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    Indian pleads guilty in overseas stock hacking scheme 08/02/2010 07:50:00

    The group of hackers compromised brokerage accounts, then pumped up the prices of stocks
    An Indian national pleaded guilty Friday to conspiracy and aggravated identity-theft charges related to an international fraud scheme to hack into online brokerage accounts in the U.S. and use them to manipulate stock prices, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
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    Security researcher IDs China link in Google hack 21/01/2010 06:22:00

    Algorithm used in Aurora code is only found on Chinese Web sites
    The malicious software used to steal information from companies such as Google contains code that links it to China, a security researcher said Tuesday
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    Study: Click fraud rate relatively low in 2009's Q4 20/01/2010 06:29:00

    The 15.3 percent click fraud rate represents a big improvement over the fourth quarter of 2008
    Click fraud, a practice that dilutes the efficacy of pay-per-click (PPC) advertising campaigns run in search engines like Google, stayed relatively low in the fourth quarter, according to a study.
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    Attack code used to hack Google now public 16/01/2010 11:25:00

    IE 6 users on Windows XP are most at risk
    The dangerous Internet Explorer attack code used in last month's attack on Google's corporate networks is now public.
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    Google hack raises serious concerns, US says 14/01/2010 07:34:00

    Secretary of State Hilary Clinton asks the Chinese government for an explanation
    A coordinated hacking campaign targeting Google, Adobe Systems and more than 30 other companies raises serious concerns, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday.
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    ISP operators among 19 arrested in cyber-fraud case 13/01/2010 07:11:00

    Suspect initially claimed that his company and clients were victims of another's actions
    The owner of a Dallas-based Internet service provider that was raided last April has been charged with participating in a conspiracy to defraud more than US$15 million from companies such as Verizon, AT&T and XO Communications.
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    Group behind Twitter hack takes down Baidu.com 13/01/2010 08:58:00

    Baidu's domain name records appear to have been tampered with, experts say
    The group that took down Twitter.com last month has apparently claimed another victim: China's largest search engine Baidu.com.
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    Hacking takes lead as top cause of data breaches 09/01/2010 10:18:00

    Business sector was the most likely to suffer a breach
    Hacking has topped human error as the top cause of reported data breaches for the first time since such tracking began in 2007, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center's 2009 Breach Report.
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    Computer of alleged Sarah Palin hacker had spyware 10/12/2009 06:48:00

    David Kernell's lawyers said the program recorded and reported personal information
    The 21 year-old college student charged with hacking former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's Yahoo e-mail account was using a compromised computer that was secretly logging and reporting information without his knowledge, his lawyers say.
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    Symantec enhances Veritas Storage Foundation 08/12/2009 02:37:00

    Security upgrades to three of its flagship products
    Symantec has announced that it has enhanced three of its flagship products – Veritas Storage Foundation, Veritas Cluster File System and Veritas Cluster Server – with support for migrating data into and out of solid state drives and the ability to reclaim unused storage. In addition, the company has enhanced the failover capabilities of Veritas Cluster File System to work with structured data in Oracle, Sybase or IBM DB2 applications.
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    Symantec upgrades for SSD, Hyper-V 08/12/2009 06:03:00

    Admins can now reclaim unused data blocks, return them to a pool
    Symantec Corp. today announced several enhancements to its storage management suite, its cluster file and cluster server system, including the ability to recognize solid state drives used in tiered storage as well as integration with Hyper-V.
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