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by Cara Garretson

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An honest new twist on Nigerian spam

There’s nothing more refreshing than honest spam.
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Federal government loses another cyber security official

The Washington Post reported over the weekend that the director of the Department of Homeland Security’s CERT division has given her resignation.
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Sun responds to critical flaw in XML libraries

Sun on Wednesday posted an alert regarding a security vulnerability in its XML libraries, which was first brought to light by security vendor Codenomicon. Sun has also made available an update to fix the glitch.
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Apple upgrades iPhone OS to fix vulnerability

Apple yesterday released version 3.0.1 of its iPhone OS, which includes a fix for a vulnerability found in the CoreTelephony component.
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Mozilla updates bug-tracking site

Coinciding with the one-billionth download of the Firefox browser, the Mozilla Project last week revamped its bug tracking and testing tool called Bugzilla.
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Spam levels reach new heights

In case you haven't opened your inbox lately, reports are saying that spam is at an all-time high.
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Microsoft releases “out-of-band” patches for IE

Microsoft on Tuesday stepped out of its normal patch-release cycle to issue a set of fixes for vulnerabilities that affect every version of Internet explorer.
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Script kiddie dedicates malware to his girlfriend

A sweet sentiment is circulating the Internet that carries a malicious payload. According to a recent Sophos blog post, there’s a piece of malware that, when opened, displays the lyrics to the love song “Honey” by Japanese band l’Arc-en-Ciel.
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Critical vulnerability hits Adobe Flash Player

Adobe last week revealed a critical vulnerability in the current versions of its Flash Player browser plug in that, if exploited, could allow an attacker to take control of another’s PC.
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Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News
Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
- mburton325

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