| Suit over China's Web filter to target Lenovo, Acer, Sony |
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Jul 03, 2009 - 2:55 PM - by ArticleBot
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A U.S. company will seek legal action against Lenovo, Acer and Sony next week over their shipment in China of controversial software that the company says stole its programming code.
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| Apple may be exempt from China's Web filter mandate |
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Jul 03, 2009 - 2:42 AM - by ArticleBot
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Apple appears to be exempt from China's mandate that a controversial Internet filtering program be shipped with all computers sold in the country.
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| Court orders spammers to pay $3.7 million |
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Jul 02, 2009 - 2:41 PM - by ArticleBot
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A U.S. district court has ordered members of an alleged international spam ring to give up US$3.7 million that they made while sending out illegal e-mail messages pitching bogus weight-loss products and human growth hormone pills.
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| Chinese security company shares huge malware database |
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Jul 02, 2009 - 2:38 AM - by ArticleBot
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A Chinese company that has created a massive database of malware found on Chinese Web sites opened up the information to other security organizations on Thursday.
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| Security guard charged with hacking hospital systems |
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Jul 02, 2009 - 2:38 AM - by ArticleBot
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The grainy video shows a bleary-eyed young man in a hoodie inside the Carrell Clinic in Dallas, Texas. As he hits the elevator button, the theme music from Mission Impossible plays in the background. "You're on a mission with me: Infiltration," he tells the camera.
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| CSIRT Management: Lessons from other group postmortems |
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Jul 01, 2009 - 1:22 PM - by ArticleBot
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My favorite graduate course in the Norwich University Master of Science in Information Assurance Program is the "Computer Security Incident Response Team Management" graduate seminar which I developed some years ago based in part on an extensive series of articles on the subject that appeared here in the Network World Security Strategies and that I collected for readers in a single document freely available on my Web site along with a free companion CD-ROM from the Defense Information... [Read More]
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| Pirate Bay to become a legal file-sharing site |
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Jul 01, 2009 - 1:22 PM - by ArticleBot
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Swedish software firm Global Gaming Factory (GGF) has purchased BitTorrent search engine The Pirate Bay and plans to turn it into a legal downloading service.
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| Trade groups urge China to drop Web filtering program |
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Jun 30, 2009 - 2:40 AM - by ArticleBot
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A wide-ranging group of trade associations has urged China to lift its requirement that an Internet filtering program be distributed with all new PCs, with the order set to take effect this week.
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| Blind phone hacker gets 11-year sentence |
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Jun 30, 2009 - 2:40 AM - by ArticleBot
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A Boston-area teenager was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison Friday for hacking into the telephone network and harassing the Verizon investigator who was building a case against him.
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| Software not smart enough to sort human relationships |
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Jun 29, 2009 - 1:50 PM - by ArticleBot
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Internet search engines and software applications can catalog huge volumes of information, but they aren't smart enough to trace personal relationships between people, according to the executive chairman of World-Check, a company that maintains a database of individuals that banks and other companies might want to think twice about doing business with.
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| Symantec culls user data to spot unsafe programs |
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Jun 29, 2009 - 1:50 PM - by ArticleBot
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Symantec is to use the 'wisdom of the crowds' and introduce reputation-based security in the next version of its Norton Antivirus 2010 product.
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| FTC suspends heavy penalty against scareware defendants |
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Jun 26, 2009 - 2:51 PM - by ArticleBot
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has suspended the majority of a judgment levied against two defendants accused of selling bogus security software to up to a million consumers.
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| Out of business, Clear may sell customer data |
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Jun 26, 2009 - 2:51 AM - by ArticleBot
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Three days after ceasing operations, owners of the Clear airport security screening service acknowledged that their database of sensitive customer information may end up in someone else's hands, but only if it goes to a similar provider, authorized by the U.S. Transportation Security Administration.
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| National Grid signs £207m deal for data network |
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Jun 26, 2009 - 2:51 AM - by ArticleBot
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National Grid has signed £207 million worth of deals with Cable & Wireless for a new data network.
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| Microsoft Security Essentials: The First Test Results Are In |
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Jun 25, 2009 - 2:41 PM - by ArticleBot
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The biggest question on everyone's minds with regard to Microsoft Security Essentials is how well it can detect and remove malware. The early returns are in, and Microsoft Security Essentials performed well overall in initial malware detection testing provided to PC World by AV-test.org.
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