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    Teen gets prison term for attack on Scientology Web site 21/11/2009 07:32:00

    A 19-year old New Jersey man this week was sentenced this week to a year and a day in federal prison for hacking into the Church of Scientology's Web site in Jan. 2008.
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    FAA glitch shines spotlight on troubled telco project 20/11/2009 09:52:00

    The outage of a computer system used by airline pilots to file flight plans in the U.S will likely prompt a closer look at a US$2.4 billion telecommunications system that has grappled with numerous problems in the past.
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    Bill would restrict P2P use on US government networks 19/11/2009 07:17:00

    House lawmakers introduced a bill that would restrict the use of peer-to-peer technology on government networks in response to several embarrassing data leaks.
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    Microsoft patch tally: 6 years, 745 vulnerabilities 02/11/2009 22:06:00

    With its massive security update last month, Microsoft Corp. marked the end of the sixth year since it moved to a monthly patch schedule. An informal count of releases in Microsoft's bulletin archives shows that the company has released about 400 security bulletins since October 2003.
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    Q&A: Don't judge Microsoft security by the number of Patch Tuesday bulletins 31/10/2009 03:32:00

    Microsoft Corp. pours more money into software security than any other major vendor both because it has to and because it can. Yet for all the investments in security, the number of vulnerabilities discovered in the company's products has increased over the years, prompting questions over whether the company has reached the limits of its ability to debug software.
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    Amazon downplays report highlighting vulnerabilities in its cloud service 29/10/2009 11:32:00

    Amazon said today that it has taken steps to mitigate a security issue in its cloud computing infrastructure that was identified recently by researchers from MIT and the University of California at San Diego.
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    Microsoft wants ISO security certification for its Cloud services 24/10/2009 22:37:00

    Microsoft wants to get its suite of hosted messaging and collaboration products certified to the ISO 27001 international information security standard, part of an effort to try and assure customers about the security of its cloud computing services. It comes amid broad and continuing doubts about the ability of cloud vendors in general to properly secure their services.
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    Scientist who found water on moon arrested for espionage 21/10/2009 07:17:00

    A scientist who once worked on the Star Wars missile defense project and is credited with discovering the presence of water on the moon is being accused by federal prosecutors of attempting to sell top secret information to a foreign intelligence agency.
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    Trial to begin in economic espionage case involving China 21/10/2009 11:49:00

    A jury trial is set to begin in a somewhat rare trade-secret theft case in which federal prosecutors are trying to prove that two engineers misappropriated trade secrets from a U.S. technology company to benefit China's government.
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    Online libel case stirs up free speech debate 16/10/2009 11:42:00

    An Illinois politician's attempt to unmask the identity of an e-mail poster who allegedly made disparaging remarks about her teenage son in an online forum is stirring a debate about free speech rights on the Internet.
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    In six years of Patch Tuesdays, 400 security bulletins, 745 vulnerabilities 15/10/2009 06:26:00

    Microsoft's massive security update marked the completion of the sixth year of the company's move to a monthly patch release schedule.
 
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