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Worm infections in the enterprise rose by nearly 100%

The latest Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIRv7), which indicates that worm infections in the enterprise rose by nearly 100 percent during the first half of 2009 over …

Convicted social networks “hacker” commits suicide

StudiVZ, a social network for students based in Berlin and the German answer to (and clone of) Facebook, has been hit by unpleasant news. TechCrunch Europe reports that the …

Woman fired as a result of error in FBI criminal database

Ages ago when I first saw “The Net”, an action thriller featuring Sandra Bullock as a computer expert whose life gets turned upside down by hackers who have access …

Record levels of spam, malware and Web-based threats

The number of new file-sharing sites hosting unauthorized, copyrighted content skyrocketed over the last three months, according to McAfee’s latest report. It also shows …

Week in review: Malicious email attachments, phishing trends, China’s cyber army and Halloween attacks

Here is an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, interviews and articles: Q&A: Malware threats, Windows 7 and cyber crime Bo Olsen is a malware …

Facebook spammer has to pay big money

Facebook has won the court battle against Sanford Wallace, one of the spammers who obtained access to people’s accounts and used them to spam their friends. He is …

DHS to open new cyber operations center

During a roundtable at RSA Conference Europe last week, Philip Reitinger, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Deputy Under Secretary for the National Protection and …

Careless spammer reveals tricks of the trade

I guess it had to happen sooner or later. After looking at who knows how many spam-and-scam occurrences, Patrick Fitzgerald of Symantec has struck gold while investigating the …

UK’s own “three-strikes” anti-piracy law announced

Following the decision of the European Parliament that enables European member states to approve laws that force ISPs to disconnect individuals from the Internet, the UK is …

Facebook hit by phishing scam and banking Trojan combo

Facebook users should be on the lookout for an email threat that is posing as a message from Facebook administrators. The message contains both a phishing scam and a notorious …

Network access control system PacketFence 1.8.5 released

PacketFence is a free and open source network access control (NAC) system. PacketFence is actively maintained and has been deployed in numerous large-scale institutions over …

Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala released

Released today, Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop Edition and Server Edition bring a host of new features and further position Ubuntu as a viable competitor to Windows 7. Ubuntu 9.10 …

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