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    Acquisition Helps Ready Internet Security Software Firm For Web 2.0 (Investor's Business Daily)
    Investor's Business Daily - Most people know Websense as the forbidding white page that pops up when you try to visit a Web site your employer doesn't care for. But that business isn't enough in the ever more complex world of Internet security. -- read full article
    Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:44:16 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News
    Defense: Prosecutors bending law for MySpace hoax (AP)
    AP - A defense attorney for the Missouri woman charged in a MySpace hoax that allegedly led to a 13-year-old girl's suicide argued in court papers that prosecutors are bending a cyber crime statute to prosecute his client. -- read full article
    Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:40:19 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News
    Attacks on Georgia Web Sites May Not Be 'Cyberwar' (NewsFactor)

    Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili speaks during a rally in Tbilisi August 12, 2008. (David Mdzinarishvili/Reuters)NewsFactor - Security researchers are still trying to work out exactly who is responsible for the cyberwar tactics that have knocked many Georgian government Web sites offline. While Georgian officials blamed Russia, many security experts have pointed the finger at the Russian Business Network (RBN), a shadowy outfit -- that may no longer even exist -- which has previously provided network services for Russian criminal gangs.


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    Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:22:04 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News
    Court says Britain should not send hacker to U.S. (Reuters)

    Gary McKinnon leaves Bow Street magistrates court in central London May 10, 2006. (Kieran Doherty/Reuters)Reuters - A European court has asked Britain to delay sending a computer expert to face trial in the United States until it can review his request to block his extradition.


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    Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:43:22 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News
    Hackers want to be your (malicious) friend (USATODAY.com)
    USATODAY.com - SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook isn't just popular with consumers and marketers. Hackers are finding flaws in computer-programming language JavaScript and planting malicious code in the profiles on the popular social-networking site and its rivals. -- read full article
    Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:19:38 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News
    Georgian Sites Were Scouted Before Mass Attack (NewsFactor)
    NewsFactor - Russia is not only attacking Georgia by land and by air, but hackers are attacking Georgia's computer systems. Cyber attackers began launching virtual missiles at Georgian servers on Aug. 8. -- read full article
    Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:06:33 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News
    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
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