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Change in Focus
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Twitter attacker had proper credentials
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PhotoDNA scans images for child abuse
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Conficker data highlights infected networks
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Google offers bounty on browser bugs
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Cyberattacks from U.S. "greatest concern"
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Microsoft patches as fraudsters target IE flaw
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Attack on IE 0-day refined by researchers
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Monster botnet held 800,000 people's details
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Google: 'no timetable' on China talks
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Latvian hacker tweets hard on banking whistle
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MS uses court order to take out Waledac botnet
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Enterprise Intrusion Analysis, Part One
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Responding to a Brute Force SSH Attack
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Data Recovery on Linux and <i>ext3</i>
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eweek Security News:
[CaRP] XML error: mismatched tag at line 11
SANs Security News:
Microsoft re-release of KB973811 - attacks on Extended Protection for Authentication
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Yesterday Microsoft re-released KB973811 ==http://www.microsoft ...(more)...
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Theres been a lot of discussion about the recent stories on parsing firewall logs - Mar ...(more)...
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Several readers have pointed us towards this advisory. This Microsoft advisory outlines a vuln ...(more)...
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Overview of theMarch 2010 MicrosoftPatchesand their status.
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A new version of the Samurai WTF (Web Testing Framework) distribution, version 0.8, has been r ...(more)...
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Panda Security has a post up on one of their employees buying a brand new Android phone from Vodafon ...(more)...
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We received several emails today about the US-CERTanalysis of Trojan horse software found in a ...(more)...
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An ISCreader, thanks Paul, notified us about a new SEO(Search Engine Optimization) ...(more)...
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The Register Security News
Your pet's name is Poochie? You're pwned
Guessing the answer to common password reset questions is far easier than previously thought, according to a new study by computer science researchers.?
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'Will be around for a long time'
Retro gaming fans are being targeted in a new con designed to infect computers with a Trojan linked to scareware scams.?
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Now go away
PayPal has finally made good on its pledge to restore Cryptome's account many hours after the firm's head of global communications told Register readers it had already done so.?
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One quarter of C&C channels vanish
At least a quarter of the command and control servers linked to Zeus-related botnets have suddenly gone quiet, continuing a recent trend of takedowns hitting some of the world's most nefarious cyber operations.?Offloading malware protection to the cloud
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Seven weeks and counting
Google CEO Eric Schmidt has reiterated that the company is currently in negotiations with the Chinese government over its future in the country - despite the Chinese government's claims to the contrary - and he expects some sort of development "soon".?Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
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Account still restricted
"PayPal is a fucking liar, a cheat and a thug," says Cryptome operator John Young. The eBay-owned payment service closed the Cryptome account last week, with over $5,000 of donations intended for Young in limbo.?
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Online banking losses up though
A rise in online banking fraud losses took some of the shine off the overall fall in debit and credit fraud in the UK last year.?
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Every twt.tl bit helps
Twitter has tightened up security procedures in order to curtail phishing attacks against users of the micro-blogging service, which have become rampant over recent weeks.?
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Kiss and don't tell
Celebrity publicist Max Clifford has agreed to accept a £1m plus payoff in exchange for dropping phone hacking allegations against the News of the World.?
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Feds cuff JihadJane
A suburban Pennsylvania woman who went by the online alias JihadJane used the internet to recruit Islamic terrorists and to plot the assassination of a Swedish cartoonist who depicted the Prophet Mohammed, according to a federal indictment unsealed Tuesday.?
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Agrees to safeguard customer data
An Arizona company that sells services designed to prevent identity theft has agreed to pay $12m to settle charges it oversold their effectiveness and didn't adequately protect sensitive customer data.?
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The new Microsoft
Adobe's ubiquitous Reader application has replaced Microsoft Word as the program that's most often targeted in malware campaigns, according to figures compiled by F-Secure.?
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IE 6 and 7 users targeted
Online thugs are exploiting a security bug in earlier versions of Internet Explorer that allows them to remotely execute malicious code, Microsoft warned on Tuesday.?What is your recession sales strategy?
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Lancaster Gate-gate
Reported attempts to sell recordings of conversations between England squad players and coaches have sparked a security breach investigation at the FA.?
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WeatherFist shows phone vulnerability, devs claim
Security researchers fooled nearly 8,000 iPhone and Android users into joining a mobile smartphone "botnet" under the guise of installing an apparently innocuous weather app.?
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CERT Security News:
Understanding Your Computer: Web Browsers
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Understanding Your Computer: Operating Systems
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Protecting Portable Devices: Data Security
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Understanding Encryption
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Understanding Digital Signatures
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Protecting Portable Devices: Physical Security
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Recognizing and Avoiding Spyware
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Understanding Denial-of-Service Attacks
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Avoiding Social Engineering and Phishing Attacks
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Protecting Your Privacy
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