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    Researcher Offers Tool to Hide Malware in .Net (PC World)
    PC World - A computer security researcher has released an upgraded tool that can simplify the placement of difficult-to-detect malicious software in Microsoft's .Net framework on Windows computers. -- read full article
    Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:20:13 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News
    iWork Trojan horse may be turning Macs into zombies (Macworld.com)
    Macworld.com - Over the years, Mac users have been lucky enough that the word “zombie” only conjures up the shambling brain-craving hordes of the undead in movies like Shaun of the Dead, but Windows users have long been dealing with the menace of zombie botnets—networks of PCs corrupted by malware into vectors for malicious attacks. -- read full article
    Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:21:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News
    Phishers get more wily as cybercrime grows (Reuters)
    Reuters - Phishing scams have grown up from the unsophisticated swindles of the past in which fake Nigerian princes e-mailed victims, who would get a big windfall if they just provide their bank account number. -- read full article
    Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:04:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News
    Researcher Finds Possible Bug in Apple's IPhone (PC World)
    PC World - Famed Mac hacker Charlie Miller has found another possible security vulnerability in Apple's iPhone. -- read full article
    Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:20:18 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News
    Economic crisis 'to boost cyber crime': Microsoft (AFP)

    File photo shows a computer keyboard at AFP - The global financial crisis threatens to spark a rise in cyber crime as computer experts lose their jobs and resort to illegal ways to earn a living, a senior official of Microsoft said Thursday.


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    Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:03:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News
    Stealthy Rootkit Slides Further Under the Radar (PC World)
    PC World - Thousands of Web sites have been rigged to deliver a powerful piece of malicious software that many security products may be unprepared to handle. -- read full article
    Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:20:14 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News
    Study: Spammers scourge to inbox and environment (AP)
    AP - There are plenty of reasons to hate spammers. Add this to the list: They're environmentally unfriendly. -- read full article
    Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:26:55 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News
    Computer Attackers Target Popular Sites In Quest For Profit (Investor's Business Daily)
    Investor's Business Daily - Twitter just got hit with a messy worm, Conficker is trying new attacks and quiet data-stealing Trojans continue to plague computing. -- read full article
    Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:49:48 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News
    Conficker Group Says Worm 4.6 Million Strong (PC World)
    PC World - Security experts say that the Conficker worm has infected an awful lot of computers, making it the largest "botnet" of hacked computers on the planet. The thing they can't seem to agree on, however, is exactly how many people have been hit. -- read full article
    Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:00:15 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News
    Spam E-mails Killing the Environment, McAfee Report Says (PC World)
    PC World - If annoying users and wasting their time wasn't bad enough, spam e-mails are also responsible for clogging our atmosphere with carbon dioxide, a gas that shoulders much of the blame for global warming, according to a report commissioned by antivirus vendor McAfee. -- read full article
    Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:00:12 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News
    Deleted Data Drives New Data Breaches (PC World)
    PC World - According to a new report on data breaches from Verizon Business, cyber criminals are no longer attacking where the credit card files are, but where they once were. "Criminals are borrowing from digital forensics tools," said Bryan Sartan, director of investigative response for Verizon Business Security Solutions. -- read full article
    Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:01:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News
    Study: Spammers scourge to inbox and environment (AP)
    AP - There are plenty of reasons to hate spammers. Add this to the list: They're environmentally unfriendly. -- read full article
    Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:06:41 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News
    EU urges tougher Internet privacy rules (AFP)

    Photo taken in 2003 shows customers at a cybercafe in London. The European Commission says it is launching legal action against Britain over concerns about the British government's failure to protect Internet users' privacy.(AFP/File/Jim Watson)AFP - The European Commission called on Tuesday for tougher protection of Internet users' privacy, urging a review of rules protecting personal information in the light of technological progress.


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    Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:24:02 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News
    A few pennies for your thoughts — and credit card (AP)
    AP - One economy apparently isn't hurting these days — the one run by identity thieves in the dark corners of the Internet. -- read full article
    Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:09:51 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News
    EU to sue Britain over Internet privacy (AP)
    AP - The European Union started legal action against Britain on Tuesday for not applying EU data privacy rules that would restrict an Internet advertising tracker, called Phorm, from watching how users surf the web. -- read full article
    Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:15:23 GMT - Yahoo! News: Security News
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