OpenOffice Requires An Update
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported with the freely available OpenOffice productivity suite, requiring an update to a later incremental version or a patch depending on the version in use.
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Date: 2006-06-30
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Sheriff's Department Combats Open Wi-Fi
If you are in control of an open Wi-Fi access point (and if you live in Douglas County, Colorado), the police may come a-knocking at your door in the near future. It won't necessarily be a bad thing, though - they'll just advise you to lock the access point down.
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Date: 2006-06-30
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Spain Tries To End Piracy, File-Sharing
The Spanish government is attempting to end piracy with two drastic new laws. The first measure will ban peer-to-peer file-sharing; the second introduces a tax on all blank media, including memory chips, CDs, and DVDs.
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Date: 2006-06-30
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Blue Pill A Threat To Vista x64
Hypervisor technology will allow a prototype malware rootkit to take control of a system and do so in a way that even advanced Windows x64 systems will not be able to detect.
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Date: 2006-06-29
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Unsecured Wi-Fi: A Cause For Concern?
Researchers at the University of Indiana found that almost half of the Wi-Fi access points in Indianapolis don't run encryption. This seems like a major oversight. But security expert Bruce Schneier thinks it doesn't particularly matter.
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Date: 2006-06-29
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Protecting rm
It was once very fashionable in Linux distros to alias rm to "rm -i". I don't see that as often as I used to, which surprises me: it can only mean that everyone else hates that as much as I do.
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Date: 2006-06-29
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Veterans Affairs Recovers Stolen Data
The $50,000 reward for the return of data stolen from the home of an analyst with the federal agency has paid off as someone turned in the missing hardware containing the personal information about 26.5 million military personnel.
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Date: 2006-06-29
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Backdoor Trojan Unleashes Dual-Media Attack
Security experts at MicroWorld Technologies have received reports about a text message being spammed to mobile phone users in US and parts of Canada, thanking them for subscribing to a nonexistent dating website that would charge them $2 per day. To unsubscribe the service, you are told to visit a URL and follow the instructions.
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Date: 2006-06-28
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Phishing Fears
If Rachna Dhamija is right, the problem of phishing is a dangerous one. What's more, Dhamija believes it may become worse, and that the current approach to solving it won't do. Dhamija is a co-author of the paper "Why Phishing Works," and the creator of Dynamic Security Skins.
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Date: 2006-06-28
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Verimatrix Secures Russian IPTV
Verimatrix released a statement on Monday that it will secure Russian Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) deployment. The Verimatrix Content Authority System (VCAS) will serve "the first ever interactive television service for the Siberian region of Russia."
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Date: 2006-06-28
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Patrolling The Mean Cyber-Streets: Norton Confidential
Symantec has introduced a product that sounds more like a bad cop show than a security solution. Behold: Norton Confidential. The press release describes it as "a comprehensive online transaction security solution that will allow consumers to transact on the Internet with confidence that their personal information will remain safe."
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Date: 2006-06-27
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Anti-Virus Market Going Strong – For Now
If you're looking to make some money, the anti-virus market is a good place to be. Global anti-virus software revenues reached $4 billion in 2005, which constitutes a 13.6 percent over 2004 sales. Continued growth is expected in the short term.
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Date: 2006-06-27
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Rasman Exploit Razzes Microsoft
Although the issue was fixed with Microsoft's June patch update, Microsoft wants its XP SP1 and 2000 SP4 users to make sure they have indeed picked up the re-release of the fix.
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Date: 2006-06-27
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Virus Gang Busted Up In Europe
Three people in two countries found themselves in handcuffs as law enforcement cracked down on a trio alleged to have been involved with computer worm attacks.
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Date: 2006-06-27
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McAfee to Present at ABA's Info Security Forum
Todd Gebhart, Senior Vice President of McAfee's consumer and mobile business division, and Douglas Sabo, McAfee's director of government relations and corporate citizenship, will be presenting at the American Bankers Association's Information Security Forum.
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Date: 2006-06-26
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Schmidt On Cybercrime
Howard Schmidt believes that cybercrimes are taking place with increasing frequency, and in ways that are increasingly complex. Schmidt, who was a cyber-security adviser to the Bush administration, the former chief information security officer at Microsoft and eBay, and now works for R&H Security Consulting, spoke at an SD forum seminar.
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Date: 2006-06-26
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EFF Fights AT&T Over State Secrets
The latest battle in the class action suit filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation over allegations of wholesale electronic surveillance of Internet traffic by AT&T focused on the federal government's assertion that the case should be dismissed under state secrets privilege.
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Date: 2006-06-24
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Microsoft Helps Feds Nail Phisher
Jayson Harris, 23, of Davenport, Iowa, picked up a jail sentence and fines as handed down by a federal judge for his role in crafting and operating a phishing site that spoofed MSN.
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Date: 2006-06-23
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Security and Maintenance of Messages in Outlook Express
With the excessive use of e-mail and e-commerce, the amount of confidential information being exchanged over the Internet has been growing at a rapid pace. As a result, the need to ensure the integrity, security, and privacy of e-mail messages is becoming an essential part of the corporate world.
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Date: 2006-06-23
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Hacker Named In Torrentspy Suit
Some time ago, Valence Media, parent company to Torrentspy, filed a lawsuit alleging that the MPAA had hired a hacker to steal data. Now that previously anonymous hacker has been identified.
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Date: 2006-06-23
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Ohio University Security Fails
Ohio University has an annual surplus to the tune of $1.4 million (on average), according to a report from Moran Technology Consulting. The company blames the school for not spending some of this on data security. To say OU has had security problems would be a gross understatement.
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Date: 2006-06-23
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Authentication To Save The Internet?
"I think security is only going to get worse and every proposed product is doomed to failure," Roger A. Grimes wrote earlier today. "I predict that within a few days the Internet will collapse and online communication as we know it will cease to exist and the Internet will have to be rebuilt from the ashes over the next six months."
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Date: 2006-06-23
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IT Networking: Cost-Savings, Productivity and Security
By engaging small business decision makers in discussions about their IT networking needs, you can highlight how automating services like faxing will save your prospect's or client's company on manual labor, which indirectly translates into substantial salary savings over the course of the year.
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Date: 2006-06-22
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DRM: Protect Your Video and Audio Streams
Digital Rights Management (DRM) can protect your streaming files across the internet by adding rules of usage to your files. With audio and video files being added to websites many owners are now concerned how those files are being used by others that access them.
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Date: 2006-06-22
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Duo Hack Laptop Through Wi-Fi Driver
In a presentation at the impending Black Hat USA 2006 conference, two security researchers will demonstrate how they managed to take over a laptop computer by exploiting poorly written code in the wireless device driver.
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Date: 2006-06-22
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Hacker Cites Government Cover-up, UFOs
A British hacker who broke into the computer systems of the U.S. military claimed he did it in order to research UFOs. That's not some tech-related acronym that you haven't encountered; Gary McKinnon says he was researching unidentified flying objects of extraterrestrial origin.
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Date: 2006-06-21
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Employers, Protect Your Employees Against Identity Theft
As more and more Americans are becoming victims of identity theft, many employers are increasing their level of security to protect their employees. A recent General Accounting Office report estimates that as many as 750,000 Americans are victims of identity theft every year. So, what can you do to protect your employees?
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Date: 2006-06-21
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Google Promotes Consumer Privacy
Google wants to protect your privacy. That's what the company is claiming, anyway, as it joins the Consumer Privacy Legislative Forum. This group would do away with the contradictory and sometimes incomplete mess of regulatory state laws, and enact a federal law in their place.
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Date: 2006-06-20
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Young Programmer Develops Security Solutions
It seems that far too many gifted young programmers choose to act as hackers. It's a way to make a name for themselves (of a sort), and causing damage has an undeniable appeal to some people. But Ivan Sergeev has taken a different approach - he's become one of the good guys.
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Date: 2006-06-20
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Vivekabarathi Virus Hoax Makes a Comeback
The Vivekabarathi Virus hoax is back to do rounds once again. Security experts at MicroWorld Technologies have noticed significant traffic of this email hoax in South Asia and the Middle East last week.
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Date: 2006-06-20
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Yamanner Leads New Threat
Last week, a new worm known as "Yamanner" spread through Yahoo's e-mail system. The problem was solved in short order and did relatively little damage while it still existed. What's more troubling is how the worm spread-when users opened just the e-mail itself, not any attachments, it sprang into action-and the strong possibility that more could follow suit.
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Date: 2006-06-19
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Google Pages Used To Host Trojan Horse
The security vendor Websense sent out a warning on Friday that Google's Web page hosting service, known as Google Pages, was being used to host a Trojan horse. It is believed the discovery was made before the malware's author(s) could launch an attack.
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Date: 2006-06-19
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Ssh Forwarding Security
Ssh forwarding is powerful stuff, but using it can be confusing. For example, let's say we have a machine that our firewall will send traffic to, but we actually want to ssh to another internal machine.
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Date: 2006-06-15
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Losses Due To Cybercrime Decrease
Is cybercrime becoming a thing of the past? In short, no. Respondents to a survey by the Computer Security Institute (CSI) and the FBI reported an average of $168,000 in cybercrime losses. But that's down 18 percent from 2005, and is part of a four-year trend of lowering numbers.
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Date: 2006-06-15
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Symantec Makes $2 Billion Convertible Debt Offering
Symantec has announced a $2 billion convertible debt offering, and it will use the proceeds to buy back about $1.5 billion of common stock. Symantec said it will issue separate stock-purchase warrants. The news caused RBC Capital Markets to raise its earnings for the security company.
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Date: 2006-06-14
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People Still Not Grasping Password Security
After all these years you would think basic password security would be drilled into everyone who uses the Internet, yet time and time again I always come across people who still have not learned the basics.
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Date: 2006-06-14
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McAfee to Raise Vulnerability Awareness
McAfee announced that using its Avert Labs' research expertise and Organization for Internet Safety (OIS) guidelines, it will work closely with vendors affected by vulnerability discoveries.
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Date: 2006-06-13
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Worm Attacks Yahoo E-mail Service
The security specialist Symantec Corp. has issued a warning about a worm targeting Yahoo's e-mail service. The worm only requires that the e-mail containing it be opened - whereas most worms are located in attachments - but Symantec says the impact has been low.
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Date: 2006-06-12
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Google Listening to Your Every Move
TechCrunch reports on a research product at Google which allows the company to use your computer microphone to "listen" to the TV shows you are watching and then serve targeted internet ads.
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Date: 2006-06-09
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Windows Genuine Spyware?
As you probably know, Microsoft has been trying to cut down on piracy of its software with its Windows Genuine Advantage technology.
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Date: 2006-06-09
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AOL Releases PC Security Babysitter
AOL has released a free downloadable program that checks the status of a computer's security programs, like anti-virus, firewall, and spyware protection, to see if they are up to date. Called Active Security Monitor, the program assigns a "security score" to PCs scanned and suggests a course of action.
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Date: 2006-06-08
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IRS Staffer Loses Laptop
Fortunately, the fallout from the latest incident of someone in the federal government failing to keep a laptop in close proximity only affects 291 people.
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Date: 2006-06-08
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Is Your Data Encryption Really Secure
There are various types and methods of data encryption. Some of the most popular forms of data encryption include single file encryption, folder encryption, volume encryption, whole disk encryption, and of course email encryption.
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Date: 2006-06-08
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Google Pharmacy Email A Fake
Imagine a Google logo, the O's replaced with little blue pills. If you received an email promoting the new Google Pharmacy, delete it right away. It's an attempt to phish through your pockets in a few different ways.
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Date: 2006-06-08
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Survey Reveals Security Doubts
A new security survey from Datalink showed a disturbing number of "technology decision makers" feel vulnerable to network, host, and storage security breaches. These results come in the midst of a rash of news stories about stolen laptops, lost data tapes, and hacked customer information.
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Date: 2006-06-08
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VoIP Hacker Raises Security Concerns
A man who operated an intricate scam to hack Internet VoIP services and resell the connections made at least one major mistake; he flaunted his riches in the state/country in which he orchestrated it.
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Date: 2006-06-08
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Indiana Fights ID Theft
As more and more stories about identity theft flood the headlines, the state of Indiana has taken it upon itself to make a new law.
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Date: 2006-06-06
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CA Releases New IAM Solutions
CA announced new releases of three identity and access management (IAM) solutions: eTrust CA-ACF2 Security, eTrust CA-Top Secret Security, and eTrust Cleanup.
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Date: 2006-06-06
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Kaz/Symantec Team Up For Australian SMB Security
Symantec and Australia-based Kaz, the ICT and IP services subsidiary of Telstra, have teamed up to offer Symantec Operational Services to Australian small and medium businesses (SMBs) through Symantec Global Consulting Services.
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Date: 2006-06-06
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Microsoft Dominates Worst Tech List
PC World has put together a list of the 25 worst tech products of all time ("all time" defined as "the last twenty or so years"), and Microsoft products take a lot of spots on the list.
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Date: 2006-06-05
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Mozilla Says IE 7 Won't Beat Firefox Security
One of the chief selling points (if a free browser can have a selling point) of Mozilla Corporation's Firefox browser has been its reputation of being more secure than Internet Explorer. Preaching to a choir of open-sourcers at the Red Hat Summit, the company said it expects to maintain that advantage.
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Date: 2006-06-05
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Virus Tricks You into Buying Rogue AntiVirus!
If you get incessant alert messages on your computer screen about Viruses, Spyware, Adware, Backdoors and severe system malfunctions, appearing with a yellow triangle and an exclamation mark in it, you could be infected with a dangerous Trojan- Downloader.
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Date: 2006-06-02
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Mossberg Slaps Symantec's Wrist
Although computer users are concerned about security, they're not willing to go to too much trouble to ensure their safety. That's the conclusion reached by Walt Mossberg and the heads of Symantec and RSA Security at the Wall Street Journal's D: All Things Digital conference.
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Date: 2006-06-02
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Ernst & Young Loses Hotels.com Laptop
A theft of an Ernst & Young laptop has exposed the personal information of about 243,000 Hotels.com customers. An E&Y Texas employee, who was in charge of auditing Hotels.com accounts, left the laptop in a car.
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Date: 2006-06-02
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ASLR Joins Vista's Bag Of Tricks
Microsoft Windows Vista Beta 2 has been equipped with a security feature that should help protect the system against buffer overrun exploits. The addition of Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR), which is known more for being used in the open-source world, is part of a larger strategy to make automated attacks on Vista more difficult to execute.
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Date: 2006-06-01
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EU Takes Action Against Cybercrime, Spam
The European Union is planning to strengthen measures against hackers, cyber crime, and even spam. A plan formulated by the European Commission hopes to address the former two problems by sending out alerts about breaches of Internet security.
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Date: 2006-06-01
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Symantec To Launch Public Beta of Norton 360
Symantec's upcoming consumer PC security service, codenamed Genesis, will be renamed Norton 360 and will be available for public beta this summer. The company says the service is part of a broader next generation security vision they've dubbed Security 2.0.
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Date: 2006-06-01
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