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They say what goes around comes around and on Friday owners of bot-infested PCs in South Korea will discover that's true.
Microsoft today said it plans to deliver six security updates on Tuesday, including two for vulnerabilities that hackers have been using for months to attack Windows and Internet Explorer.
With U.S. and South Korean government Web sites hit by distributed denial-of-service attacks this week by a botnet controlled by an unidentified attacker -- North Korea is suspected, however -- the shadowy world of botnets continues to grow unabated.
Shortened URLs, a service on many sites that turns lengthy Web addresses into shorter URLs, is rapidly becoming a popular way for spammers to reach unsuspecting readers. New analysis from Symantec's MessageLabs finds shortened URLs now account for 2 percent of all spam in inboxes (See also: Spam is More Malicious than Ever).
IBM researchers said today they have developed software that uses optical character recognition and screen scraping to identify and cover up confidential data.
Verizon Business is now offering to help businesses analyze potential security flaws in their business applications.
If attackers intent on data theft can tap into an electrical socket near a computer or if they can draw a bead on the machine with a laser, they can steal whatever is being typed into it.
While the iPhone 3GS sells like hotcakes, a chorus of complaints regarding battery life, overheating and a security vulnerability grows. Apple's playing it quiet, as usual, but that may not fly with enterprise users.
France has created a new national IT systems security agency to better defend its IT networks.
For the third day in a row a number of major public and private Web sites in South Korea have been taken off the Internet by a distributed denial of service attack.
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