Monday | 6 July, 2009
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Stories by: Gregg Keizer

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    Antivirus testing outfit: Windows Security Essentials makes the grade 25/06/2009 08:04:00

    Microsoft's free security software passed a preliminary antivirus exam with flying colors, an independent testing company said today.
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    Apple patches 10 critical QuickTime bugs 03/06/2009 08:30:00

    Apple on Monday patched 10 critical vulnerabilities in QuickTime, including one that was hinted at in a Mac hacking book three months ago.
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    Facing criticism, Adobe rethinks PDF security 21/05/2009 08:21:00

    Blasted three months ago for being slow to fix a zero-day vulnerability in its popular PDF viewer, Adobe today promised it will root out bugs in older code, speed up the patching process and release regular security updates for Adobe Reader and Acrobat.
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    Microsoft delivers mega PowerPoint patch 13/05/2009 08:50:00

    As expected, Microsoft today patched a six week-old critical vulnerability in PowerPoint, the presentation maker that's part of the popular Office suite, using a single security update.
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    Spammers seize on swine flu to pitch bogus meds 28/04/2009 07:51:00

    Spammers have seized on the growing interest in news of a possible swine flu epidemic to hawk fake pharmaceuticals, security experts warned Monday.
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    One bot-infected PC = 600,000 spam messages a day 23/04/2009 07:42:00

    Some bot-infected PCs can crank out as many as 25,000 spam messages per hour, new research released Wednesday claimed.
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    Mozilla patches 12 Firefox bugs, a third of them critical 22/04/2009 12:37:00

    Mozilla Corp. on Tuesday patched 12 security vulnerabilities in Firefox 3, just days before it hopes to roll out the newest beta of its next open-source browser, Firefox 3.5.
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    Researcher wants hacker groups hounded mercilessly 22/04/2009 09:11:00

    Criminal cyber gangs must be harried, hounded and hunted until they're driven out of business, a noted botnet researcher said today as he prepared to pitch a new anti-malware strategy later this week at the RSA Conference in San Francisco.
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    Bot busts newest Hotmail CAPTCHA 19/02/2009 08:24:00

    Spammers have cracked Microsoft's latest defense against abuse of its Live Hotmail e-mail service using a sophisticated network of hacked computers that receive encrypted instructions from a central server, a security company has reported.
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    Hackers break into US gov't travel site, feed users attack code 19/02/2009 09:48:00

    A travel reservations Web site used by several US federal agencies was hacked last week, and shunted unsuspecting users to a malicious domain, according to information Computerworld has obtained.
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    Hackers jump on newest IE7 bug 19/02/2009 08:51:00

    Attackers are already exploiting a bug in Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) that Microsoft patched just last week, security researchers warned Tuesday.
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