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Man faces 55 years in jail for stealing 80,000 email addresses
IT security firm Sophos has encouraged authorities to pursue the spamming community following the news that a man has been charged with stealing the membership database held …
Cybercrime in Spain on the rise
Online fraud in Spain experienced a year-on-year growth of 50% in the first 4 months of 2006, according to Victor Domingo, president of the Internet Users Association. …
Weekly report on the latest Linux security software releases
Easy Integrity Check System 3.1c Easy integrity check system is designed primarily for system administrators for filesystem intergrity checkings. FTimes 3.7.0 FTimes is a …
Weekly report on the latest vendor security advisories
Debian Security Advisory – libgd2 (DSA 1117-1) Debian Security Advisory – gimp (DSA 1116-1) SUSE Security Announcement – SUSE Security Summary Report …
Sophos reveals latest spam relaying countries
Experts at SophosLabs scanned all spam messages received in the company’s global network of spam traps, and have revealed that for the first time in more than two years, …
Continuous Data Protection
To have a consistent, usable, secure copy of data to store long term, backup is required. Backup is the core of data protection because it provides the ability to recover data …
Use Panda DesktopSecure for Linux for free
Panda Software is launching Panda DesktopSecure for Linux, a complete security suite for protecting Linux workstations. This solution is available completely free to Linux …
Secure Computing warns of Google malware searches and fuzzing artificial intelligence
Secure Computing warns that artificial intelligence (AI) software used in testing by a small number of software developers is now being widely used by hackers to find formerly …
AppGate Security Server to get evaluated for Common Criteria certification
Atsec announced that AppGate Network Security has chosen them to perform an evaluation of the AppGate Security Server, Version 7 for Common Criteria certification. The Common …
CommView Network Analyzer product line gets an update
TamoSoft announces the immediate availability of the next version of its popular network analyzers for Windows 2000/XP/2003: CommView 5.3 for wired networks (download at HNS) …
Weekly Report on Viruses and Intruders – Ppdropper.A and Sinowal.BS trojans and Spybot.ADW and Netsky.BR worms
Ppdropper.A is a Trojan that exploits an, as yet unpatched, vulnerability detected in several versions of Microsoft PowerPoint, which could allow a remote attacker to access …
Protecting MySpace users against ad-based exploits
The infected ad, for a company named DeckOutYourDeck.com, has been found by security researchers to be running on several popular networking and file-sharing sites, ideal …
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