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Oblivion Goes from T to M 
A press release from the ESRB announces that Oblivion’s rating has been changed from T to M, which of course guarantees that everyone aged 13 to 16 that currently owns the game will be turning it…

Student Allegedly Accessed Exams, Exam Answers 
Only On 4: A high school junior at one of New Englands most prestigious secondary schools is facing some very serious charges Friday. Those charges focus on whether the student gained computer access to exams and exam answers. More Local News

Powerful New Version of F5’s FirePass(R) Controller Delivers Industry-Leading Usability and a Single Access Platform to  
SEATTLE—-May 22, 2006–F5 Networks, Inc. F5 sets the standard for simplified management and ease-of use, delivering the first SSL VPN product to offer Visual Policy Management and Access Policy Templates; New EasyConnect capability offers a superior end-user connection experience

What Business Software Can Learn From Web 2.0
Information Week - The success of Web 2.0 companies like MySpace, Flickr, and Facebook demonstrates a remarkable shift in how people seek entertainment, collaborate, and communicate. The biggest change from first-generation Web sites is that users contribute content to

Kicking The Microsoft Habit
Information Week - Before Microsoft Outlook, which was introduced with Office 97, there were e-mail applications and there were personal information managers (PIMs). Outlook combined the two, which made it hugely popular with both individual users and businesses that

New IM Worm Operates Differently
Information Week - Security companies alerted users Tuesday of a worm that spreads via instant messaging, plants a bot on hijacked PCs, and poses a special challenge to researchers hoping to trace the bot back to its controller. Dubbed “Nagache.a” by the likes of

Apple Adds Seven Patents To Creative Labs Countersuit
Information Week - Apple Computer Inc. has added several patents to its original court filings in its countersuit against Creative Labs. In court documents filed May 17, Apple accuses Creative Labs, the U.S. division of Creative Technology Ltd., of infringing on seven

Software to monitor your kids’ online activity
NBC 2 - FORT MYERS: Unlike movies, the vast majority of the internet is unrated - opening up opportunities for your children to chat with strangers. But there are technological tricks that can give you peace of mind. You might think it’s impossible to watch

Parental Controls and Monitoring Software for AIM and Yahoo! Messenger
Ignite Software provides Parental Controls and Monitoring Software for parents and guardians … number one AIM parental control monitoring software program. It has award winning … the rest in Yahoo! parental monitoring software. Capabilities include conversation logging, user …

Image Processing Flaw Found in Firefox
Beta News - Firefox users may be vulnerable to a denial of service attack after researchers looked into reports of a new vulnerability within Firefox 1.5.0.3. The flaw exists in how the browser handles image tags. The SANS Internet Storm Center first wrote off

Career Central: Surfing Ills
eWeek - The seemingly casual act of Web surfing was thrust into the spotlight in April when an administrative law judge in New York City argued that a city employee had been unfairly penalized for browsing travel and entertainment sites on company time. The

Rootkit Infiltrates Online Poker Software
eWeek - For online poker players, this was always going to be a losing hand. A Trojan with malicious rootkit features hidden in a legitimate software package distributed by online gaming tools vendor Check Raised has the ability to hijack log-in information

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ITnews - A keylogger-equipped worm that steals usernames and passwords from the massive medieval fantasy role-playing game, “Priston Tale”, demonstrates the economic power of the virtual world, said a secur

Mark Rasch: Protection from prying NSA eyes
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Shahbaz leaves the Big Brother house 
Shahbaz has left the Big Brother house and will not be returning, the group was informed this evening. More to follow.

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Oblivion Goes from T to M 
A press release from the ESRB announces that Oblivion’s rating has been changed from T to M, which of course guarantees that everyone aged 13 to 16 that currently owns the game will be turning it…

LexisNexis finds disclosure meant less pain in data theft 
( InfoWorld ) - After a high-profile security breach exposed personal data about thousands of customers, LexisNexis found that being forthright was the best approach, according to a company executive. By being forthcoming with the public and victims the company survived with minimal impact, said Leo Cronin, LexisNexis senior director for information security, Tuesday at the Infosec Europe

Rootkit Infiltrates Online Poker Software 
A Trojan with offensive rootkit features can hijack online poker credentials and send the information to the malware writer. The company distributing the rootkit-infested software blames it on a rogue programmer.

Rootkits - At The Whiteboard - ZDNet
Rootkits attack deep within operating systems and make themselves invisible to the anti-spyware and anti-virus software sent out to detect them. Learn how to use rootkit detectors, which use the same

New PCI Card Blocks Rootkits
A startup funded by the U.S. government’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is ready to emerge from stealth mode with hardware and software-based technologies to fight the rapid spread of

Boing Boing: Sony DRM uses black-hat rootkits
Sony DRM uses black-hat rootkits. Steve sez, “A technical dissection by the mighty Mark Russinovich of Sony’s rootkit-based DRM. Sony uses genuine black-hat techniques to install a rootkit, even

Database Rootkits
Detecting Rootkits To detect modifications in a repository it is necessary to. Generate a baseline of the repository or get the baseline from the vendor Compare the repository against a

Microsoft security manager warns of the dangers of rootkits
When you are dealing with rootkits and some advanced spyware programs, the only solution is to rebuild from scratch. In some cases, there really is no way to recover without nuking the systems from

Rootkits_revisited
Rootkits Revisited. by Nancy Cottrell . We first brought rootkits to your attention when Sony started using them to circumvent music

Big Brother’s tabloid love affair 
Big Brother’s massive success is a blessing for papers and magazines in the summer “silly season”.

Steamy antics in the BB house 
Housemates have been enjoying a session of booze-fuelled kissing in the Big Brother pool. The fun started off innocently, as the housemates tried their best to create a whirlpool effect.

‘Big Brother’ returns to record ratings 
The return of Big Brother pulled in more than 8 million viewers to Channel 4 last night (Thursday), according to early figures.

Anna gets the boot 
SCHEMING glamour-girl Anna last night became the fourth contestant to be evicted from Big Brother - the second time she has been kicked out of the house.