Chinese Red Cross hacker gets two years in jail
July 21, 2008
A Chinese man has been sentenced to two years in jail after hacking a Red Cross web site launched for the victims of China’s recent earthquake.
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Spammers announce World War III
July 21, 2008
Hackers are deluging web users with malware-laden spam claiming that World War III has started following a US invasion of Iran.
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Spammers tout 'nude' Angelina Jolie pix
July 21, 2008
A new wave of spam messages related to Angelina Jolie are spreading with the intention to trick users into downloading and installing malware.
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Companies ignoring unified comms security
July 21, 2008
Companies are leaving their unified communications (UC) systems wide open to hackers, newly published research claims.
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US boffins tout personal identity verification
July 21, 2008
US engineers have developed software that can be used with Windows and Linux systems to perform log-ins, digital signing and verification.
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Facing the pain of passwords
July 21, 2008
We all use passwords constantly and hate having to remember them all. Alas, they’re not going away anytime soon. Here are some tools that may help.
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Photobucket plugs hole that revealed private photos
July 21, 2008
Photobucket is latest site to fix holes that allowed strangers to view members’ private photos.
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Despite patch, today's systems still vulnerable to 2002 flaw
July 21, 2008
Researcher notes similarity (and differences) between a recent DNS patch announcement and 2002’s SNMPv1 flaw.
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Listen to the 2600 hacker conference
July 21, 2008
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Listen to the 2600 hacker conference–If you can’t attend The Last HOPE conference, you can tune in over the Internet.
AMD, Intel Centrino 2 make strange bedfellows–Advanced Micro Devices is making gains at Hewlett-Packard, even in Centrino 2 notebooks.
Comcast customers: Are your e-mails going missing?–Peter Glaskowsky reports on a surprising problem: the Internet addresses of Comcast customers are associated with spam and listed on some e-mail blacklist services.
Earnings: Microsoft and Google disappoint, while IBM soars–Earnings are up across the board, but profits are down…but not everywhere.
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Norton 2009 products open to public beta
July 21, 2008
Symantec unveils lighter and faster versions of its venerable security and antivirus products.
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