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    Man arrested for '01 Airforce hacks 12/04/2005 09:12:15

    A popular Venezuelan hacker known as "RaFa" was arrested April 2 and charged with hacking into U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) servers almost four years ago.
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    Rootkit Web sites fall to DDOS attack 12/04/2005 09:15:17

    Two prominent Web sites that specialize in remote access software known as "rootkits" have been taken offline by a large distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack. The take-down was allegedly ordered by a shadowy group of hackers and rootkit authors who took offense to criticisms of their software posted on the sites.
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    Antivirus company warns of new Symbian Trojan 08/04/2005 08:05:45

    Antivirus company F-Secure is warning mobile phone users about a new malicious software program that infects phones that use the Symbian Series 60 operating system, preventing the phones from starting.
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    Web postcards hide Trojan horse programs 06/04/2005 08:36:22

    Beware of Web postcards bearing greetings. That's the advice from The SANS Institute's Internet Storm Center (ISC), which is warning about e-mail messages that pose as Web postcards, then direct recipients to a Web site that installs a Trojan horse program.
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    DNS pharming attacks target .com domain 04/04/2005 11:11:48

    A new round of so-called "pharming" attacks is targeting the .com Internet domain, redirecting some Internet users who are looking for .com Web sites to Web pages controlled by the unknown attackers.
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    Symantec acknowledges two holes in AV products 31/03/2005 08:15:18

    Security software company Symantec acknowledged that software flaws in some of its antivirus products could allow malicious hackers to use denial of service (DOS) attacks to crash systems running the software, disrupting automatic protection features.
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    Company backs off bounty for Mac OS X virus 29/03/2005 07:51:55

    A company that offered US$25,000 for the first virus that automatically spreads among Apple Computer computers running the OS X operating system cancelled the virus writing contest and retracted the offer of cash, citing concerns about legal liability.
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    ISPs join to 'fingerprint' Internet attacks 29/03/2005 08:02:23

    Leading global telecommunications companies, ISPs (Internet service providers) and network operators will begin sharing information on Internet attacks as members of a new group called the "Fingerprint Sharing Alliance," according to a published statement from the new group.
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    BMC buys OpenNetwork for $18 million 24/03/2005 08:51:00

    Enterprise management software company BMC Software is continuing its identity-management buying spree, announcing that it is buying OpenNetwork Technologies, a maker of Web access management and single sign-on technology, for US$18 million in cash.
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    Symantec: spam, phishing grow, botnets shrink in '04 22/03/2005 09:22:38

    A new report released by security company Symantec found that incidents of online identity theft scams, also known as "phishing attacks," skyrocketed in the second half of 2004, as did spam and new software vulnerabilities. But other Internet blights, such as zombie networks of compromised computers, or "bots," actually declined.
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    Symantec: spam, phishing grow, botnets shrink in '04 21/03/2005 12:06:19

    A new report released by security company Symantec found incidents of online identity theft scams, also known as "phishing attacks", skyrocketed in the second half of 2004, as did spam and new software vulnerabilities. But other Internet blights, such as zombie networks of compromised computers, or "bots", actually declined.
 
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