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CNN's legal security blunder

New P2P video streaming service would have you give up on firewall and antivirus

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Microsoft Offers Ransom for E-threat Authors

The WWW - is it World Wide Web or Wild Wild West?

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Sudo considered harmful

Buggy old bad idea

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Microsoft Enables Autorun Disabling

Gaping Security Hole Patched, Somewhat

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Adobe PDF Javascript Vuln Patched

One day early, not a day too soon

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Insider Indicted For SCADA Tampering

A man stands indicted of a single count of having "caused damage by impairing the integrity and availability of data", to the tune of "thousands of dollars".

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Conficker April Surprise

The announced April 1st Conficker update doom and gloom has failed to materialize. You can bet your bottom dollar somewhere in the world a virus writer is rolling on the floor laughing. That's not to...

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Boot-time Malware Comeback

Security researchers Nitin Kumar and Vipin Kumar announced and demoed at HITB Dubai 2009 the second version of Vbootkit, a boot-time rootkit that is designed to crack open Windows 7.

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Vbootkit 2.0 Given Open Source Status

Security researchers Nitin and Vipin Kumar have released the code for their recently-announced boot-time rootkit - and it's a pretty interesting piece of work.

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Does Cloud Computing Have a Silver Lining?

Redundancy Woes for Google

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Obama Ushers In the Age of Cyberwarfare

The 44th President of the United states spoke to the press on May 29, addressing many issues to do with the nation's "cyber-infrastructure".

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Spy App Comes to the iPhone

Got a jailbroken iPhone? You really, truly should pin-lock it.

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Bad Apples

Apple Safari Flaw Found, Fixed Six Months Later

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Whopper Tuesday

Microsoft Releases Biggest Security Patch Yet

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WordPress admin accounts at risk, no fix available

A vulnerability in the current 2.8.3 release of the popular WordPress blogging software.

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SMB 2.0 Flaw Triggers BSOD

Vista, Windows 7 Vulnerability Unpatched Yet

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SMB Vuln Headaches Continue

Exploit Code for Unpatched Windows Flaw Released

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Romania's Presidential Campaign Marred By Spam Runs

A new low has been reached in what is already being called "the dirtiest electoral campaign in Romania's post-revolutionary period".

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World of Warcraft Accounts at Risk From Trojaned Wowmatrix

Virus Used to Bypass Battle.net Authenticator

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Social Web Security, Re-invented

What started as a research project on in-the-cloud security for browsers is now seeing the light of day as the TrafficLight Beta from BitDefender.

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