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To Remove the Worse You Need the Best

2007-08-01 19:25:00 by jack in adware and spyware
 
...pair of shoes. After a few minutes of gawking at the window display you move on home As you go inside your house, you noticed a flyer on your porch. The flyer is on the exact pair of shoes that you saw in the men's store. How did they know? Was it coincidence? If this all happened in the internet, then it's probably not a coincidence. Your...
 
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Adware and Spyware Such a Pain

2007-08-01 19:17:00 by jack in adware and spyware
 
...pair of shoes. After a few minutes of gawking at the window display you move on home As you go inside your house, you noticed a flyer on your porch. The flyer is on the exact pair of shoes that you saw in the men's store. How did they know? Was it coincidence? If this all happened in the internet, then it's probably not a coincidence. Your...
 
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Stolen laptops affect 337,000 Davidson County voters

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2007-12-29 11:30:26 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...pair of laptop computers containing sensitive personal information belonging to 337,000 registered Davidson County, Tennessee voters was stolen from the Davidson County Election Commission office during the Christmas break Reference URL WTVF News Channel 5 Story WKRN Channel 2 News Story Nashville Business Journal Report Credit News Channel...
 
Tags: voters, davidson county voters, davidson county, tennessee voters, information technology department, information, voters monitor, sensitive personal information, confidential information
 
 
 
 
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Storm splinters, starts phishing, say researchers

2008-01-10 00:00:00 by HASH0x895cf54 in Network World on Security
 
Part of the Storm botnet appears to have been rented out to identity thieves, who are using it to conduct traditional phishing attacks that target customers of a pair of U.K.-based banks, researchers said Wednesday
 
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Flash attack could take over your router

2008-01-15 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
Security researchers have released code showing how a pair of widely used technologies could be misused to take control of a victim's Web browsing experience
 
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Microsoft promises fix for Office 2008 installation issues

2008-01-25 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b6f380 in Network World on Security
 
A pair of installation-related problems involving the new release of Microsoft's Office 2008 won't cause damage to your data or prevent the productivity suite from running. But the issues, discovered by a user, pose potential security and administrative headaches. Microsoft is vowing fixes for both
 
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Who should do your security audits? Or, how do you organize the security department?

2008-02-07 22:25:32 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...pair of roles. Developers strive to write high-quality code, and even do some testing along the way. But because no one's perfect, all code has some mistakes; it's valuable to have other people bang hard on the code, abuse it almost, to find and squash more bugs. Often, even the best developers are embedded so deeply in their own code that...
 
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Firefox 3.0's malware blocker whacks access to popular add-on sites

2008-02-18 14:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
The anti-malware tool that debuted last week in Firefox 3.0 Beta 3 is blocking users from reaching the Web sites for a pair of popular add-ons to the open-source browser
 
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In defense of Caller-ID spoofing

2008-03-06 00:00:00 by Paul McNamara in Network World on Security
 
It's not me mounting the defense, mind you. However, I thought it worth noting that a pair of recent columns -- "Confessions of a Caller-ID spoofer" and "Caller-ID spoofing burns fire equipment company" -- generated significant reader reaction, not all of it in lockstep condemnation of the practice
 
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