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Online Press Release
PRWeb - ” Our customers loved them (PRWeb releases) also! Some of our customers began to hear from local and national news organizations wanting to do stories on their businesses. We knew right away we had a valuable new service to offer our customers

Web 2.0: New risks, new rewards
ZDNet - Web 2.0, targeted malware, spyware, adware, and outbound data leakage present many challenges. To meet those challenges, a new paradigm of proactive, reputation-based security needs to be applied to Internet traffic entering and leaving the enterprise

News: Cross-Site Scripting Worm Hits MySpace
Cross-Site Scripting Worm Hits MySpace

Teen says ‘hobby’ got him into WISD computer system
Sean Erickson, a 17-year-old high school student under investigation by Waco school officials for accessing sensitive information on a district computer system, says he s not the malicious hacker some might assume. To paraphrase the tag line from the movie Hackers, the poster for which hangs in his bedroom: His crime was curiosity, he says. And he disputes Waco Independent School District officials claim that he acquired unauthorized access to one of the district s servers, saying they left it wide-open for anyone to enter. The door was unlocked, it was open and you had your giant plasma screen TV sitting there for anybody, he said.

News: Briton charged with hacking loses extradition fight
Briton charged with hacking loses extradition fight

BadBunny seen in “the wild”? OpenOffice multi-platform macro worm discovered
Worm targets Windows, Mac and Linux computers - but poses low threat.

Credit card giant name their online security advisers
The PCI Security Standards Council, the private regulatory group run by the major credit card companies, has named its first board of advisers. The 14-member board includes Wal-Mart, Tesco, and several banks including Bank of America and JP Morgan Chase. Bob Russo, general manager of the PCI SSC, said the elected board also will include seven members from the executive committee of the founders of the organisation, Visa, MasterCard and American Express. “This is our first advisory board, and the types of things we will be looking for are having them advise us on security issues in their markets and relaying modifications and refinements to the PCI standard,” Russo said.

The countdown is on
Digital Spy - Models,Gays,Bis,Transexuals,Cross dressers, people with some kind of disability maybe even some ethnic colour in their as well, your usual mix of Big Brother contestants. after watching all but BB1 you kind of know what you are going to get with this

C4 ’serious failure’ over Big Bro racism
Times Online - Channel Four breached rules and showed a serious failure to apply generally accepted standards during the Celebrity Big Brother race row, Ofcom said today. The media watchdog received close to 45,000 complaints after the 2007 series showed

Google plays mind games with personal search
ZDNet Blogs - What is the Google solution for dealing with the Big Brother scare unwittingly unleashed by its CEO in public comments last week? Unleash its Global Privacy Counsel for a double dose of Google privacy speak: Putting Users in Charge

THE BIG BROTHERHOOD
Daily Express - A NEW series of Big Brother starts on Channel 4 on Wednesday. Since it began in 2000, there have been more than 100 contestants and while some have prospered, most have returned to obscurity. The Big Brother players can enrage as well as entertain

Battery fires, rootkits and what they mean to a brand name
Network World Fusion - The Sony brand name was pounded into punch-line fodder last year by all the battery pyrotechnics — aren’t those videos fun to watch? — and the rootkit debacle that had technology types literally calling for jail time for those responsible. That’s

Start-up Robot Genius deploys new security technology
CNET News - Robot Genius , an Oakland, Calif.-based start-up, announced Monday that it has created a new suite of security products designed to combat malicious software attacks like spyware, adware, and rootkits through a threefold approach of prevention

May 2007
ZDNet Blogs - Posted by Ryan Naraine @ 1:51 pm Categories: Patch Watch , Hackers , Apple , Browsers , Rootkits , Vulnerability research , Responsible disclosure , Spyware and Adware , Botnets , Exploit code , Viruses and Worms , Data theft , Open source , Pen

Freeware, shareware, and trialware files for your PC
PC World - It produced the top score in performance tests and offers protection against rootkits and phishing Web sites. In tests performed by AV-Test.org, Spy Sweeper ranked first among the five products tested for “Spyware Specialists.” It detected 90

CA Suite Marshals Malware Forces
eWeek - we found detected threats cleaned to our satisfaction, while other threats were missed completely. eTrust ITM r8 successfully detected and removed threats from Claria, 180solutions and WhenU, as well as WideStep Security Software’s Elite Keylogger

Planet Girl is in crisis
News.com.au - He advises concerned parents to use software such as Keylogger to record what their children write on the internet. This is then emailed to parents the next day. Other filters such as Cybersitter can monitor the time spent on a particular site.

The Decline of Adware
eWeek - It used to be that the first thing a malicious web site did when it nailed you was to install 20mb of adware (usually the variety that paid commissions per install), followed by keylogger/ rootkit, and a pitch for a fake anti-spy to remove it all

Hackers hijack Windows Update’s downloader
Computerworld - Malware, particularly Trojans, which typically first open a back door to the system for follow-on code, needs to sidestep firewalls to bring additional malicious software — a keylogger, for instance — to the PC. “[But] the most common methods are

Report: Rootkits becoming increasingly complex
ZDNet - Attackers use rootkits to hide their malicious software, which can range from spyware to keylogger software that can steal sensitive information from users’ computers. The rootkits can then be used to create a hidden directory or folder designed to

Virus writers exploit Google Adwords
Economic Times - malicious links, though, takes the user to the real website but along the way they are unknowingly redirected to www.smarttrack.org, which hosts a Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) exploit that attempts to install a backdoor keylogger

Malware Writers Target Google AdWords
Enterprise Security Today - appeared to take users to sites such as the Better Business Bureau and Cars.com, but actually were stemming from a site called SmartTrack.org, according to Exploit Prevention Labs. The site running the bogus AdWords links was host to a keylogger

The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time
PC World - IE users who visited the wrong Web site could end up infected with the Scob or Download.Ject keylogger, which could be used to steal their passwords and other personal information. Microsoft patched that hole, and the next one, and the one after that

Scammers Buying Adwords Could Scare People Away From Clicking Google
Tech Dirt - Some scammers are apparently purchasing Google Adwords ads on high traffic keywords , but pointing those ads to a malware site that installs a trojan keylogger. Victims may never even know they went to a scam site, as the scammers simply pass the

Bugtraq: [CVE-2007-1355] Tomcat documentation XSS vulnerabilities
[CVE-2007-1355] Tomcat documentation XSS vulnerabilities

Cybercrooks add QuickTime, WinZip flaws to arsenal
Security holes in media player and compression software had not previously been used in cyberattacks, according to Symantec.

McDougal toughs out title defense
Bucks County Courier Times - But a lot of this was my hamstring that I hurt a week and a half ago at the Trojan Track Classic. It’s hurting a lot. I couldn’t pull my legs up, it compressed my run and my steps are off. I could feel something pop in the leg every time I

Opie and Anthony: Radio Plays Rape for Laughs
National Ledger - Even the makers of Trojan condoms were offended. They pulled their advertising, saying the show did not match their commitment to advancing “sexual health.” And yet some critics of the Imus racial slur aren’t as offended by giggling and cheering at

Europe and Islam
American Reporter - Indicting the drive of daily economic struggles and the need for a proper human life as a “Trojan horse” is a really bad example of political ethics. Undoubtedly, there must be something deeper to the West’s claim that their most basic values and

RUNNING AWAY WITH IT
Iowa City Press-Citizen - In my last race as a Trojan I can’t get beat by a Little Hawk,” Mellecker said happily. City High’s girls did about everything they could to catch West. “You couldn’t ask for anything more out of these guys,” Coleman said. “From the first event to the

Company or Topic: Computer Sciences
CNET News - New hacker techniques make these virus attacks so subtle that there is no way you would know your computer is out on the Web committing crimes. DHS, Secret Service to open computer forensic institute ( Ars Technica ) - Tuesday, March 13, 2007 The