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Microsoft Issues Critical Patch for PowerPoint

05/13/2009 - Microsoft released patches yesterday for its popular PowerPoint program for PCs due to a vulnerability that would allow a hacker to gain complete control of a system, although Apple users will have to wait a little longer for their patch.
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Heartland to Provide End-to-End Encryption

05/11/2009 - Heartland Payments Systems has announced that it will offer end-to-end encryption to its merchants for their payment card processing after last year's hack attack that may have compromised more than 100 million card accounts.
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Crimeware: Understanding New Attacks and Defenses

04/29/2009 - A must read for those in corporate America defending their companies against myriad cyberthreats.
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Gray Hat Hacking

04/29/2009 - The Ethical Hacker's Handbook attempts to create antihacking security professionals: it more than succeeds in its task.
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US-CERT: Phishers Dangle Swine Flu as Bait

04/29/2009 - Phishers and spammers are exploiting worldwide fear of swine flu to sell pharmaceutical products and steal personal information from anxious e-mail users, the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team reports.
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Data Breaches

04/28/2009 - The biggest cost of data breaches for businesses is lost customer relationships, according to a Ponemon Institute study. This type of loss accounts for 69 percent of breach costs, up from 65 percent in 2007 and 54 percent in 2006.
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Malicious Activity

04/28/2009 - The damage from data theft and cybercrime cost global businesses about $1 trillion in lost intellectual property and damage repair in 2008, according to the McAfee report, Unsecured Economies: Protecting Vital Information.
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Most Cybercriminals and Victims American

03/30/2009 - Cybercrime is again on the rise, and the United States boasts both the most cybercriminals and victims, according to a British paper.
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Numbers

03/27/2009 - 70 That’s the percentage of the top 100 most popular Web sites that are hosting malicious content or contain a hidden redirect, according to State of Internet Security, a report by Websense that covers the last half of 2008. That figure has increased 16 percent when compared to the first half of 2007.
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Cybercriminals Using SEO Technique to Haul in Big Bucks, Says Report

03/23/2009 - Cybercriminals have copied the popular techniques of search engine optimization (SEO) to engineer a scheme that can rake in as much as $10,800 a day, according to Finjan's Malicious Code Research Center.
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New Online Threat: Recession Malware

03/16/2009 - Cybercriminals are exploiting the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression to find new ways to steal people's identities, writes Ray Dickenson of E-Commerce Times.
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Governments Militarizing Cyberspace, Security Researcher Says

03/13/2009 - The militarization of cyberspace is fast afoot as states or their proxies begin to launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against critics and adversaries, a security researcher said at an IT security trade show in Boston.
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Worm Burrows into Social Networking Web Sites

03/04/2009 - A worm preying on Facebook accounts in December is back with a vengeance, PCWorld.com reports. But this time, it's burrowing into other social networking Web sites, including Myspace, Friendster, LiveJournal and others.
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