eBay Auction Turns Into Highway Robbery
Meeting a seller face-to-face is a great way to avoid shipping charges on an online purchase. Cash payments can also preempt online arrangements - sellers would rather have your money, now, than someone else's money at some point in the future. Of course, some sellers prefer to take your money and keep the goods, which is what one British man discovered.
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Date: 2006-08-31
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You Don't Know Where That Girl's Been
Vicky Willington, a newly arrived college student, is looking to hook up while in Australia, and is marketing herself via email. A word to the gullible, Internet romance doesn't work that way, and Vicky has a much different Trojan in mind.
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Date: 2006-08-30
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New Zombie King Gets 3 Years
The latest "zombie king," or botnet hacker succeeding the jailed zombie king before him, was sentenced to three years in prison by a US District judge in California.
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Date: 2006-08-30
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DRM Removal Tool Made Available
Someone has figured out how to "remove Microsoft's DRM from individualized media files," and the tool that does it has been made available on a public forum. Called FairUse4WM, "this program is ONLY designed and intended to enable fair-use rights to PURCHASED media," but there is a considerable potential for abuse.
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Date: 2006-08-29
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AOL 9.0 Labeled As Badware
You'd think AOL'd be doing everything in its power to ensure its reputation doesn't take any more damage. If you had thought that, you were wrong. An investigation into the company's latest free software offering, AOL 9.0, has it labeled as "badware" for a laundry list of anti-user behavior.
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Date: 2006-08-29
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iPod Email Is Trojan Horse
Security company Sophos sent out the warning this morning of a Trojan virus accompanying email spam claiming to have charged recipients' accounts for an iPod.
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Date: 2006-08-29
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Students Expose Themselves On Education Site
During what it called a routine software upgrade, the U.S. Department of Education said a glitch may have exposed the personal information of some 21,000 students looking to make payments on their student loans.
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Date: 2006-08-29
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CIA's In-Q-Tel Spies New CEO
Nanotechnology and longer-lived batteries will be at the top of Christopher Darby's list of priorities once he assumes the helm at In-Q-Tel, the Central Intelligence Agency's non-profit venture capital arm.
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Date: 2006-08-29
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College Students ID Theft Targets
The National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC) is warning college students that credit card companies aren't the only ones looking to take advantage of post-adolescent ignorance and irresponsibility. They should also be on the look out for identity thieves on campus.
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Date: 2006-08-28
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Pirate Gets Six Years; DOJ Gets His Stuff
A software pirate received one of the longest sentences ever imposed for piracy in the United States, and got community service to boot. Of course, the only thing the Department of Justice hates more than theft, is flaunting your score.
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Date: 2006-08-28
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Click-To-Call Gets A Wake Up Call
The usefulness of Skype as a potentially interoperable partner to Google Talk could be hampered by adoption of anti-Skype software by telecoms, ISPs, and corporate networks.
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Date: 2006-08-28
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Contact Info Sent Out In Verizon Slipup
The contact information of about 5,000 Verizon Wireless customers was recently leaked. Except that "leaked" is too passive a word - the data was actually e-mailed to roughly 1,800 individuals. This appears to have been a mistake, however, and not the result of a malicious act.
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Date: 2006-08-28
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Symantec, Microsoft Prepare For War
Symantec and Microsoft are gearing up for a major court battle. Unfortunately, we're not going to be privy to most of the details - they won't become a part of the public record. Tracing the number of suits and countersuits between the two companies creates an interesting picture of their dispute, however.
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Date: 2006-08-25
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UK Teen Gets Grounded For Spamming
A 19-year-old revenge spammer was sent to his room for two whole months by a British court this week. David Lennon will be monitored via an electronic monitoring device while under curfew, or risk a stiffer sentence - like taking his Xbox and TV away.
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Date: 2006-08-25
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Reporting Identity Theft
Have you been a victim of identity theft... Do you think that your identity is in jeopardy, and that somebody has taken it upon themselves to use your personal information as their own...
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Date: 2006-08-25
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Sophos Releases Free Anti-Rootkit Tool
Sophos announced this week the availability of free downloadable rootkit detection and removal software. The program also warns if removal of certain rootkits will negatively impact the infected PC. The offering is intended for use on Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 operating systems.
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Date: 2006-08-25
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Student Loans Given, Personal Data Lost
College students generally need all the financial help they can get. As such, some of them apply for federal aid. Unfortunately, a federal site exposed the personal information of many borrowers, which, if exploited, could greatly increase their troubles. No one has reported any incidents of identity theft yet, however.
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Date: 2006-08-25
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How Phone Verification Fights Identity Theft
Just like anything on Earth modern society has some kind of balance. So on one hand we have a progressive electronic community and on the other hand we have army of internet criminals whose both work and fun consists of so called identity theft.
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Date: 2006-08-24
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Kevin Mitnick's Website hacked!!!
Famed hacker Kevin Mitnick was himself the target of hackers over the weekend, when the computer hosting Mitnick's Web site was broken into and his front page replaced with a vulgar message.
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Date: 2006-08-23
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Computer Kidnappers Target Your Files
Computer users have been inundated with warnings about viruses for years. Those dastardly, scheming bits of code that covertly enter a PC, and then perform the most nefarious of tasks - up to and including infecting the computers of all the people in the resident address book.
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Date: 2006-08-23
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Worm Spreads in China via New Vulnerability in Windows
It's become real. The much feared mass-level attack of the Backdoor-Worm Win32.IRCBot.st is underway in China, affecting thousands using Shanghai Telecom's broadband services since the worm's outbreak on Tuesday evening, inform Security Experts at MicroWorld Technologies.
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Date: 2006-08-22
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Mitnick Sites Hit By Hackers
Kevin Mitnick, the well-known hacker-turned-security-consultant, was hit by an instance of cybercrime over the weekend when his own sites were defaced. Vandals (based in Pakistan, according to several sources) left a message that proclaimed "ZMOG!! THE MITNICK GOTZ OWNED!!" along with a few things that seem better left unrepeated.
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Date: 2006-08-22
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Public Internet Use Fraught With Danger?
Be careful about using the Internet in public places - that's the main point of a new article outlining the potential dangers of this common practice. Whether a person is taking advantage of a wireless connection on their own computer, or sitting at a terminal owned by a library or hotel, there are a number of risks of which they should be aware.
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Date: 2006-08-22
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Cleversafe Offers Storage Solution
Chris Gladwin's last venture allowed a lot of people to get a lot of music - he was the founder, president, and CEO of MusicNow. After selling MusicNow to Circuit City, Gladwin created a system that helped him protect his music and other data files. That system, called Cleversafe, is widely available.
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Date: 2006-08-21
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Vista's Implications For Open Source
Bill Thompson, a respected technology commentator, voiced some of his thoughts about Vista's security measures earlier today. He believes this Microsoft product could be something very important - "the point at which the ongoing argument between two very different models of how software should be developed and maintained is finally resolved."
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Date: 2006-08-21
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AOL Axes Three Over Search Data Fiasco
There are some twenty-million search queries floating around on the Internet, generated by 658,000 users and never meant for broad distribution; the ill-advised release of that data forced AOL to remove three people from the company.
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Date: 2006-08-21
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Vista Beta Gets Patched
Microsoft hasn't even released Vista yet, but it's already patching it. "Fixes" have been issued for the beta version, anyway. Depending on one's point of view, that could be a good thing or a bad sign - great customer service, or a really shaky start for the operating system.
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Date: 2006-08-18
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MacBook Hack May Be Irrelevant
At the Black Hat conference, researchers took over a MacBook by exploiting a flaw in the machine's wireless software driver. Apple fans everywhere gasped in horror. Now, Apple has stepped forward to say, in essence, "it's not our problem." And it looks like the company is right.
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Date: 2006-08-18
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Microsoft Patch Gets A Patch
The MS06-040 security bulletin proved to be such a critical threat that the Department of Homeland Security urged Windows users to implement the patch, but it now appears the patch itself had some issues as well.
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Date: 2006-08-18
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An Effort To Eradicate Card-Not-Present Fraud
APACS, a banking industry entity, wants to solve card-not-present fraud. The UK payments association is in the early stages of planning a solution - it still hasn't settled on one (or more than one) approach - but an effort is underway. Gridsure, a personal authentication system, is one product up for consideration.
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Date: 2006-08-17
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Software Providers Annoy Bug Hunters
Bug hunters appear to be reconsidering the informal pact they've struck with software companies. Most of these unpaid researchers have been willing to quietly inform the manufacturers of any problems they discover. Now, some of them may be getting frustrated with the lack of response that can follow.
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Date: 2006-08-17
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The VPN That Wouldn't
Some time ago one of my clients said he needed to work from home now and then. As we were already using a Multitech RouteFinder, I just added a PPTP vpn user for him.
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Date: 2006-08-17
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The “Consumer Guide For Online Security”
Robert Tyack wants to help you shop online safely, and as the owner of MyTimeShopping.com, he's in a position to know the topic well. Tyack compiled a list of "five ways Web consumers can keep their personal information secure while shopping freely on the Internet."
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Date: 2006-08-16
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Banking Details Sold In Nigeria
Nigeria is not a pleasant place in the minds of security-conscious computer owners (as the country relates to that particular issue, anyway). First it acted as home to many phishing attempts and spam e-mails. Now information about thousands of British bank accounts is being sold in that nation.
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Date: 2006-08-15
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OpenOffice May Have Six Flaws
A report from the French Ministry of Defense claimed to identify six security flaws in OpenOffice.org software. ZDNet covered this news; now "The OpenOffice.org Team" has posted a slightly snippy statement in reply.
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Date: 2006-08-14
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Forno On Failing Security
In the opinion of one security consultant, Internet security is a serious problem. Perhaps even more troubling, he argues, is the way in which the situation is deteriorating. This trend is driven by a large number of factors.
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Date: 2006-08-14
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EFF Calls For AOL Investigation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate AOL over its ill-considered release of search data from over 650,000 users.
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Date: 2006-08-14
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IBM Staffer Crushes Blue Pill
The potential for an undetectable piece of malware to invisibly take over a PC raised a lot of eyebrows on the Internet and at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas; the threat of the Blue Pill virtualization method may be less than it seems.
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Date: 2006-08-11
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Parents Take Responsibility For Kid Safety Online
The vast majority of parents polled believe responsibility for ensuring kids' Internet safety rests with themselves and schools, but not the government. The poll, commissioned by Cable in the Classroom and conducted by Harris Interactive, was released at the Back-to-School Media Briefing held at the New York City Public Library.
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Date: 2006-08-11
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BlackBerry Hack Attack Scheduled For Next Week
Secure Computing Corporation issued a warning that organizations that have installed their BlackBerry server behind their gateway security devices could be subject to a hacking attack when security researcher Jesse D'Aguanno is scheduled to release the code for his BlackBerry hack next week.
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Date: 2006-08-11
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5 Steps To Ensuring Your Website Is Secure
Anyone who is doing business over the internet needs to have secure web hosting. There are many security threats, and anytime you´re dealing with customer data you need to be sure it´s safe from prying eyes. This is especially true if you´re using a shared host, where multiple websites are hosted on a single server.
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Date: 2006-08-10
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Wireless Network Security for Home Users
If you use a wireless network, chances are good it is not secure. If you don't make some important configuration changes on your wireless router after installing it, your wireless network is wide open to hackers, curious neighbors and people who would rather use your broadband internet service instead of buying their own.
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Date: 2006-08-09
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Yes, Your Search History Identifies You
The New York Times writes about Thelma Arnold, a 62-year-old Georgia widow who was identified, despite a random anonymizing number, within AOL's accidentally released search history research records.
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Date: 2006-08-09
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DHS: Patch Windows Now
The importance of one Microsoft fix is so critical that the Department of Homeland Security is advising Windows users to apply it as soon as possible.
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Date: 2006-08-09
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Vista Beta Vulnerable To Blue Pill
The virtualization technique used by researcher Joanna Rutkowska can invisibly reside on an operating system, and at the Black Hat conference she demonstrated its potency.
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Date: 2006-08-08
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AOL Offers Free Anti-Virus Download
Amid the drama associated with AOL's accidentally-intentional release of hundreds of thousands of users' search histories, the nearly simultaneous release of the company's free anti-virus offering may have been overlooked.
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Date: 2006-08-08
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eBay Scammers Up The Ante
I am surprised that there are so many new scams on eBay these days. It seems that everyday I get at least one or two new invitations to fork over my userid, password or credit card info.
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Date: 2006-08-08
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Netscape Responds To Hacker's Claims
The hacker that cracked Netscape's cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability and used it to deface the company's answer to Digg.com maintains that he tried incessantly to contact Netscape about the problem to warn them before hand. Netscape thinks he didn't try hard enough.
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Date: 2006-08-07
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Google Warning Users About Badware Links
Users who like to use Google to find things like cracks or license key generators are now receiving the online equivalent of a finger wagged in the face, as Google has started to warn people who click on certain search result links that the destination may be dangerous.
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Date: 2006-08-04
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IT Manager Concerns At Black Hat
Security firm Symantec, via Applied Research-West quizzed attendees of the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, and 400 respondents revealed their concerns about computer security.
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Date: 2006-08-04
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Malware Evolution: MacOS X Vulnerabilities 2005 - 2006
This article looks at vulnerabilities detected in MacOS X in the first half of 2006. It compares these vulnerabilities to those detected in the first half of 2005, providing an overview of the evolution of threats targeting this increasingly popular platform.
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Date: 2006-08-04
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U.S. Agrees To Int'l Cybercrime Treaty
The United States Senate approved the Council of Europe's Convention on Cybercrime on Thursday. "This treaty provides important tools in the battles against terrorism, attacks on computer networks and the sexual exploitation of children over the Internet, by strengthening U.S. cooperation with foreign countries in obtaining electronic evidence," according to a statement from Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
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Date: 2006-08-04
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Experts Give Warnings About JavaScript, AJAX
"Beware Web worms and viruses" - that's the message from several different security researchers at the Black Hat conference. The use of JavaScript and AJAX technology to create these was one of the main focuses. Apparently this threat is of the "here and now" variety.
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Date: 2006-08-04
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Cisco PIX Could Be Picked Open
The Cisco PIX Firewall has a vulnerability the could be blown open to allow attackers into a corporate network, but details of the flaw were not disclosed by the security researcher who discussed it during a Black Hat session on VoIP security.
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Date: 2006-08-04
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Symantec Hobbles Church Of England
Symantec stepped on some holy toes recently when Norton Antivirus "incorrectly identified part of Visual Liturgy," a program used by the Church of England, "as a piece of malware." Users were advised to delete a particular file, and this action effectively killed the software. Whoops.
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Date: 2006-08-03
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E-Passports Susceptible To Cloning
The new e-passports, which contain RFID chips, were said to be "brilliant" and "ingenious." (Admittedly, I'm paraphrasing.) Most importantly, e-passports were said to be secure. Now, before they've even been properly distributed, they've been cloned.
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Date: 2006-08-03
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Vista Gets Dropped Into A Black Hat
In the "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" department, Microsoft has taken Vista to the Black Hat security conference. About 3,000 people will get the opportunity to take a shot at Microsoft's oft-delayed baby. The lessons from this could really improve the product - assuming it survives, of course.
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Date: 2006-08-03
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RSS Worries – Black Hat Asks What If?
RSS feeds provide a site publisher with the mechanism to quickly deliver content to an opt-in audience; if the feed can be compromised, an attacker can send exploit code to every subscriber.
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Date: 2006-08-03
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Spammers Embrace Classic Literature
I've seen spam messages with dangerous attachments, spam that tried to sell Viagra, and spam that tried to convince me to send money to Nigeria. Now I've received spam that seems to exist for the sole purpose of spreading random quotes from classic pieces of literature. Apparently this is a growing phenomenon.
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Date: 2006-08-02
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An Online Security Fix For Banks: A Credit Card
U.S. banks have to meet federal guidelines regarding online security, and they have to do it by December 31, 2006. A number of banks seem wholly unprepared. Innovative Card Technologies believes its product - a password-generating chip inside a credit card - is the solution.
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Date: 2006-08-02
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McAfee SecurityCenter Update Fixes Flaw
McAfee has released SecurityCenter 7.0, which should fix a vulnerability found in some previous version of its SecurityCenter software. "This attack requires the end user to perform certain actions in order to be exploited," according to the security company.
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Date: 2006-08-01
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McAfee Releases New Line Of Protection Suites
McAfee released five new security products today, with four of them each offering a different level of protection. This could be a brilliant move, if people feel the need to "max out" and buy the most expensive suite. It might be less successful if everyone tries to skimp. The fifth product is an application for wireless security.
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Date: 2006-08-01
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