Stories by: Cara Garretson

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    Security researcher Kaminsky pushes DNS patching 20/02/2009 08:20:00

    Dan Kaminsky, who for years was ambivalent about securing DNS, has become an ardent supporter of DNS Security Extensions.
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    Data loss start-ups sell out 08/01/2008 09:19:04

    The rapid consolidation in the anti-data leakage market in the past year is enough to make an IT manager's head spin: This segment of the security sector ballooned to include dozens of start-ups, then even more quickly dwindled down to a few independent companies as larger vendors cherry-picked smaller ones to add data leakage to their own product portfolios.
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    12 spam research projects that might make a difference 21/11/2007 10:34:12

    Those who commit cybercrime know they need to stay on the cutting edge of technology to come up with new and different ways to swindle people. Luckily, the good guys are also spending time in research labs developing ways to thwart the latest tricks employed by spammers, phishers and other criminals.
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    Antispam group targets transactions, not messages 12/11/2007 07:55:29

    A father-son team that has dedicated time and energy to fighting spam says that as of today, it has shut down more than 50,000 Web sites that use unwanted messages to lure traffic.
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    Spammers beg for money in pre-holiday blast 09/11/2007 06:49:52

    A new spam campaign has emerged that tells stories of the hard-knock life, and then asks for money.
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    Spammers latch on to political subjects 08/11/2007 08:19:18

    US Congressman Ron Paul is hot. Image spam is not.
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    Inside San Diego Supercomputing Center's green data center 06/11/2007 13:00:25

    The 80,000-square-foot building will double the size of the SDSC's facilities; besides an additional 5,000 square feet of data-center space, the expansion will house classrooms, offices, meeting rooms and a 250-seat auditorium.
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    One in six PCs could be infected with malware 05/11/2007 10:02:22

    As many as one in six PCs may have active spyware or malware infections.
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    PDF spam back with a vengeance 02/11/2007 05:34:50

    PDF spam, the summertime nuisance that flooded inboxes in early August and then quickly disappeared, is back and worse than ever.
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    Storm worm pulls Halloween hoax 01/11/2007 10:36:42

    It wouldn't be Halloween without the zombie-creating Storm malware up to some mischief.
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    Hybrid Web filtering combines appliance with hosted service 25/10/2007 08:02:37

    St. Bernard Software this week is announcing a hybrid solution for Web filtering that the company says combines the control of an appliance with the ease of use of a managed service.
 
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