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Article | 3/11/2008 Crooks can make $5M a year shilling fake security software
Criminals can make as much as US$5 million a year by planting nearly-worthless security software on PCs, then badgering users with so many bogus malwa...
Article | 27/10/2008 New worm feeds on latest Microsoft bug
One day after Microsoft issued a rare emergency Windows security patch, the bad guys have a few new ways to take advantage of the bug.
Article | 23/10/2008 Student gets jail for crashing university servers
A 22-year-old University of Pennsylvania student has been sentenced to three months in prison and probation time, following a worldwide botnet compute...
Article | 20/10/2008 Experts: Georgian cyberattacks suggest Russian involvement
The hackers who launched cyberattacks against the former Soviet republic of Georgia two months ago probably had links to the Russian government, even ...
Article | 17/10/2008 Woman is first to plead guilty in notorious spam case
A woman accused of helping spam kingpin Alan Ralsky send out tens of millions of unwanted e-mail messages each day has pleaded guilty to spam charges.
Article | 10/10/2008 Microsoft promises huge patch day next week
Microsoft Thursday said it will issue 11 security updates next week -- the same number it shipped in August when pushed out the most patches in 18 mon...
Article | 10/10/2008 11 Microsoft security updates due next week
Next week will be a busy one for system administrators as Microsoft is planning to ship 11 security updates -- four of them rated critical -- for its ...
Article | 9/10/2008 Symantec to buy e-mail security vendor MessageLabs
Symantec will pay US$695 million for MessageLabs, a security vendor that offers a hosted spam and Web traffic filtering service.
Article | 8/10/2008 Criminals using Google Trends to spread malware
Internet criminals are using Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tactics to help spread malicious software, according to experts from Marshal's TRACE tea...
Article | 8/10/2008 US court orders spammers to pay $236M to ISP
A federal judge has ordered an Arizona couple to pay more than US$236 million for sending millions of spam messages to a small Iowa ISP (Internet serv...
Article | 29/09/2008 New industry group takes aim at 'net pollution,' piracy
A group of technology and entertainment heavyweights is undertaking a public relations campaign to dissuade consumers from illegal file sharing, somet...
Article | 29/09/2008 Trojan can grab extra personal banking data
A Trojan horse program now available to a growing number of fraudsters can add data entry fields to legitimate online banking sites and entice consume...
Article | 25/09/2008 Vic police nab third player in national piracy syndicate
Victorian Police have raided the home of a 62 year old man believed to be a prominent member of a national piracy syndicate.
Article | 23/09/2008 Adobe slates patch for Flash clipboard poisoning attacks
Adobe Systems last week said it will soon quash a bug in Flash that has been used for more than a month by attackers to poison Mac and Windows users' ...
Article | 23/09/2008 Apple's patch process a mess, say researchers
Apple's patching process proves that the company isn't serious about moving Macs into the enterprise, security researchers said Monday.
Article | 22/09/2008 Timberland pays out to settle text spam lawsuit
Timberland has agreed to reimburse Americans who received unauthorized text messages advertising its products in one of the first nationwide settlemen...
Article | 22/09/2008 Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail all vulnerable to password reset hack
Yahoo Mail isn't the only Web-based mail service that could be duped into giving up someone else's account password, the tactic that some have argued ...
Article | 19/09/2008 EFF files surveillance lawsuit against NSA, Bush, Cheney
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a lawsuit against the US National Security Agency (NSA), US President George Bush, Vice President D...
Article | 19/09/2008 EFF, Public Knowledge sue US gov't over secret IP pact
Two digital rights advocacy groups have filed a lawsuit against the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) in an attempt to get the office to tu...
Article | 18/09/2008 Hackers claim to break into Palin's Yahoo Mail account
A group of hackers that hit the Church of Scientology's site earlier this year have apparently cracked the Yahoo Mail account belonging to Sarah Palin...

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