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Sophisticated phish/keylog install scary on many levels
NetworkWorld.com, MA - Oct 20, 2006… More troubling, to me anyway, is that they use a journalist name to get users to click in response, at which time they get the keystroke logger. …

Risky Travels: Can You Stay Secure?
Redmondmag.com, CA - Oct 13, 2006… computers). With this configuration, any student in the classroom could install a keystroke logger on any of the computers. Typically …

Deckhead: Between the Lines
Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun, NY - Sep 27, 2006… There is, of course, the obvious danger of a keystroke logger discovering your credit card number, bank account numbers or the like, but let s put that aside …

Apple Blames Microsoft for iPod Virus
UPDATED: Small number of video iPods affected, Apple says.

Vuln: Mozilla Firefox JavaScript Handler Race Condition Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Mozilla Firefox JavaScript Handler Race Condition Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Ward: Trip to Texas
Rushville Republican - Gene and Eddie, and Chester their Cocker Spaniel, were there waiting for us and it was wonderful to see big brother and his bride once again. Christmas in Texas was not like Christmas in Indiana. No snow and rather warm weather. Something both my

THE FRONT ROW with Rod Harwood
Coeur d’Alene Press - This is the sixth in a series of columns addressing the topic of integrity in athletics. I don’t have an answer. I don’t like the idea of a Nazi state, complete with whistleblowers and Big Brother watching. Then again, I don’t like the idea of

Are your strokes safe from snoops? 
Investigators hired by Hewlett Packard’s board of directors used a technique called “pretexting” to obtain personal records. Recent news reports indicate that the company may have also used a more common snooping tool: programs that record computer users’ keystrokes.

Chat Transcript: Identity theft expert Det. Jim Dunn of the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office 
Moderator: Welcome to The Olympian’s Capitol Chat. I’m your moderator, Scott Gutierrez, The Olympian’s criminal justice reporter. Here with us today is Sgt. Jim Dunn, a longtime fraud and financial crimes detective with the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office.

BOFH : The mystery of the impenetrable data safe 
Impenetrable? Yeah right Episode 33

Unpatched IE Hole Swarmed 
Flaw is used to flood infected machines

A HIGH-TECH BUG COULD SPY ON YOU
San Jose Mercury News,  USA - Sep 26, 2006… Laws prohibit the use of such keylogger programs, which are considered the equivalent of wiretaps that require court approval before they can be used by law …

Flight disaster phishing scam lands in Brazil
Help Net Security, Croatia - Oct 3, 2006… hosting a Trojan downloader. The malware attempts to install a banking keylogger onto the PCs of potential marks. The attack, written …

Deckhead: Between the Lines
Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun, NY - Sep 27, 2006… There is, of course, the obvious danger of a keystroke logger discovering your credit card number, bank account numbers or the like, but let s put that aside …

Racy pics of Russian pop duo t.A.T.u tempt e-mail users
Researchers at IT security vendor Sophos today warned of new spyware Trojan horse that promises racy pictures of the teenage Russian pop group t.A.T.u. as a means to entice e-mail users to click on a malicious attachment. The Banito-BE Trojan horse, according to Sophos, has been spammed out to e-mail addresses around the world promising intimate information on the duo, best known for their schoolgirl outfits and sexually charged performances. The e-mail has three files attached, one of which is a malicious file that could give hackers access to PCs, Sophos says. TATU.CHM is a malicious compressed HTML help file, which offers an album of images but also opens up the PC to malicious activity. Sophos says the potential harm of such files includes data and ultimately financial theft.

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IE 7’s First Security Hole
Well, that was quick.

Trend Micro Internet Security 2007
ABC News - Oct 6, 2006… Evaluating TMIS’s performance against commercial keyloggers is hard, as one of the keylogger-test systems suffered death by blue-screen. …

What Tim McGuire found at Dunn Bros.
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription), MN - Oct 15, 2006What it is: MSCACK.dll is part of a program called “spIE” (pronounced spy), which belongs to a class of “spyware” programs called a “keylogger.” A keylogger is …

Publicc omputers might be more accessible than you know
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription), MN - Oct 14, 2006… Flipping through the Web browser’s pull-down menus, he noticed a spyware program called a “keylogger.”. A keylogger is software that …

I know what you’re thinking
The Age, Australia - 6 hours agoEpisodes of Big Brother can teach us a lot about how we communicate, but not in the way you imagine. If you ignore the spoken exchanges …

McGovern confesses he s no Big Brother
MK News, UK - Oct 4, 2006Jon-Paul McGovern says he s glad to be out of the MK Dons Big Brother House because nobody appreciated his cooking! …

Big Brother’s Nikki Kicks Off Over Ice Cream She wants one …
Entertainmentwise, UK - Oct 4, 2006Big Brother s Nikki recently stunned members of the public when they saw her acting like a spoilt brat. Nikki was spotted at a …

60 SECONDS: Michael Barrymore
Metro, UK - 6 hours ago… In 2001, the body of Stuart Lubbock was found in Barrymore’s pool after a party at his home. He also appeared on Celebrity Big Brother. …

Bowling raises awareness
Joliet Herald News, IL - 4 hours agoMore than 25 children who are ready to be matched with a Big Brother or a Big Sister were treated to an afternoon of bowling and food courtesy of National City …

Big Brother rapped after premium-rate calls complaints
Brand Republic Bulletin, UK - Oct 6, 2006LONDON - Channel 4’s ‘Big Brother’ has been found guilty of misleading viewers regarding evicted contestants returning to the house as part of this year’s show …

New Hacker Toolkit Cloaks Browser Exploits
Information Week - Metasploit, which regularly publishes exploit code for its flagship open-source attack testing platform, has released a new module designed to disguise any browser exploit from detection by signature-based defenses, Symantec warned Tuesday. HD Moore

You dropped the bomb on me
Minnesota Daily - The show exploits the worst-case-scenario fears of post-9/11 culture, showing the aftermath of a catastrophic nuclear attack on a small town of survivors. The show is thrilling, suspenseful and absolutely frightening because it seems like a

Apple Shipped iPods Carrying Windows Virus
eWeek - That virus name could represent a range of different exploits, experts with the security company said. “There are a number of different pieces of malware that use a file called RavMonE.exe and so we don’t know at the moment precisely which Trojan

Microsoft: Excuses on iPod virus not credible
Infoworld - Learn seven practical steps Protecting Web Applications from Attack and Misuse - Threats facing enterprise organizations have shifted from network-layer exploits to more formidable attacks. Find out more about these threats and how to defend

Weekend Guide
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - THE ROVER Restoration comedy by Aphra Behn explores the exploits of three wealthy sisters. Playhouse Conservatory Company (Point Park University student productions) at the Playhouse, 222 Craft Ave., Oakland. Ends Sun. Wed.-Sat. 8 p.m.; Sun. 2 p.m