EFF presses Obama on policy
November 18, 2008
Just days after his election to the presidency, Barack Obama is being lobbied by privacy advocates for stricter protections.
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AVG update deletes critical Windows file
November 18, 2008
A recent update from antivirus firm AVG has caused havoc with some users by deleting a critical file in non-English versions of Windows XP after incorrectly detecting it as a virus.
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Attacks at 40Gb/s: Arbor talks about ISP-level security
November 15, 2008
iTnews interviewed Nick Race, Australian Manager of Arbor Networks, about the size and strength of new malicious attacks, Australian vulnerability, and how inter-ISP networks provided better security than end-user software.
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Analysis: Online security war is social not technical
November 15, 2008
The biggest obstacle to eradicating, or at least minimising, e-crime is not a technical challenge but a social one, according to F-Secure researcher Mikko Hyppönen.
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Federal Reserve spam attack emerges
November 15, 2008
Security officials are warning users after the discovery of a clever new phishing scam.
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AMD employee charged for US$1bn IP theft
November 15, 2008
A former Intel worker who left for rival chipmaker AMD has been indicted for trial on accusations that he stole more than $1bn of intellectual property and took it with him.
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Email spam increases eightfold; Agent-HNY blamed
October 31, 2008
The rate of spam emails has increased eightfold between July and September, according to a Sophos report, which also reveals that the United States was the top country responsible for relaying spam worldwide.
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Teenage hacker charged for DDOS attack on Scientology
October 31, 2008
A teenager who took part in a distributed denial of service attack against the so-called church of Scientology has been charged.
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Virtual machines and the emergence of virtual threats
October 31, 2008
Server virtualisation continues to attract significant investment from organisations keen to save cost, power and space in the data centre through server consolidation.
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Data breaches caused by human error, hardware theft
October 31, 2008
Human error and hardware theft are the two main causes of data breaches, according to Symantec’s recent survey into Data Loss Prevention.
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