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    Prosecutors: Cyber law applies to suicide case. (AP)
    AP - Federal prosecutors defended their use of a cyber crime statute in the case of a Missouri woman charged with using a MySpace hoax that allegedly led a 13-year-old girl to commit suicide. -- read full article
    Wed, 13 Aug 2008 03:57:08 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News
    PC Tools' Security Software Adds ThreatFire (PC Magazine)
    PC Magazine - PC Tools said Monday that it had begun shipping the 2009 versions of its security suite and desktop tools. In addition to the expected improvements in detection, both the Internet Security 2009 suite and Spyware Doctor 6 include "Behavior Guard," a fancy name for the ThreatFire behavioral technology PC Tools previously offered as a standalone product. -- read full article
    Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:00:47 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News
    Hackers Use Facebook for Malware Attack (NewsFactor)
    NewsFactor - Popular social-networking Web site Facebook is fighting back against hackers. -- read full article
    Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:28:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News
    Court blocks MIT students from showing subway hack (AP)
    AP - A federal judge ordered three college students to cancel a Sunday presentation at a computer hackers' conference where they planned to show security flaws in the automated fare system used by Boston's subway. -- read full article
    Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:08:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News
    iPhones-Macintosh computers become apples of hackers' eyes (AFP)

    A 3G iPhone is displayed in this file photo. Security specialists said Saturday that hackers are taking increasing aim at iPhones and Macintosh computers as the hot-selling Apple devices gain popularity worldwide.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Valerie Macon)AFP - Security specialists said Saturday that hackers are taking increasing aim at iPhones and Macintosh computers as the hot-selling Apple devices gain popularity worldwide.


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    Sun, 10 Aug 2008 05:12:38 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News
    Google "gadgets" called gateways for hackers (AFP)

    The logo of Internet search engine company Google its headquarters in Mountain View California. Hackers turned computer security specialists accuse Google of setting users up for online disasters by letting them personalize home pages with applications that could be tainted.(AFP/File/Nicholas Kamm)AFP - Hackers turned computer security specialists accuse Google of setting users up for online disasters by letting them personalize home pages with applications that could be tainted.


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    Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:52:58 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News
    Hackers mull physical attacks on a networked world (AP)
    AP - Want to break into the computer network in an ultra-secure building? Ship a hacked iPhone there to a nonexistent employee and hope the device sits in the mailroom, scanning for nearby wireless connections. -- read full article
    Sat, 09 Aug 2008 00:05:01 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News
    Get Panda Internet Security for Free After Rebate (PC Magazine)
    PC Magazine - A three-user license for Panda Internet Security 2008 is now available from Newegg.com for free, after rebate. -- read full article
    Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:40:49 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News
    French reporters booted from US computer security conference (AFP)

    Members of the media, seen August 1, 2008, go online at the main press center on the Olympic Green in Beijing. Reporters from an online French magazine were booted from the world's premier computer security conference Thursday after reportedly hacking a press room network to teach reporters about how easily Internet transmissions could be intercepted while covering the Olympics.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - Reporters from an online French magazine were booted from the world's premier computer security conference Thursday after reportedly hacking a press room network and stealing peers' passwords.


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    Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:14:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News
    iPhone 'Blacklist' Noted as 'I Am Rich' App Disappears (NewsFactor)
    NewsFactor - After some snooping into the core of an iPhone 3G, a hacker has reported finding a blacklist of sorts that could allow Apple to remove malicious or unauthorized applications from iPhones. -- read full article
    Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:43:07 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News
    Even computer security pros vulnerable to scams (AP)
    AP - Computer security professionals tend to be a highly paranoid bunch, seeing potential threats everywhere. It turns out that some aren't cautious enough, though. -- read full article
    Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:03:06 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News
    Online social networking sites are hacker playgrounds (AFP)

    The logo of social networking website 'Facebook'. Computer security researchers on Thursday warned that online social networking websites are playgrounds for hackers who can easily take advantage of people's trust.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - Computer security researchers on Thursday warned that online social networking websites are playgrounds for hackers who can easily take advantage of people's trust.


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    Fri, 08 Aug 2008 02:37:56 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News
    Major Internet security flaw also affects e-mail (AP)

    A skull-and-crossbones symbol is placed over a computer keyboard at a 'hacker academy' in Paris, France. Computer security professionals crammed into a Las Vegas ballroom on Wednesday for the first public briefing on an Internet flaw that lets hackers hijack traffic on the World Wide Web.(AFP/File/Joel Saget)AP - A newly discovered flaw in the Internet's core infrastructure not only permits hackers to force people to visit Web sites they didn't want to, it also allows them to intercept e-mail messages, the researcher who discovered the bug said Wednesday.


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    Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:46:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News
    Looking inside the Storm worm botnet (CNET)
    CNET - LAS VEGAS--On Wednesday, Joe Stewart, director of malware research for SecureWorks, presented his work on protocols and encryption used by the Storm worm botnet at Black Hat 2008. -- read full article
    Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:44:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News
    Security Geeks, Hackers Convene in Vegas (NewsFactor)
    NewsFactor - Thousands of network security professionals are in Las Vegas for the annual Black Hat Briefings computer security conference, which will be immediately followed by the DEFCON hacker convention. Both events focus on network and Internet security issues. The Black Hat conference is held at Caesars Palace Las Vegas Hotel & Casino, while DEFCON is at the Riviera Hotel & Casino August 8-16. -- read full article
    Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:04:37 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News
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