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| Yahoo Mail Gets an Antispam Boost
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| PC World - Yahoo has taken new steps to sharpen its Webmail service's antispam capabilities, including the adoption of two commercial technologies and the testing of an open-source system, the company said Tuesday. -- read full article |
| Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:50:13 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News |
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| New Thinking About Passwords: Write 'Em Down
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| PC Magazine - It used to be conventional wisdom among security experts that you should never write your passwords down, but thinking is changing on this. Roger Thomson, a respected anti-malware expert, thinks you should write them down, and PCMag security expert Larry Seltzer agrees, to an extent. -- read full article |
| Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:27:19 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News |
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| Correction: Computer Virus story
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| AP - In a Jan. 17 story about a computer virus, The Associated Press misidentified the chief research officer at antivirus firm F-Secure. His name is Mikko Hypponen, not Nikko Hypponen. -- read full article |
| Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:10:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News |
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| 'Updated' Worm Using Obama Spam To Spread Rapidly
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| NewsFactor - A virus that is spreading with a vengeance is plaguing businesses in the new year. The Conficker worm, which caused havoc on Windows PCs in October, has come back to strike more than 3.5 million PCs in 24 hours under a new name, Downadup, according to security analysts. -- read full article |
| Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:55:47 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News |
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| Virus spreads quickly, but may be a dud
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| AP - A computer virus that may leave Microsoft Windows users vulnerable to digital hijacking is spreading through companies in the U.S., Europe and Asia, already infecting close to 9 million machines, according to a private online security firm. -- read full article |
| Sun, 18 Jan 2009 06:49:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News |
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| Downadup Worm Races Onto Millions of PCs
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| NewsFactor - The Win32.Worm.Downadup is raging across the Internet, using new tricks to spread undetected. The worm spreads by exploiting a vulnerability in the Windows RPC Server Service and has infected millions of Windows PCs in the last two weeks. -- read full article |
| Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:17:03 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News |
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| Trends & Innovations - Wednesday
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| Investor's Business Daily - IRS computer security procedures were blasted by the GAO, which concluded that the tax agency has failed to properly protect personal data on millions of American taxpayers. It said the IRS allows "sensitive information, including IDs and passwords, to be readily available to any user on its internal network, and grants excessive access to individuals who do not need it." The GAO also cited the IRS for failing to encrypt data, monitor its mainframe for changes and physically restrict access to its computers. -- read full article |
| Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:50:15 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News |
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