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Game to teach children Internet safety launched at UN meet in Rio (AFP)
AFP - A game designed to teach children how to stay away from sexual predators and other dangers lurking on the Internet was unveiled Wednesday at a UN forum in Rio de Janeiro that addressed cybercrime.

Singapore lifts ban on Microsoft video game

News.com Extra: Cell phones you can’t have
Plus: Wi-Fi cafes put customer security at risk. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.

Shavlik NetChk Spyware Looks Up Threats
eWeek - And although NetChk Protect includes signatures for several keystroke loggers, it never detected Family Keylogger on one of our clients. On the bright side, Shavlik is quickly ramping up the number and scope of available signatures. During testing, we

Webroot AntiVirus with AntiSpyware and Firewall
PC Magazine - Did a good job of cleaning up malware-infested systems. Now includes firewall. Didn’t prevent malware installation as effectively as the competition. Keylogger shield doesn’t seem to do anything. Firewall didn’t fully stealth system. Firewall “anomaly

Antivirus Warning: Hype or the Matrix Reloaded?
Earthtimes - The Trojan embedded is one that is known to download additional malware, often a keylogger. How can a major well-known antivirus software package miss this kind of malicious code? It’s in the architectural design of the application. Sometimes

Read the Spyware Doctor 4.0 full review here.
PC Magazine - The protection squad also includes Keylogger Guard, which blocks keystroke logging; Network Guard, which protects important network settings; and Immunizer, a module that whacks all malicious ActiveX threats Spyware Doctor knows about. Possibly the

FaceTime Reports 279 IM and P2P Threats for Third Quarter 2007
PR Newswire - A variant of the Bubbles Worm spread through Skype contacts in mid-September, targeting teenagers that play Runescape with a keylogger to track everything a user does on the PC. Key loggers are primarily a means of identity theft. Details for these

Trojan Notebok: Cross country team tops out at prelims
Desert Dispatch - Cross country takes road trip The Silver Valley girls cross country team took a rare trip to Mt. San Antonio College for the CIF-Southern Section preliminary meet on Saturday. Junior Tanisha Thomas made it to the meet as an individual last season

Minnesota / The private lives of college students
Pioneer Press - of Minnesota this fall won the title of most sexually healthy campus from condom maker Trojan, but the data released Thursday show the U might have to give back that trophy. Among unmarried, sexually active students, 40 percent did not use a condom

Virus writer suspects bagged by police
Silicon.com - Antivirus vendors McAfee and Sophos said they believe the suspects may have been involved in writing a Trojan horse variously known as Breplibot, Rykanos and Stinx. The Trojan was sent in spam to many thousands of businesses in an attempt to infect

Researchers turbocharge Cat 7 data throughput
ITnews - New laser promises to turbocharge data Data-stealing trojan disclosure frustrates researchers, vendors, and law enforcement Web security breach lets cat out of Baghdad Embassy plans Yahoo! and Channel 7 join forces Computer Researchers Work On Auto

Is the Wireless@SG network secure enough for Internet banking?
CNET Asia - However, note that Trojan Horse viruses and other spyware applications can still result in your username and passwords being stolen regardless of the network you are on. So do take the necessary precautions to ensure your system is bug-free, running

All In 1 Keylogger V2.98 Is Out
pressbox.co.uk - This is invisible surveillance tool that registers every activity on your pc to encrypted logs. It allows you to secretly track all activities from all computer users and automatically receive logs to a desire e-mail, Network Folder (LAN) or FTP

eEye’s Blink Blocks Bogus FTC Spoof Email
Market Wire - The virus appears to install a ‘key logger’ that could potentially grab passwords and account numbers.” According to a report filed by NBC24.com, the FTC just last week released a statistical survey of fraud in the United States showing 30.2 million

KeyBoardNanny - New keylogger utility with screen shot support
pressbox.co.uk - KeyBoardNanny is a small utility that helps you monitor the typing activity of your child even while you are absent. It runs in the background and is invisible for the child. The parent can define a set of words that need to be monitored. The

Devious emails fooling even computer savy executives
WKYC - When you click the link,” explains McConnell, “what it’s trying to do is install malicious software called “key logger” software. It keeps track of every keystroke you make on your computer from that point on.” Internet security expert, Chuck Mackey

Don Parker: Don’t blame the IDS
Don’t blame the IDS

Report: U.S. tops list of spam-offending countries
U.S. sends about 28 percent of the world’s spam–more than five times as much as second-place South Korea, says security firm.

Vuln: Pioneers Session Object Denial Of Service Vulnerability
Pioneers Session Object Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Game to teach children Internet safety launched at UN meet in Rio (AFP)
AFP - A game designed to teach children how to stay away from sexual predators and other dangers lurking on the Internet was unveiled Wednesday at a UN forum in Rio de Janeiro that addressed cybercrime.

NSA cooperation: OK for e-mail, IM companies?
White House wanted immunity for phone companies over possible cooperation with NSA, but new bill also would shield e-mail, IM providers.

Data leakage prevention discussed in Sophos podcast
Graham Cluley explores the consequences of accidental data loss via email.

Bugtraq: Aria-Security.Net: MetaCart SQL Injection
Aria-Security.Net: MetaCart SQL Injection

Avada Software Collaborates with IBM to offer Turnkey WebSphere
Forbes - Infrared360(TM) is faster and easier to use than our previous MQ monitoring software,” said Hagemeyer, a customer of both IBM and Avada Software. The Infrared360(TM) Management Portal is a J2EE compliant, agentless technology for the IBM WebSphere(R

The New ABCs of Selling in a Web 2.0 World
InternetNews.com - Qualifying potential customers, one of the biggest challenges to any sales representative, can be assisted by Web site monitoring software that can segment would-be customers based on which areas of the site they’re visiting and what kind of

Infocus: Passive Network Analysis
Passive Network Analysis

Privacy experts: T.J. Maxx breach was foreseeable
Canadian privacy authorities say the retailer failed to put adequate security measures in place.

MS07-041 - Important: Vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Information Services Could Allow Remote Code Execution (939373)
Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This important security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability. This vulnerability could allow remote code execution if an attacker sent specially crafted URL requests to a Web page hosted by Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.1 on Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2. IIS 5.1 is not part of a default install of Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of the affected system.

News: Court filings double estimate of TJX breach
Court filings double estimate of TJX breach

Major Russian Malware Site Goes Offline (PC World)
PC World - One of the Internet’s most notorious malware and software exploit hubs, the Russian Business Network (RBN), has suddenly gone offline.