Mobile connections ring alarm bells
June 6, 2008
Makers of burglar alarm security systems are turning away from landlines and using mobile telephony to pass information from the alarm panel to a central monitoring facility..
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Web site threats rocket
June 6, 2008
The threat to firms of their Web sites being hacked has risen dramatically, according to new research from web security vendor ScanSafe.
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Researchers say Microsoft's CardSpace vulnerable
June 6, 2008
A team of student researchers find a flaw in CardSpace similar to the flaw that broke its predecessor, .Net PassPort.
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U.S. Army hospital says patient information was compromised
June 6, 2008
Walter Reed Army Medical Center warns that patient data was compromised on an unsecured hospital computer.
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Exploited bug doesn't exist in latest version of Flash
June 6, 2008
Despite earlier reports, version 9.0.124.0 of Adobe Flash Player has no new bugs.
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Google fixes several site security issues
June 6, 2008
Company blocks cross-site scripting hole at Grand Central site, fixes Google.com redirect issue, and works to fix redirect issue at Doubleclick.com.
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Congress may OK 'compromise' bill to derail spying lawsuits
June 6, 2008
Permitting only a secret court to handle legal challenges against government wiretap requests to phone companies, bill offers what civil libertarians argue is “sham.”
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Opera 9.5 to include anti-malware protection
June 6, 2008
The safeguards, provided by Haute Secure, rely upon a community of dedicated users to inform the product when to block and when not.
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Hotmail users getting locked out
June 6, 2008
Some users of Microsoft’s free online e-mail client are getting locked out of their accounts, with at least one person’s account being used to make an emergency money request.
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Microsoft warns of Safari for Windows blended attacks
June 6, 2008
Redmond issues an advisory and may soon follow up with a security update–unlike Apple, which last month dismissed the Safari “carpet bombing” attack.
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