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A flood of phishing sites and how to avoid them

5 hours 46 min ago
Practical advice on recognizing the phishing and malware attacks that exploit brand names to rob you of your money.

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Microsoft to fix 13 holes in Windows, IIS, and Office

Thu, 09/09/2010 - 3:15pm
Four critical bulletins and five important bulletins coming on Patch Tuesday.

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Cheerleaders Gone Wild clickjacking tempts Facebook users

Thu, 09/09/2010 - 12:35pm
Clickjacking attack hid behind content warning and antispam mechanism before posting your prurient interests to all of your friends.

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Security firm: Zero-day Adobe exploit in the wild

Thu, 09/09/2010 - 10:10am
Trend Micro says that its spotted a zero-day Reader and Acrobat exploit on the Web, identifying the malware by name.

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Microsoft legal punch may change botnet battles forever

Thu, 09/09/2010 - 6:00am
The software giant is on the verge of getting a court to grant it ownership over domains used in the Waledac spam botnet.

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Adobe warns of zero-day hole in Reader, Acrobat

Wed, 09/08/2010 - 12:34pm
Critical vulnerability could allow an attacker to take control of a computer, company says, and no patch is available yet.

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Antivirus isn't dead--it's growing up

Wed, 09/08/2010 - 6:00am
Despite longtime diagnoses that antivirus software is doomed, security will become a service for mobile devices, experts predict.

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Mozilla fixes Firefox holes, curtails clickjacking

Wed, 09/08/2010 - 5:00am
Along with the security fixes, Firefox 3.6.9 gets a new feature to help Web developers reduce clickjacking risks. Also: Chrome 6 gets bug fixes.

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Norton's new Power Eraser goes free

Wed, 09/08/2010 - 2:09am
The tool for removing aggressive malware is part of Symantec's 2011 refresh to its Norton consumer security suites.
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Study: Two-thirds of Web surfers fall prey to online crime

Wed, 09/08/2010 - 2:01am
Survey finds China, Brazil, India, and the U.S. at top of list of countries with the most cybercrime victims.

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Trend Micro bets on the cloud

Tue, 09/07/2010 - 10:00pm
Trend Micro revamps its consumer-protection suites by wagering heavily on cloud-based protection, creating security suites that the company claims are faster at detection and lighter on system resources.

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Court allows warrantless cell location tracking

Tue, 09/07/2010 - 3:44pm
Philadelphia appeals court rules that no search warrant is needed for police to track Americans' cell phone whereabouts but says individual judges can "sparingly" require one.

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Facebook closes hole that let spammers auto-post to walls, friends

Tue, 09/07/2010 - 2:37pm
Social-networking site plugs a second hole that allowed spammers to automatically post to people's pages.

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