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VeriSign quarterly earnings beat estimates
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Reuters - U.S. internet security provider VeriSign Inc reported a quarterly profit that beat Wall Street expectations on the strength at its core businesses and said it was on track to meet its full-year forecast.
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Attacks Through Browsers Are Rising, Microsoft Says
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NewsFactor - Attacks on operating systems may be decreasing since last year, but attacks on applications, incidents of malware, and unwanted software are rising and account for 90 percent of vulnerabilities, according to the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report, released Saturday.
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Microsoft RPC exploit could be a packaged deal
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CNET - While Microsoft has labeled Thursday's emergency patch MS08-067 as "critical" and provided a rareout-of-cycle fix because its exploit could easily be used as worm on a compromised network, one security researcher doesn't think it will happen that way.
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Penn hacker sentenced, avoids child porn charges
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AP - A federal judge questioned why a white Ivy League student found during a computer hacking probe with thousands of images of child pornography was not charged with that crime, sparing him a decade-long prison sentence that a black convicted child pornographer faced at the same hearing.
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Study: Malware risks are growing exponentially
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CNET - A new report from security services provider ScanSafe finds that companies are at increasing risk of having employees inadvertently download backdoors and password stealers onto corporate computers from Web sites that have malicious software hidden on them.
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Treasury office faults IRS computer security
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AP - Two new IRS computer systems that will eventually cost taxpayers almost $2 billion are being put into service despite known security and privacy vulnerabilities, a Treasury watchdog said in a report coming out Thursday.
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FBI sees rise in computer crime
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 Reuters - Computer spying and theft of personal information have risen notably in the past year, costing tens of millions of dollars and threatening U.S. security, the FBI's cyber division head said on Wednesday.
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AFP - The computer systems of US presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain were targeted by hackers this summer from an unknown "foreign entity," Newsweek magazine reported on Thursday.
