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Tuesday Security News
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(link) Tuesday, 5-July-2005 12:52:11 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Another pile of (mostly) security-related news from Paul:
The internet's two largest search engines are begging to get hacked.
In a major blow to technological innovation today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favour of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in a huge P2P case.
DOZENS of men accused of downloading child pornography from the internet may have been wrongly prosecuted, according to expert prosecution and defence witnesses.
Today's Hackers Code for Cash, Not Chaos.
The U.S. government's computer watchdog group issued a warning Thursday about possible attacks on systems running computer backup software from Veritas.
When Microsoft released limited information on a critical vulnerability in Internet Explorer last month, reverse engineer Halvar Flake decided to dig deeper.
There is a 50 percent chance your unprotected Windows PC will be compromised within 12 minutes of going online, says security vendor Sophos.
Judge bans company's deceptive anti-spyware claims.
Bank workers biggest ID theft threat.
Passive Visual Fingerprinting of Network Attack Tools.
Bluetooth group offers security tips to avoid attacks.
Sensor turns cell phones into wireless Web servers.
Two security researchers say they have discovered a technique for taking control of Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones, even when the handsets have security features switched on.
Ethical hacking and rats in the security world.
China won't protect IP until it gets its own IT.
Fake Microsoft alert comes with free Trojan.
According to the Information center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, 13723 computer crimes were committed in Russia last year. It makes a twofold increase over the previous number of 7052 cyber crimes in 2003.
Malware authors have increased both the volume and sophistication of their attacks over the last six months. In the first half of 2005 anti-virus firm Sophos detected and protected against 7,944 new viruses - up 59 per cent from the first six months of 2004. The number of keylogging Trojans has tripled in the first six months of 2005 compared to the first half of 2004.
Microsoft is considering buying online marketing company Claria, according to a report in the New York Times.
New Wi-Fi Hacker Attack.
Laptop Theft - An Insider's guide to not becoming another Statistic.
De Montfort University, in England's East Midlands, is launching a new degree aimed at combating computer crime.
Less than a month after Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Server Update Services enterprise patch-management platform was released to manufacturing, Microsoft has turned off downloads of the previous version.
Microsoft ready to discuss RSS security.
President Bush signed a new law last month setting tough penalties of up to 10 years in prison for anyone caught distributing a movie or song prior to its commercial release.
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