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Ex-Microsoft manager gets 22 months for fraud

A former Microsoft employee has been sentenced to nearly two years in prison for a scam involving the company's domain names.

| News | Legal | 07/19/08 at 10:06 am |

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Firefox 3.0.1 patches Mac-only bug

Mozilla Corp. patched three critical vulnerabilities in Firefox 3.0 this week, including a Mac-specific bug reported by Apple Inc., not just two as originally reported.

| News | Security | Software | 07/18/08 at 2:56 pm |

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Facebook bug leaks members' birthday data

A glitch in a test version of Facebook's Web site inadvertently exposed the birthdays of Facebook's 80 million members this week.

| News | Security | 07/18/08 at 11:41 am |

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UnitedHealthcare insider charged in Cal data theft

A former UnitedHealthcare employee has been charged with stealing customer data in connection with a rash of identity thefts at the University of California, Irvine.

| News | Security | 07/18/08 at 11:32 am |

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