, some places had a problem with it. Reports from other countries are coming in detailing the extent of the damage. The first big report comes from India and a few users had problems.
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Date: 2006-02-07
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LogLogic Logs Exchange Email
San Jose-based LogLogic announced on Monday the first edition of their information logging software designed to keep track of all email messages running on Microsoft's Exchange Server.
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Date: 2006-02-07
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IE7 Glitches
Fortunately, Betas are sent out to find problems. Microsoft put out Internet Explorer 7 Beta2 Preview (IE7B2P) for just that reason. They weren't disappointed because as IE7 got used, it opened up like a rotten log and bugs came flying in all directions.
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Date: 2006-02-06
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NyxemD: The Little Worm That Didn’t
NyxemD, perhaps better known as the Kama Sutra worm had the potential to be very nasty. Fortunately, people paid attention and cleaned it from their computers. Damage was minimal and that's a good sign. The tallies are coming with the statistics. What did they say?
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Date: 2006-02-06
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Hacking Xboxes For Fun And Profit
Apparently, the original Xbox has been completely hacked without the need for any modchip/softmod. According to hackers online, this also opens the door for them to really begin hacking on the Xbox360.
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Date: 2006-02-06
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Mozilla Needed A Fix
Mozilla pushed out a new version of its Firefox browser on Wednesday and it contains a number of critical security updates. Something to note about this release is it's the first time Mozilla has used the auto-update feature.
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Date: 2006-02-03
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White House Email Controversy
Most people have heard of the special investigation into the Bush administration's apparent leak of undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame. While one could write volumes on the politics and the legalities involved, for our purposes, we will discuss email archival or in this case, the apparent lack thereof.
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Date: 2006-02-03
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Biometrics Cracked
A new case surfacing in Holland this week on the Dutch TV show Nieuwslicht (Newslight) said the security of a biometric passport had been compromised. Apparently, the hackers read the passport remotely and then cracked the security using inherent flaws. The biometric data was then accessible.
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Date: 2006-02-02
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Identity Theft Continues To Climb
A new study published yesterday said identity fraud was up to $57 billion in 2005. While online fraud was significant, it wasn't the main factor. The study suggested only 10% of ID fraud cases happened on the online.
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Date: 2006-02-02
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Honeywell Employee Information Posted On The Net
Honeywell International has some issues to resolve regarding its employees. The company is offering credit monitoring and identity theft insurance after 19,000 current and former employees had all their personal information posted on the net.
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Date: 2006-02-02
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Kama Sutra Showing The Love
The Kama Sutra worm is dropping its load tomorrow and you better have your security updated. This worm isn't a scammer or a phisher or a spammer. It's a destroyer. It's not looking to access your information for credit card numbers. It's looking to wipe out files from your hard drive, not all of them but enough to make it annoying certainly.
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Date: 2006-02-02
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FTC Slaps Down Spammers
The Federal Trade Commission convinced a federal judge to issue a restraining order in January against three people accused of spamming according to a statement from the FTC on Tuesday.
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Date: 2006-02-01
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eBay Buyers Want What’s In Your Hard Drive
Maybe you should clean out your hard drive before you put it up for sale on eBay. People may want to see what's in it. A researcher suggested on Monday that people search for hard drives with lots of interesting information on hard drives for sale at the online auction house. This includes personal information like credit card numbers, let alone what you download.
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Date: 2006-02-01
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Symantec Picks Up Oracle CIO
Security software giant Symantec picked up a new hire with some import. The new hire, David Thompson, comes directly from the database dudes at Oracle as their CIO. Now he'll do the CIO thing for the kids at Symantec.
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Date: 2006-02-01
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Microsoft’s OneCare: Spywares’ Best Friend?
One of the great battles raging on the Internet is one of spyware and adware. People don't want it and don't need it because it can cause real problems for one's computer. Microsoft's new two-way firewall, OneCare doesn't offer right way protection because it leaves the hole open for spyware to get into a user's PC.
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Date: 2006-02-01
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