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    Michael Jackson death spurs spam, viruses 27 June, 2009 09:20

    Less than 24 hours after Michael Jackson's death, fraudsters are exploiting public interest with their attempts to spread spam and malware. Security researchers say they've observed hundreds of cases of malicious messages masquerading as information about Jackson's death. Some of them, they say, popped up within minutes of the news.
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    Thousands of Web sites stung by mass hacking attack 03 June, 2009 03:08

    Up to 40,000 Web sites have been hacked to redirect unwitting victims to another Web site that tries to infect PCs with malicious software, according to security vendor Websense.
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    Racism, hate, militancy sites proliferating via social networking 01 June, 2009 08:37

    Rascism, hate, and militancy sites have tripled in number over the past year on the Web and within corners of social-networking sites like Facebook, YouTube, Google and Yahoo, according to one vendor tracking them.
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    Websense and Riverbed Team to Deliver Industry-Leading Web Security and WAN Optimization Solution for the Enterprise 25 May, 2009 08:29

    Websense Web Security integrated with Riverbed Services Platform helps organizations enhance business performance and security
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    Fake URLs new malware threat 14 May, 2009 15:04

    Domain name cloning of social networking sites has become the latest security threat to computer users both at home and in business.
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    Businesses shun Web 2.0 security: survey 18 March, 2009 08:58

    Businesses are shunning Web 2.0 specific security, according to recent research.
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    Fake security software scammers jump on Conficker 01 March, 2009 08:26

    Google's search rankings are being stuffed with links to fake security software that purports to remove Conficker, a widespread worm that's currently the Internet's number one security threat, but doesn't.
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    Bot busts newest Hotmail CAPTCHA 19 February, 2009 08:24

    Spammers have cracked Microsoft's latest defense against abuse of its Live Hotmail e-mail service using a sophisticated network of hacked computers that receive encrypted instructions from a central server, a security company has reported.
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    With acquisition Websense to silence comment spam 28 January, 2009 06:59

    Web security vendor Websense has acquired Defensio, a provider of Web services used to delete comment spam off of blogs and Web sites.
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    Hackers lurking in Obama's Web site 27 January, 2009 08:12

    US President Barack Obama ran a successful Web 2.0 campaign last year. Now, as president, he's got to deal with a very Web 2.0 problem: hackers abusing the social-networking features of his Web site.
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    Chinese team mistakenly released unpatched IE7 exploit 12 December, 2008 08:06

    Chinese security researchers mistakenly released the code needed to hack a PC by exploiting an unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 browser, potentially putting millions of computer users at risk -- but it appears some hackers already knew how to exploit the flaw.
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