Are you ready for the holidays? Is your home decorated? I know much of America is still coming down from their Thanksgiving comas, induced by a perfect storm of tryptophan,...
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Security Issues Persist at TJX
Still recovering from the largest data security breach to date, and working to resolve law suits with consumers, TJX still has security issues. They claim in their Important Customer Alert,...
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Both Hackers and Athletes Now Concentrate on Beijing Olympics
With the Beijing Olympics quickly approaching, both hackers and athletes are getting ready for the sports competition.
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Serious Vulnerability Found In PDF Files
Adobe created the PDF, or Portable Document Format, to be interoperable among various operating systems and platforms. They wanted to provide a format which could be embedded in web pages...
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Product Review: Zone Alarm Force Field
Zone Alarm has been a virtual household name in consumer computer security. The Zone Alarm firewall, especially the version available for free for personal use, has been protecting computer systems...
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RIAA Catches Pirates Using Their Own Weapons
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has an interesting method to find and catch potential pirates, turning to the same file-sharing applications that are currently used by them, The C
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Hackers Offer Free Versions of GTA IV
The popularity of the newly-released GTA IV makes new victims on the web as hackers are now looking to exploit new vulnerable computers using the popular game.
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Trend Micro Warns of Attack of Over Half a Million Web Pages
Not long after we informed you of the SQL injection threat that has been found last week loose on the web, a new similar massive attack compromises more than half a million websites.
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Yahoo Blocks Email for BT Customers
Several customers of BT, one of the world's leading providers of communications solutions and services, were faced with an email meltdown after a Yahoo security update.
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MSN Messenger Kissing Pig Virus Still on the Web
About one month ago, the folks at Panda Labs warned that a new MSN Messenger worm was spotted on the web, searching for vulnerable computers through the popular instant messaging client.
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More Than One in Five Home Computers Still Infected
A report conducted by PandaLabs a month ago revealed that approximately 1 in 5 home computers which have up-to-date security software installed were infected and according to the security company, the
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Piracy Loses Ground, Genuine Software More Attractive
Although software piracy loses ground and is declining in most countries of the world, due to the fast growing computer industry in the countries with high piracy rate, the worldwide piracy rate reach
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Asprox Botnet Compromises Web Sites
A botnet is being propagated in a worm-like fashion and infecting vulnerable web sites. Once a web site is compromised, it redirects users to download a malware package, which also...
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Four Security Bulletins From Microsoft
Microsoft released four new Security Bulletins for the month of May, bringing the total for 2008 to 29. Three of the four Security Bulletins are rated as Critical, and address...
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Spam Blasts Social Networking
According to anti-spam firm Cloudmark, as much as 30% of new social networking accounts are actually fake 'zombie' accounts created to distribute spam. While users have been warned for years...
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MySpace Proves Spamming Is Illegal, Wins $234M Lawsuit
The fact that spamming is annoying, dangerous and, besides all, illegal is well known.
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Security Experts Urge Users to Apply the Latest Windows Patches
The latest "Patch Tuesday" brought us lots of patches supposed to fix security vulnerabilities discovered in Microsoft's products, including here Microsoft Office for Windows and for Mac, Windows
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Australians to Say Goodbye to Internet Freedom
What has already happened in other countries around the world, including here China, could also happen in Australia, as the local government wants to provide a subsidy to the country's ISPs in or
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PayPal Phishing Scam Explained by Yahoo
Phishing scams occur every once in a while and users have started to get used to them; nevertheless, there are some cases when such an attack may prove to be pretty dangerous.
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Stolen Software, Cause for US Trial
A former engineer at the Palo Verde nuclear plant in Arizona faces serious charges for using a a piece of software he illegally took from the plant in Iran.
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