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Vodafone to face wiretap suit 
The family of the Vodafone software engineer who was at the center of the phone-tapping scandal will take civil action against the mobile-phone provider after prosecutors found that Costas Tsalikidis committed suicide, lawyer Themistoklis Sofos told Kathimerini yesterday.

Spy Software Used in Call Centers 
Forrester Research of Cambridge, Mass., said sales of “emotion detection” technology to corporate call centers has reached $400 million annually. Forrester said sales are still growing for the systems and a related technology known as “speech analytics,” The Washington Post reported Wednesday. The technologies, which were originally developed for eavesdropping, have been employed by customer

Federico Biancuzzi: FreeBSD Security Event Auditing
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Defence fires missile at IT industry
Technology vendors have taken a verbal hammering from the Australian Defence Force (ADF) after one of its top procurement chiefs blamed the industry for most of its IT project failures. Kim Gillis, deputy chief executive officer of the ADF’s procurement arm, the Defence Materiel Organisation, said vendors set unrealistic expectations in tenders — which was usually the cause of those government IT projects failing. Government tenders were often surrounded by “a conspiracy of optimism,” said Gillis. “Say I’m going to put in an IT system in 2000-and-whatever, and go out to industry and say ‘I want you to give me this type of capability’,” he told delegates at the Gartner Symposium conference in Sydney.

Security Flaw Could Ground Wi-Fi Users
No Internet connection needed to be at risk from this bug, security researchers warn.

Safend strengthens mobile security product
Computerworld Australia, Australia - Nov 7, 2006… keyboard. As the name suggests, the key logger records the key strokes, which then are used to determine username/password combinations. …

What Does Your IM Software Know About You?
NPR - Oct 16, 2006… For one, there’s a term out there that’s called key loggers. And that seems kind of obvious. Right off the bat it’s like, you know, what does a key logger do? …

The latest online scams
MarketWatch - Oct 27, 2006… malware. The malware could be a key-logger that collects information on what you’re typing and sends it back to the hacker’s computer. …

Microsoft flags Gmail as a virus
An error in Microsoft’s Windows Live OneCare security product caused it to flag Google’s Gmail service as a virus.

News: Say hello to the Skype Trojan
Say hello to the Skype Trojan

Juniper Brings Funk To Access Control (TechWeb)
TechWeb - Competing with Cisco Systems, Juniper’s upgraded Unified Access Control uses standardized hardware, software, and protocols to keep malware-infested devices from connecting to and corrupting enterprise networks.

News: Another data security bill in the works
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Bugtraq: A+ Store E-Commerce[ injection sql & xss (post) ]
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News: Cross-Site Scripting Worm Hits MySpace
Cross-Site Scripting Worm Hits MySpace

News: Say hello to the Skype Trojan
Say hello to the Skype Trojan

Sophos: Simple Malware Attacks Are Still Dangerous (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - According to the head of SophosLabs, cyber-criminals may be becoming more organized, but simple malware threats remain effective ways of stealing user information.

Time to Update Your Employee Monitoring Policy?
Computerworld, MA - Oct 16, 2006… ongoing survey on this topic, last reported in 2005 that three-fourths of American employers conducted some form of electronic employee monitoring (see study). …

Time to update your employee monitoring policy?
Help Net Security, Croatia - Oct 16, 2006You have no expectation of privacy!” So say most corporate privacy policies for employees, like a bullying reminder of the obvious. …

Safend expands endpoint security with Safend 3.1
eBCVG - Nov 6, 2006… platform and expands current features to include data encryption, blockage of hybrid network bridging, and protection from PS/2 hardware keylogger devices. …

Instant Messages Live Forever
ABC News - Nov 1, 2006… There are the obvious reasons why this was a miscalculation: The US government could be running keylogger software on all government PCs (ha!). …

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 …

Spam Scam Says You’re Fired
Techdirt - Nov 3, 2006… a link to a website supposedly for “career-counseling information,” but actually directing people to a website that automatically downloaded a keylogger program …

Virus hides in lesbian pop duo
IT PRO, UK - Oct 20, 2006… a zipped file containing pictures of the band but also include a Trojan program called Banito that allows remote code execution and includes a keylogger. …

Arsenal take on Liverpool in weekend thriller 
Fixed Odds - Premiership Football 2006

Pirates close in on title 
There was no ice, snow or rain, but instead brilliant sunshine drenching the field at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium Saturday.

Patriotism runs deep 
ONSTED, Mich. — Long before Americans began fleeing to Canada to avoid the draft, 17-year-old Fred Bahlau went there to enlist.

Dudley 20, Northeast Guilford 12 
GREENSBORO - Dudley had survived the running exploits of Northeast Guilford quarterback Kendall Blatcher once already but wasn’t too thrilled about having to face him again in the first round of the state 3-AA playoffs Friday night. (Credit: “By Jeff Carlton Staff Writer”)

Annual Veterans Day parade today 
ALBANY What is touted as the largest Veterans Day parade west of the Mississippi River begins at 10 a.m. today in downtown Albany. About 215 units will be part of the parade.

Walker leading Denver’s turnaround 
ALAMEDA - Wherever the secret switch was located, Mike Shanahan flipped it a couple of weeks ago. Shanahan has been known for his high-powered offensive scheme since he became Broncos coach in 1995. But this year’s model was more inundated than innovative through the first six games of the season.

Infocus: Hacking Web 2.0 Applications with Firefox
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Macarena Mac OS X malware - no need to panic
Proof-of-concept virus does not pose a threat.

Greynets Getting Greyer
Last year’s warning apparently went unheeded.