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Symantec scraps Sygate consumer firewall
Date: 11/29/05
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Sygate Personal Firewall products get the ax due to overlap with Norton one month after Symantec's takeover of Sygate.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5974230.html
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Inside Symantec's security bunker
Date: 11/28/05
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What goes on behind the locked underground doors, as the company hunts down hacking attacks and tracks botnets?
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5973864.html
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Fuzzy logic behind Bush's cybercrime treaty
Date: 11/28/05
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Commentary--Declan McCullagh says the administration's treaty could boomerang against its authors' lofty intentions.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5973735.html
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Thieves put car security system to test
Date: 11/28/05
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BT's new vehicle tracking system is pricey, but a company project manager has reason to be grateful for it already.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5973301.html
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Terrorism threat to Net 'overstated'
Date: 11/28/05
Keywords: security
Q&A Security expert Bruce Schneier says the danger to the Internet is primarily from thieves not terrorists.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5973190.html
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Security experts lift lid on Chinese hack attacks
Date: 11/23/05
Keywords: security
Hackers for the Chinese government stole U.S. military secrets, security experts allege.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5969516.html
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Latest Sober threatens e-mail gateways
Date: 11/23/05
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Worm is generating a flood of e-mail traffic, which could hit corporate systems like a mini denial-of-service attack.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5969271.html
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Cyberterror 'overhyped,' security guru says
Date: 11/23/05
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Officials claiming terrorists pose serious danger to computer networks direct attention away from common criminals, expert says.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5968997.html
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Opera issues security patch
Date: 11/23/05
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Update addresses flaws that could allow a malicious attacker to remotely take control of a user's system.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5967695.html
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Sober worm offshoot trades on Paris Hilton, FBI
Date: 11/22/05
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Worm variant flares up in the wild, playing on lure of heiress and fear of Fed snooping, but is coming under control.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5967601.html
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Foreign powers are main cyberthreat, U.K .says
Date: 11/22/05
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Other countries are more of a risk to the U.K.'s infrastructure than hackers--and terrorists are even lower on the list, British agency says.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5967532.html
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Attack code released for IE hole
Date: 11/21/05
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Recently published code exploits new "extremely critical" flaw in the latest versions of Internet Explorer.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5965247.html
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Liberty Alliance rings bell for new ID products
Date: 11/21/05
Keywords: security
Authentication products from IBM, NEC, NTT and RSA Security get a passing grade on alliance's stringent interoperability tests.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5964961.html
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What makes a rootkit?
Date: 11/21/05
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The Sony copy-protection fiasco has moved the term from hacker lingo to a threat known and feared by ordinary PC owners.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5961568.html
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Who has the right to control your PC?
Date: 11/21/05
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Sony "rootkit" CD debacle spotlights broader clash over rights to control the way computers function.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5961609.html
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New Sony CD risk identified
Date: 11/19/05
Keywords: software
Label says it will work with Princeton researchers on fix for copy-protection software uninstaller.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5961560.html
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Sony offers new CDs, MP3s for recalled discs
Date: 11/18/05
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Customers can exchange a copy-protected CD for authorized MP3 downloads and a new, unprotected CD.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5960987.html
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Apple iTunes security flaw discovered
Date: 11/18/05
Keywords: software
A vulnerability in software that helps manage iTunes could allow an attacker to launch arbitrary code.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5960413.html
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EarthLink's pursuit lands spammer in can
Date: 11/18/05
Keywords: spam
Can-Spam prosecutions related to EarthLink lawsuits put one man in prison for a year and slap another with a $15.4 million judgment.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5959367.html
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iPods to support copy-protected CDs?
Date: 11/18/05
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Record label says its music from copy-protected CDs will play on Apple's iPod, but Apple disputes that notion.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5959341.html