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On The Identity Theft Trail
While you are reading this, someone could be rummaging through your computer's hard drive, silently opening folders, looking at your photographs and documents, browsing your internet history and reading your emails.
Ananova |
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Connections for Untraceable
Within the FBI, there exists a division dedicated to investigating and prosecuting criminals on the Internet. Welcome to the front lines of the war on cybercrime, where Special Agent Jennifer Marsh has seen it all... until now.
IGN Entertainment |
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Absent Kaspersky leaves the crowds waiting
HEAVYWEIGHT MALWARE BUSTER, Eugene Kaspersky disappointed a crowd of fat-walletted potential customers yesterday when he failed to show up for his keynote address at the Infosec show at London's Olympia exhibition centre.
The Inquirer |
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Criminals turn to web and dump malicious email
Trojan downloaders jump by 300 percent Cybercriminals dropped malicious email in favour of web-based attacks during the second half of last year, according to data reported to Microsoft by Windows users.
PC Advisor |
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Cyber checks for Olympic visitors
Travelers making their way to Beijing this August for the Olympic Games should keep an eye out for cybercriminals looking to exploit poor Internet user habits, warns security firm.
ZDNet Asia |
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In cyberspace they can't hear you scream
It's been dubbed "cybergeddon", the "digital mushroom cloud". What would happen if well-organised hackers - criminal syndicates, agents of hostile nation-states or terrorists - disabled the computer networks that sustain the critical infrastructure of modern societies?
Stuff |
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One New Infected Webpage Found Every Five Seconds, Reveals Latest Sophos Security Threat Report
BOSTON, BUSINESS WIRE -- IT security and control firm Sophos has published its latest Security Threat Report, which looks at worldwide cybercrime during the first quarter of 2008. The findings show a dramatic increase in web-based threats compared to 2007 - the first three months of 2008 showed Sophos finding and blocking a new infected webpage every five seconds, compared with one every 14 ...
Broadcast Newsroom |
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One New Infected Webpage Found Every Five Seconds, Reveals Latest Sophos Security Threat Report
IT security and control firm Sophos has published its latest Security Threat Report, which looks at worldwide cybercrime during the first quarter of 2008. The findings show a dramatic increase in web-based threats compared to 2007 - the first three months of 2008 showed Sophos finding and blocking a new infected webpage every five seconds, compared with one every 14 seconds last year.
Centre Daily Times |
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'Free Tibet' Message Masks Rootkit Malware
Malware creators are taking advantage of the controversy over the upcoming Olympic Games to spread their wares for illicit financial gain. Latching onto the Free Tibet political demonstrations that have spread around the world, would-be thieves have embedded a piece of rootkit malware that logs keystrokes in an executable Flash movie file called "RaceForTibet."
E-Commerce Times |
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BJ's Restaurants, Inc. Announces Date for First Quarter 2008 Earnings Release and Conference Call
BJ's Restaurants, Inc. (NASDAQ:BJRI) today announced that it will release its first quarter 2008 results after the market closes on Thursday, April 24, 2008. The Company will host an investor conference call at 2:00 p.m. (Pacific) that same day. The conference call will be broadcast live over the Internet. To listen to the conference call, please visit the "Investors" page of the Company's ...
Centre Daily Times |
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201 Days to the Election: A look at the race for 2008 on Thursday
AP-Yahoo poll shows McCain winning back some unhappy Republicans and Democrats too ... British prime minister talks with the candidates, one of whom will succeed Bush ... Gallup Poll: Clinton, Obama lead McCain in 2004 competitive states ...
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune |
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LA jury convicts women in murder of homeless men (6:50 a.m.)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A jury that returned five guilty verdicts against two women in the murder-for-profit deaths of two homeless men still has work to do.
The Record |
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Craigslist Bites Back, Answers Connecticut AG
Craigslist is defending itself against charges by Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal that solicitations for prostitution are "rampant" on its Web site and demanding that Blumenthal retract statements it says are defamatory.
Electronic Frontier Foundations |
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Open-Source Flash Rival "Gnashes" Out
A non-profit open source project with high-profile backers has released beta code for an open source Flash media player, with a media server in the wings. Open Media Now's Gnash player runs standalone or as a plugin, and may run better than Flash on constrained devices.
Electronic Frontier Foundations |
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ICICI Bank to offer Visa eMarketplace
ICICI Bank, Visa and Elcom Systems, on Thursday announced the launch of Visa eMarketplace, an online portal that connects sellers and buyers of commercial goods and services.
The Economic Times |
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HP puts MS Media Center Extender into MediaSmart TVs
HP has announced that it will be the first company to introduce Microsoft Media Center Extender capability to an Internet-connected TV. HP is introducing the capability into new HP MediaSmart TVs, but those people with second generation Media Smart TV’s won’t be left out though. They will receive the new capability automatically. The Extender for [...]
Geek.com |
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NAB - Jeff talks@TMO - Under the Radar: Apple at NAB
After four days at NAB I've noticed that even though Apple wasn't at the event, they certainly had a profound impact on the people that were there. IÕm not talking about the Macs that were visible at so many of the booths; I'm talking about all of the iPhones and Apple laptops attendees had
The Mac Observer |
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First day of one-stop voting draws small crowd at elections office
Computer problems slowed a small crowd of people that flowed into the Craven County Board of Elections office this morning for the first day of early voting in the state primary.
New Bern Sun Journal |
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Standard Microsystems profit rises
Semiconductor maker Standard Microsystems Corp. said Thursday that its fiscal fourth-quarter profit rose as mobile and desktop PC revenue and industrial and other markets revenue increased.
Long Island Business News |
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OPINION: Does the Internet Let Lying Liars Lie?
I'm a big fan of "Lies (And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them)" just for the title alone. And if Al Franken were running for president instead of senator from Minnesota, I'd be right there handing out buttons and twisting every arm in reach. Mostly to bother the national Democrats.
Gay City News |
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Linus Torvalds included patches
into the mainline tree which implement a stable userspace driver API into the Linux kernel. The stable driver API was already announced a year ago by Greg Kroah-Hartman.
New Mobile Computing |
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U.S. consumers still slow to recycle gadgets
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Green may be the new black, but many U.S. consumers are not recycling old electronic gadgets despite promises by multiple organizations for hassle-free ways to get rid of electronic waste.
Canada.com |
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Porn studio wants Google, Yahoo to protect kids from adult video
The world's leading adult film studio is calling on Internet giants Google and Yahoo to "erect stronger barriers" to keep children from viewing online pornography.
Canada.com |
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Is Muslim site a hotbed for hostility?
Muxlim.com, a popular social networking Web site for Muslims, has become a hot digital draw for the Islamic community throughout the world.
J. the Jewish News Weekly of Northern California |
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Clinton Says "Ask Me"
AP- Yahoo poll shows McCain winning back some unhappy Republicans and Democrats too ... British prime minister talks with the candidates, one of whom will succeed Bush ...
The San Francisco Examiner |
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