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    Review: Google Chrome lacks polish under the hood (AP)

    Google Chrome, Google Inc.'s new Web browser, is shown during a news conference at the company's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2008. Google Inc. is releasing Chrome in a long-anticipated move aimed at countering the dominance of Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer and ensuring easy access to its market-leading search engine. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - Google Inc.'s new Web browser, called Chrome, does much of what a browser needs to do these days: It presents a sleek appearance, groups pages into easy-to-manage "tabs" and offers several ways for people to control their Internet privacy settings.


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    Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:05:56 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News
    Space -- the final frontier for computer viruses (CNET)
    CNET - The first ever reported computer virus has infected at least two laptops on board the International Space Station more than 200 miles above earth. -- read full article
    Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:53:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News
    Computer Virus Hitches Ride on Space Station (NewsFactor)
    NewsFactor - Perhaps you've seen this movie: A virus infects a human-piloted spacecraft, and within days the mission is compromised and Earth is lost to the alien attackers. There's now a report that the first part of that storyline has come true -- only it's a computer virus on the International Space Station. -- read full article
    Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:51:43 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News
    Researchers offer new way to avoid bogus Web sites (AP)
    AP - Intercepting Internet traffic, and spying on the communication between two computers, is a gold mine for hackers. Now Carnegie Mellon University researchers hope software they've built will make it harder for criminals to hit that jackpot. -- read full article
    Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:16:51 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News
    Computer virus goes into orbit (AFP)

    The International Space Station in June 2008 as seen from the US space shuttle Discovery as it moved away from the station after completing nine days of joint operations. NASA confirmed on Wednesday that a computer virus sneaked aboard the International Space Station only to be tossed into quarantine on July 25 by security software.(AFP/HO NASA/File/null)AFP - NASA confirmed on Wednesday that a computer virus sneaked aboard the International Space Station only to be tossed into quarantine on July 25 by security software.


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    Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:22:57 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News
    Panda Releases 2009 Security Line (PC Magazine)
    PC Magazine - Panda Security on Wednesday released the 2009 editions of its line of security products: Panda Global Protection 2009, Panda Internet Security 2009, and Panda AntiVirus Pro 2009. -- read full article
    Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:00:57 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News
    FBI investigates hacked FEMA phones (AP)
    AP - The FBI is investigating more than $12,000 in calls to the Middle East and Asia that were made when a hacker broke into the Federal Emergency Management Agency's phone system 10 days ago. -- read full article
    Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:47:59 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News
    Best Western rebuts claims of massive data breach (AP)
    AP - Did a computer intrusion at a Best Western hotel in Germany open the door for a hacker to steal the records of 8 million customers and pull off "the greatest cyber-heist in world history," as a Scottish newspaper put it? -- read full article
    Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:45:03 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News
    Joe Biden's pro-RIAA, pro-FBI tech voting record (CNET)
    CNET - By choosing Joe Biden as their vice presidential candidate, the Democrats have selected a politician with a mixed record on technology who has spent most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders, who ranks toward the bottom of CNET's Technology Voters' Guide, and whose anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP. -- read full article
    Sun, 24 Aug 2008 01:09:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News
    Brazilian charged in U.S. in connection with operating botnet (CNET)
    CNET - A Brazilian man has been charged in connection with operating a botnet composed of more than 100,000 computers infected with malicious software allegedly designed to send spam, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Thursday. -- read full article
    Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:09:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News
    FEMA phones hacked; calls made to Mideast, Asia (AP)
    AP - A hacker broke into a Homeland Security Department telephone system over the weekend and racked up about $12,000 in calls to the Middle East and Asia. -- read full article
    Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:58:59 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News
    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
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