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According to hundreds of reports posted in the past 48 hours on Russian forums and blogs, there's a new computer worm currently spreading and infecting users on ICQ.

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Talent search is on for cyber security students
« Reply #231 on: July 28, 2009, 02:03:12 AM »
Talent search is on for cyber security students
28 July 2009, 1:52 am



The U.S. government on Monday launched a national talent search for high school and college students interested in working in cyber security.

With the U.S. Cyber Challenge the goal is to find 10,000 young Americans to be "cyber guardians and cyber warriors," according to a statement from ...

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Credit card data of nearly 600,000 exposed in Network Solutions breach
« Reply #230 on: July 28, 2009, 02:03:10 AM »
Credit card data of nearly 600,000 exposed in Network Solutions breach
28 July 2009, 1:02 am



(Credit: Network Solutions)

Network Solutions is investigating a breach on its servers that may have led to the theft of credit card data of 573,928 people who made purchases on Web sites hosted by the company.

Networks Solutions notified its 4,343 of its nearly 10,000 e-commerce merchant ...

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AVG temporarily blocked iTunes, labeling it malware
« Reply #229 on: July 28, 2009, 02:03:08 AM »
AVG temporarily blocked iTunes, labeling it malware
27 July 2009, 11:55 pm

 

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AVG's free antivirus product temporarily blocked users from getting to iTunes late last week, detecting it as a Trojan, the company said on Monday.

For about five hours on Friday starting around 4 p.m. PDT, AVG users couldn't access iTunes because of the false alarm....

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Microsoft says security programs are paying off
« Reply #228 on: July 28, 2009, 12:00:12 AM »
Microsoft says security programs are paying off
27 July 2009, 10:17 pm



One year after launching three security programs designed to improve security industry-wide, Microsoft is finding that more security patches are beating exploits out the door.

Meanwhile, the Microsoft Security Response Center said that of the 50 security bulletins it published from October 2008 to June 2009, patches were released in ...

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From iPhones to smart grids at Black Hat, Defcon
« Reply #227 on: July 27, 2009, 04:00:08 PM »
From iPhones to smart grids at Black Hat, Defcon
27 July 2009, 1:00 pm



My favorite security show each year is one at which there are no sales pitches, the speakers favor black T-shirts and dyed hair over suits and ties, and the talks tend to be controversial enough to prompt legal threats and even arrests.

I'm talking about Defcon, which starts Thursday ...

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HP researchers develop browser-based darknet
« Reply #226 on: July 26, 2009, 02:00:09 AM »
HP researchers develop browser-based darknet
26 July 2009, 12:58 am



Two researchers for Hewlett-Packard have created a browser-based darknet, an idea that could make it easier for businesses to keep eavesdroppers from uncovering confidential information.

Darknets are encrypted peer-to-peer networks normally used to communicate files between closed groups of people. Most darknets require a certain level of technological literacy to ...



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Microsoft to fix critical hole in IE
« Reply #225 on: July 25, 2009, 03:00:15 AM »
Microsoft to fix critical hole in IE
25 July 2009, 2:11 am



In a rare move, Microsoft on Friday said it would be releasing security updates on Tuesday--outside of its monthly patch cycle--for a critical vulnerability in Internet Explorer and a moderate vulnerability in Visual Studio.

The two security bulletins will address one overall issue and are being released separately "to provide ...

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Expert: iPhone 3GS crypto is easily crackable
« Reply #224 on: July 24, 2009, 10:00:20 PM »
Expert: iPhone 3GS crypto is easily crackable
24 July 2009, 9:18 pm



The encryption functionality of the iPhone 3GS is so easy to crack that it is essentially "broken" as far as protecting sensitive personal data like credit card and social security numbers, according to a forensics expert and iPhone developer.

"I don't think any of us [developers] have ever seen ...

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Facebook closes API loophole that let people see strangers' photos
« Reply #223 on: July 24, 2009, 10:00:20 PM »
Facebook closes API loophole that let people see strangers' photos
24 July 2009, 7:05 pm



Facebook has changed its application-programming interface to close a loophole developers were using to write applications based on access to photo albums set to be viewable by everyone.

The move has angered some developers who built applications that offer the ability to view photos of people the user is not ...

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Facebook closes API loophole that let people easily see strangers' photos
« Reply #222 on: July 24, 2009, 08:00:10 PM »
Facebook closes API loophole that let people easily see strangers' photos
24 July 2009, 7:05 pm



Facebook has changed its application programming interface to close a loophole developers were using to write applications based on access to photo albums that were set to be viewable by everyone.

The move has angered some developers who built applications that offer the ability to see photos of people the ...

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Legal advocates ask for privacy protections in Google Books
« Reply #221 on: July 24, 2009, 02:00:41 AM »
Legal advocates ask for privacy protections in Google Books
24 July 2009, 12:48 am



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Google should promise to protect the privacy of consumers with its Book Search service, the ACLU, Electronic Frontier Foundation and Samuelson Law Technology & Public Policy Clinic at UC Berkeley Law said in a letter to the search giant on Thursday.

"Under its current design, Google Book Search keeps ...

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Adobe to fix critical Flash hole next week
« Reply #220 on: July 23, 2009, 11:01:28 PM »
Adobe to fix critical Flash hole next week
23 July 2009, 9:41 pm



Adobe said Thursday that it will issue fixes next week for a critical hole in Flash that is being exploited in attacks against Adobe Reader version 9 on Windows.

The vulnerability exists in current versions of Flash Player for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux and the authplay.dll component that ships ...

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Researchers to offer tool for breaking into Oracle databases
« Reply #219 on: July 23, 2009, 11:01:25 PM »
Researchers to offer tool for breaking into Oracle databases
23 July 2009, 9:04 pm

During their presentation at the Black Hat and Defcon hacker conferences next week in Las Vegas, security experts will release a tool that can be used to break into Oracle databases.

Chris Gates and Mario Ceballos will present Oracle Pentesting Methodology and give out "all the tools to break the '...

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Gmail offers auto-unsubscribe feature for newsletters
« Reply #218 on: July 23, 2009, 02:00:16 AM »
Gmail offers auto-unsubscribe feature for newsletters
23 July 2009, 12:42 am



Ever sign up for a newsletter and then regret it later and feel too lazy to go back to the source and unsubscribe? Well, instead of just marking the messages as spam and hoping the problem goes away you, can use a new Gmail feature to solve the problem.

Google ...

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Adobe investigating zero-day bug in Flash
« Reply #217 on: July 23, 2009, 02:00:13 AM »
Adobe investigating zero-day bug in Flash
23 July 2009, 12:32 am



Researchers on Wednesday said they have uncovered attacks in the wild in which malicious Acrobat PDF files are exploiting a vulnerability in Flash and dropping a Trojan onto computers.

The situation could affect tons of users since Flash exists in all popular browsers, is available in PDF files, and is ...

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