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Facebook glitch let spammer post to walls
A clever spammer found a glitch in Facebook's photo upload system and used it to post thousands of unwanted Wall messages this week.
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HP buys 3Par, Apple rolls out new gear
Hewlett-Packard swooped in with the better bid to overtake Dell and win 3Par, so now we can all sit back and wait for the next acquisition battle to roll around. Meanwhile, Apple debuted updated iPods and Apple TV to entertain us, among other IT news stories of the week.
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Nigerian advance-fee scammer gets 12 years
A Nigerian advance-fee scammer, Okpako Diamreyan, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison by a federal judge.
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Investigators find famous DJ's credit card details for sale
Armin Van Buuren is one of the world's most well-known trance music DJs. He also apparently has had his credit card details stolen.
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Apple had two months to fix critical QuickTime bug, says researcher
A critical bug in QuickTime was reported to Apple two months before a second researcher independently revealed the vulnerability this week, the director of a bug bounty program said Friday.
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Consumer group lampoons Google CEO over privacy issues
Consumer Watchdog, a group that has been a sharp critic of Google's privacy practices in the past, is at it again.
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Security program automatically tracks down missing patches
Secunia has updated its Personal Software Inspector (PSI) with the ability to silently download and apply patches from multiple vendors soon after their release. PSI 2.0 is now available in an open beta test.
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Women did well on Defcon social engineering test
Organizers of a recent Defcon social engineering contest will release their results next week. One conclusion is that women did well in protecting corporate secrets.
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To boost security, Facebook adds remote logout
Facebook users will soon have a new way of knocking spammers out of legitimate accounts.
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Botnet takedown may yield valuable data
Researchers are hoping to get a better insight on botnets after taking down part of Pushdo, one of the top five networks of hacked computers responsible for most of the world's spam.
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3Par faces patent infringement lawsuit
3Par, which is already the subject of a bidding war between Hewlett-Packard and Dell, is now among a group of companies being sued by Crossroads Systems for patent infringement.
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3Par faces lawsuit as bidding war continues
3Par, which is already the subject of a bidding war between Hewlett-Packard and Dell, is now among a group of companies being sued by Crossroads Systems for patent infringement.
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Discover to get $5M from Heartland for '08 data breach
Heartland Payment Systems has agreed to pay $5 million to Discover to settle claims arising from the massive data breach disclosed by the payment processor last year.
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DARPA launches insider threat detection effort for military
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has launched an effort aimed at finding and detecting to insider threats on Department of Defense networks.
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Miami man pleads guilty in ID theft case
A Miami man has pleaded guilty to two identity-theft related charges after federal agents found more than 26,000 credit card numbers stored on his computer, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
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FCC must make ISPs crack down on spammers and malware
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is asking for help in developing a "Cybersecurity Roadmap," an ambitious plan to identify dangerous vulnerabilities in the Internet infrastructure, as well as threats to consumers, businesses and governments.
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Microsoft still mum on programs prone to DLL hijacking attacks
Microsoft on Tuesday again abstained from naming which of its Windows programs, if any, contain bugs that could lead to widespread "DLL load hijacking" attacks.
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Moscow police investigate alleged ransomware gang
Russian police are reportedly investigating a criminal gang that installed malicious "ransomware" programs on thousands of PCs and then forced victims to send SMS messages in order to unlock their PCs.
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Researchers slate 'month of bugs' launch for Wednesday
Starting Wednesday, a little-known group of security researchers will kick off a month of bug disclosures that target unpatched vulnerabilities in software from Adobe, Microsoft, Mozilla, Apple and others.
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